If you had actually read my post, you would have noticed that I speculated that it might be a trademark or trade dress infringement notice. Now it may be that Toyota is overreaching itself even on trademark law. We don't know because there are very little details. But it still remains that the DMCA only covers copyright. Futhermore, the safe harbour of responding to a DMCA notice only applies to copyright. I cannot send you a DMCA notice for something which I do not own the copyright. Looking at the actual site it not clear that copyright on the images belong to Toyota (some look like magazine photos).
A DMCA notice is not appropriate for all cases of removing an image from a website, only for those cases where it a matter of copyright infringement. So if Toyota is claiming trademark or trade dress (which we don't know), then a DMCA notice does not apply. This may be why it was not formatted as a proper DMCA notice. The site operator may be confusing a more general legal letter with a DMCA notice. Now if Toyota is claiming that it is all Toyota marketing material and claiming copyright, then they have to send a proper formatted DMCA notice.
Second if you are distributing material that infringes on trademark, you are liable under current US law, even if you or some third party owns the copyright. So if it is a trademark notice, then the site operator is already be in a whole lot of legal trouble already. I agree with you that the 3rd party uploaders may
have put the site in this situation.
The article referenced in the main post is light on details, but this is probably not a copyright notice. It is more likely a trademark notice and/or a trade dress notice. The same issue has been discussed back in January in a post about article Ford calendars. Back then, the calendar was for fund raising for a not for profit entity,and there may have been an argument that there was a loophole in trademark law. In this case, the images are being distributed for profit (the site caries advertising). If it is not copyright, then a DMCA notice would not be appropriate and a more general lawsuit would be the only remedy.
My information is that the Conservatives still see this as a trade issue. Something to trade to the US in exchange for something else. How depressing. If they push it through early enough in the mandate, they believe that the electorate will have forgotten all about it. Its hard to know if they are correct. The current bill limits what can be claimed against an individual, so there won't be any embarrassing stories about 100's of thousand dollar claims against grandmothers. The real losers will be libraries and universities.
The alleged benefit is spectrum allocation. Analog TV uses a lot of bandwidth. The digital TV uses less, and in a different band. The analog TV frequencies are also in demand since they penetrate buildings much easier than others, and have already been sold off in anticipation of the change.
Most of us just simply don't care. I would rather drop $1000 on another lens for my DSLR than on a TV that I only watch at most 2hrs any given day. My TV is only 24". My neighbor down the street would rather spend $1000 on a new tree for her back yard (her TV is only 14"). The kids two doors down would rather spend the money on new hockey equipment for the upcoming season. Another friend of mine will spend that $1000 on upgrades to his boat. Its all about priorities, and for most of the world, the priority is not home theatre.
This is because of the way in which the US system is divided. The Congress can only make law, it is up to the President and the executive branch to administer the law. The only way in which Congress can 'stop' said department is by changing the law that governs the behavior of the administration.
Canadian Ballots also have a serial Number. The ballot is torn along a perforated line from a pad that has the serial number on the part of ballot that remains on the pad. The serial number is not recorded against the voters name, but the serial numbers in the ballot box can be compared to the serial numbers that remain with the elected officials.
If you read the article, you discover that they didn't get the list at all (you have to pay for access to the list, sort of like a telemarketers tax). Instead, they just set up the phones and started dialing randomly (while spoofing the return address).
This discussion takes me way back to my early days in University before I saw the light (or rather the mediocre marks) and switched to Computer Science. As I remember from one of my political studies course (which remained surprisingly useful duiring my time in the private sector given the office politics), the phenomena of new world fundamentalism (and not just in religion) is directly tied to isolationalism. Political thought was and is a continuously evolving process. Many of the persecuted colonists were not the newer thought escaping, but the older thoughts that were escaping the new. The new world offered space where they could be by themselves with their own beliefs, free from outside influences which would challenge them. In the old world, the continuing interaction with other countries and other beliefs cause the more fundamentalist views to be moderated. Once the US left the empire, the effect became more pronounced, with the older beliefs more established and a melting pot philosophy limiting the new ideas. The remaining colonies (Canada, Australia, NZ,etc.) form a middle ground between the two. There were a lot more details but that is the core of the argument that I remember.
As for the Pope, the latest study shows that some large number (I forget the actual number and am too lazy to google for it) of Italians don't do confessional, and attendance is down all over Europe. The strongest strength for the RC is actually in the developing world.
How do you buy a book with cash off the internet? To the best of my knowledge amazon does not have a COD option. Do you have to rent a post office box just to buy a book? I suppose that the smaller book stores might be willing to order in special for you, but those stores are getting harder and harder to find.
I agree. Some of the conferences such as the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance usually have an Industrial Track. As long as it is novel and reasonably well written, it can be published. However, as a quick piece of advice to potential industrial contributors. One of the usual weaknesses of the industrial contributions is usually in the related works section of the paper. Spend a quick survey with google scholar or DBLP to check for other research/industrial papers that are similar to your own. This will also allow you to clearly state how your work is novel related to the rest of the world.
