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  1. forget mdsolar, what about sr-90 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Fukushima Ocean Radiation Won't Quit
    mdsolar is (presumably) not the source of the information, but the submitter of the Slashdot article.

    It is very courageous of you to be wary of accepting information at face value that has been published in Nature.

    Can you give us any specific reason why we should be distrusting of Geoff Brumfiel's "Nature News" article "Ocean still suffering from Fukushima fallout", or is it just because you hate (Mother) Nature?

    Since you're so cynical, please riddle me this: why is it that they are talking about the bio-accumulation of Cs-137, something which apparently most fishes and humans piss out easily because it looks like potassium, but they are NOT talking about the bio-accumulation of Sr-90, which I believe builds up in fishes' and humans' bones, causes leukaemia, and should be present in about equal quantity to the Cs-137 in nuclear waste.
    Nobody ever talks about the Sr-90 bio-accumulation. Not even in relation to

    The Fukushima disaster caused by far the largest discharge of radioactivity into the ocean ever seen.

    . (Well there used to be a German punk band, but that's about it).
    Report back here what you found, please. I don't want to google it, because I intend to become very very old.

  2. Re:Choose your words more carefully by b4dc0d3r · · Score: 4, Informative · on RIAA Backs Down In Austin, Texas

    You're trying to make a point, and I understand what you mean, but you're really arguing something that's irrelevant. You are also making people focus on the wrong thing, dragging what point you were trying to make off into the weeds. When someone says "pirating is not stealing", they are not talking about what you're talking about when you say "pirating is stealing".

    If you would drop the semantics and make your point without using the words "pirate" or "steal" and instead use "copyright infringement" you would start to see how your arguments actually aren't that different from the ones you're arguing against.

    • Copyright infringement is not stealing, because they have different legal definitions, and there is nothing you can do about that.
    • That doesn't change the fact that copyright infringement can be described as "getting something you didn't pay for", and in that sense it is like stealing, but it is not the same.
    • That does not change whether copyright infringement is good, moral, legal, or should be done/not done on principal. There are different arguments for this, and that seems to be the point you are trying to make, but are distracting people from discussing.

    Also, note that US copyright law considers the financial impact of any potential infringement, among other things.

    • The purpose and character (if you are benefiting financially)
    • The nature of the work
    • The amount copied
    • The effect on market value of the work

    "Piracy" has generally been when someone copies something and sells it, like the Chinese DVDs or Windows for a dollar. Clearly you are reducing the market value, if people no longer have to pay full price. More recently, "piracy" is being used in the sense of simple copying for personal use, for situations like downloading music that you already own so you don't have to convert it to FLAC/MP3/AAC. This could be considered fair use because there is no financial benefit to you and no financial loss to the vendor (ignoring the uploading part, since those parts would be available regardless of whether you were uploading them because you got them from somewhere, so your actions are not materially contributing). So even talking about "piracy" is a muddy conversation if you don't clearly define what you're talking about.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#Comparison_to_theft
    http://www.copyright.com/Services/copyrightoncampus/basics/fairuse_rules.html

    And if anyone wants to copy this the next time someone like this pops up, i release any copyright claim on this comment and it is public domain. Copy, paste, improve.

  3. Clearance center by RevWaldo · · Score: 1 · on Viacom Vs. YouTube, Beyond Privacy

    Big media could set up a clearance center where users could upload videos of non-fair-use copyrighted material and identify where they want to post it (youtube, etc.) A small army of interns goes through the videos, determines if it steps on the toes of any of their other offerings (their own sites, DVDs, etc.) and if not, let's it go through.

    Oh, and big media would get a cut of the ad revenue, as prearranged with the video hosting sites.

    There's already precedence for this with the Copyright Clearance Center

  4. The Document Is Free, What Is He On About? by _bug_ · · Score: 3, Informative · on Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper

    The page on OUP's website that the Rust is on about is located here. As you can plainly see on the right-hand of the screen this document is available, FOR FREE, in PDF format. In fact, here's a direct link to said PDF on OUP's website.

    What Rust's complaint is about is the "Request Permissions" link under the "Services" menu on the left-side of the page. It apparently opens to a third party website which OUP, it appears, uses to calculate charges for different uses of papers published through OUP.

    My guess here is a bit of poor programming for the OUP website. The document is clearly CC and it's free to download, but the copyright.com website doesn't appear to know this, so it's providing pricing on publishing the article. Maybe OUP needs to look into this matter, but the fact remains that the paper is online, freely accessible through OUP to anyone, and clearly listed as being released under CC licensing.

    Rust is really making a lot of fuss over nothing.

  5. Re:Surely this must be a joke... by Teancum · · Score: 1 · on RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio

    In other words, if they refuse to negotiate with individual licence holders, and you want them to play your music, the only way to achieve this is to submit the music under the compulsory licence? If so, the word "compulsory" is misleading - the copyright holder *had* the option of licensing it under another arrangement, but this was rejected by the broadcaster.


    I think you understand this concept completely. Imagine if this philosophy were applied to other areas of copyright:

    A significant issue with computer software is "abandonware", with software that can be found (even with documentation) but the copyright holder can't be found. Or perhaps you need for some reason an earlier version of the software due to specialized hardware requirements (i.e. Microsoft Windows 3.1 on a 1 meg RAM single board computer). Using this philosophy that is being applied here with music, you ought to be able to simply pay a fee to an organization (such as the Business Software Alliance :) that would take the money and keep it in escrow for companies when they can be found.

    Or perhaps with the book publishing industry, where you could do a similar kind of application where a book which has been out of print can be reproduced (while it is still under copyright) by paying a simple copyright license fee to some other similar publishing body. This is done BTW in a limited context for academic purposes (called the "Copyright Clearance Center")

    I don't have a problem with a group of recording studios (and record labels) cross-licensing in an industry group as a central clearing house for copyright licensing. I do object to some of the "standard" RIAA recording contracts that are very one-sided to favor the record labels and tend to screw over the recording artists, and that the distribution of licensing fees is very lopsided and favors the major artists and studios at the expense of smaller independent artists. But all of that objection aside, where does the RIAA get off by collecting fees for and in behalf of "non-members"? This is IMHO equivalent to a church collecting "tithing" from non-believers. BTW, in Germany tithing is collected from non-believers, so it isn't that far fetched of an idea either.
  6. Re:Crazy me by drawfour · · Score: 2, Informative · on Who Owns Baseball Statistics?

    Luckily, the US goverment cannot copyright anything.

  7. Re:Forgetting the most basic right: property by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Grateful Dead vs. Archive.org

    Books can be freely copied, yet MANY readers will want to buy the official author's book, as long as it is reasonably priced.

    Books can be freely copied in the same way that CDs can be freely copied. Technically yes, legally no (whether or not you believe that this should be the case does not change the fact that it is, so please hold your flames). The library or copyshop or whoever copied the book bought a license allowing them to copy the work (with the license fees going to the author and/or publisher (usually through a collective like the ccc)). Of course just like with music and software, not everyone who does the copying has the legal right to do so.

  8. some links by 2TecTom · · Score: 1 · on What Would You Ask For in Copyright Law?

    Copyright Durations
    ...the copyright term began on the date of publication or registration, and originally lasted 28 years...
    http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/copyrig ht_durations.html

    bulk.resource.org
    Data rescued by media.org.
    http://bulk.resource.org/copyright/

    Copyright Clearance Center
    http://www.copyright.com/

    Copyright in Cyberspace
    http://www.albion.com/netiquette/book/0963702513p1 33.html

    Copyright Management Center
    http://copyright.iupui.edu/

    Copyright Website
    http://www.benedict.com/

    FAIRCOPY
    http://www.faircopy.com/

    Janis Ian
    The Internet Debacle - An Alternative View
    http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.h tml
    FALLOUT - a follow up to The Internet Debacle
    http://www.janisian.com/article-fallout.html

    Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples
    http://www.icomm.ca/macos/

    Stanford University Libraries
    http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

    U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use
    http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

    What is Copyright Protection
    http://www.whatiscopyright.org/

  9. License servers already exist. . . by werdna · · Score: 1 · on Kazaa Backs Plan To Bill P2P Music Transfers

    Check out the copyright clearance center which provides licenses for copying magazine and journal article copies. And its existence has been addressed already by the courts in a famous Second Circuit case involving Texaco.

    Most of the problems mentioned here apply, with equal force, to the on-line situation. I am simply suggesting that solutions be directed in a practical solution, using the benefits of modern encryption and communication protocols.

  10. That will be $1,250.00, please (for one year) by Lieutenant_Dan · · Score: 0, Troll · on How to Fake A Hard Day at the Office

    They want you to pay for reproducing content:

    Get a Quote!

    Wow ...

  11. IN SOVIET EKROUT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on Lessig Spins Copyright Law
    Society>Law>...>IntellectualProperty>Copyrights Arts>Music>Resources>Copyright
    Sponsored Linkse-Copyright
    Affordable copyright services
    (877) 693-2677
    www.e-corp.us
    Interest: See your message here...

    News:Closely watched copyright case goes to jury - San Francisco Chronicle - 2 hours ago
    Groups at odds over hidden copyright fees - The Globe and Mail - 11 Dec 2002
    Defense rests in ElcomSoft copyright trial - San Jose Mercury News - 10 Dec 2002
    New! Try Google News: Search news for copyright or browse the latest headlines

    US Copyright Office
    US Copyright Office is an office of public record for copyright registration and
    deposit of copyright material. ... (Legal Notices)Legal Notices. About Copyright. ...
    Description: Office of public record for copyright registration and deposit of copyright material.
    Category: Regional>NorthAmerica>...>LibraryofCongre ss
    www.loc.gov/copyright/ - 36k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

    Copyright Website
    Copyright Website - The Copyright Wizard. Copyright your online assets -
    online. ... Copyright Wizard. Register copyright for your Website - online! ...
    Description: Endeavoring to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information.
    Category: Society>Law>...>IntellectualProperty>Copyrights
    www.benedict.com/ - 23k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

    Copyright Clearance Center: Permissions Made Easy
    ... Do you want to file a copyright for your work? ... Note: copyright.com
    supplies permissions but not the copyrighted content itself. ...
    Description: Offering licensing systems that facilitate compliance with the copyright law and promote the constitution...
    Category: Society>Law>...>CopyrightServices>Licensi ng
    www.copyright.com/ - 22k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

    SUL: Copyright & Fair Use
    ... Overview of Copyright Law Copyright Management Center of the University
    of Texas System Administration Office of General Counsel. ...
    Description: A very good starting place built by the Stanford University.
    Category: Arts>Music>Resources>Copyright
    fairuse.stanford.edu/ - 5k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

    10 Big Myths about copyright explained
    10 Big Myths about copyright explained. An attempt ... Internet publication.
    - by Brad Templeton. Note that this is an essay about copyright myths. ...
    Description: Answers to common myths about copyright from Brad Templeton, former publisher at ClariNet Communications...
    Category: Society>Law>...>IntellectualProperty>Copyrights
    www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html - 23k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

    What is Copyright Protection?
    What is Copyright Protection? A brief memorandum regarding copyrights
    in general and as may be applied to the internet. Researched ...
    Description: Information about copyrights in general, and as applied to the internet.
    Category: Society>Law>...>IntellectualProperty>Copyrights
    www.whatiscopyright.org/ - 2k - Cached - Similar pages

    TITLE 17
    ... TITLE 17 TITLE 17 - COPYRIGHTS. CHAPTER 1 SUBJECT MATTER AND SCOPE
    OF COPYRIGHT; CHAPTER 2 COPYRIGHT OWNERSHIP AND TRANSFER; CHAPTER ...
    Description: Title 17- Copyrights- of the US Code in its entirity from Cornell University
    Category: Society>Law>...>IntellectualProperty>Copyrights
    www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/ - 5k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

    US Copyright Office, Copyright Basics (Circular 1)
    Circular 1. Copyright © Basics Español September 2000. Copyright
    Basics. Format Note. Table of Contents. ... WHAT IS COPYRIGHT? Copyright ...
    www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html - 78k - Cached - Similar pages

    THE UT SYSTEM CRASH COURSE IN COPYRIGHT
    Copyright Crash Course Logo with Link to Copyright Crash Course, Want to use, images?
    Want to create things with them? You need a crash course in copyright... ...
    Description: Beginner's guide to all aspects of copyright law, from the University of Texas.
    Category: Society>Law>...>IntellectualProperty>Copyrights
    www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtin dx.htm - 11k - Cached - Similar pages

    IPR Notice and Disclaimers
    ... Copyright © 1994-2002 W3C ® (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National
    de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University), All ...
    www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice - 12k - Cached - Similar pages


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