I guess it depends on the company. I used to work in the private sector under an NDA, but I was still able to publish occasionally, I just had to get permission beforehand and had to have the paper reviewed by the CEO/VP Research (It was a small company) before it was submitted. I currently collaborate with one very large software company (Under an NDA), and we are publishing the results, I just have to push the paper through legal before I can submit it.
However, once you have a BD player, are you going to buy a DVD or a BD of the latest movie. I'd hazard a guess that most folk would opt for the new technology.
It very much depends on the movie. I know that there are many movies out there that I won't even pay regular DVD prices for, and I only buy them when they hit the bargain bin. There are a few movies that I would be willing to pay a premium price, but for the rest, I would buy the DVD.
I don't think tour analogy to VHS is entirely accurate. I also stopped buying VHS tapes as soon as I had a DVD player, but that was because (a) no more rewinding, (b) smaller size and easier to store and look through (c) easy fast forward and backup [including skip] (d) subtitles and closed captioning, (e) easy access to bonus materials. The advantage of Blue Ray is not nearly as compelling
I publish to a peer reviewed academic journal or conference. In most of the conferences I'm involved in, we are always looking for more industrial contributions.
I agree completely. I don't believe that
having a smart browser component to handle error
pages from the client side using an error server is in any way innovative. I
don't believe in software patents anyways. I was just
noting that the ability of the apache server to return alternate
error pages is not prior art in this case.
The patent is not about the server serving custom error pages (which is your post), but about a client side process that communicates with a separate error server to generate the appropriate response. So I would guess it is a intended to be a plugin for a browser.
But then this is slashdot, why bother to read the article.
He holds no legal authority outside a few blocks in Rome. He is the head of a faith that teaches chastity outside of marriage, but so is the Dalai Lama.
I have a friend who had a monitor catch fire. In his words: "There was a pop, a cloud of smoke, and a little flame inside my monitor last night." It was not an old monitor either.
Most of the time, it is because the speed limit is based on sub-optimal conditions.
It is a no-brainer to most drivers that in ice or snow that you should go less than the
posted limit (and it is an offense in most jursidictions for driving faster than
conditions allow). However, other conditions are not as obvious to most drivers
such as rain (which can reduce stopping distance depending on the tire). That is
when the cops will care if you are doing more than 55.
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If you had actually read my post, you would have noticed that I speculated that it might be a trademark or trade dress infringement notice. Now it may be that Toyota is overreaching itself even on trademark law. We don't know because there are very little details. But it still remains that the DMCA only covers copyright. Futhermore, the safe harbour of responding to a DMCA notice only applies to copyright. I cannot send you a DMCA notice for something which I do not own the copyright. Looking at the actual site it not clear that copyright on the images belong to Toyota (some look like magazine photos).
A DMCA notice is not appropriate for all cases of removing an image from a website, only for those cases where it a matter of copyright infringement. So if Toyota is claiming trademark or trade dress (which we don't know), then a DMCA notice does not apply. This may be why it was not formatted as a proper DMCA notice. The site operator may be confusing a more general legal letter with a DMCA notice. Now if Toyota is claiming that it is all Toyota marketing material and claiming copyright, then they have to send a proper formatted DMCA notice.
Second if you are distributing material that infringes on trademark, you are liable under current US law, even if you or some third party owns the copyright. So if it is a trademark notice, then the site operator is already be in a whole lot of legal trouble already. I agree with you that the 3rd party uploaders may have put the site in this situation.
The article referenced in the main post is light on details, but this is probably not a copyright notice. It is more likely a trademark notice and/or a trade dress notice. The same issue has been discussed back in January in a post about article Ford calendars. Back then, the calendar was for fund raising for a not for profit entity,and there may have been an argument that there was a loophole in trademark law. In this case, the images are being distributed for profit (the site caries advertising). If it is not copyright, then a DMCA notice would not be appropriate and a more general lawsuit would be the only remedy.
My information is that the Conservatives still see this as a trade issue. Something to trade to the US in exchange for something else. How depressing. If they push it through early enough in the mandate, they believe that the electorate will have forgotten all about it. Its hard to know if they are correct. The current bill limits what can be claimed against an individual, so there won't be any embarrassing stories about 100's of thousand dollar claims against grandmothers. The real losers will be libraries and universities.
I voted against the Ontario MMP system because I didn't like it. If it was closer to the single vote German system I would have voted for it.
"Only" 2 hours?
That is on a Weekend, or when an interesting movie is available. Most days are substantially less than that.
The alleged benefit is spectrum allocation. Analog TV uses a lot of bandwidth. The digital TV uses less, and in a different band. The analog TV frequencies are also in demand since they penetrate buildings much easier than others, and have already been sold off in anticipation of the change.
Most of us just simply don't care. I would rather drop $1000 on another lens for my DSLR than on a TV that I only watch at most 2hrs any given day. My TV is only 24". My neighbor down the street would rather spend $1000 on a new tree for her back yard (her TV is only 14"). The kids two doors down would rather spend the money on new hockey equipment for the upcoming season. Another friend of mine will spend that $1000 on upgrades to his boat. Its all about priorities, and for most of the world, the priority is not home theatre.
This is because of the way in which the US system is divided. The Congress can only make law, it is up to the President and the executive branch to administer the law. The only way in which Congress can 'stop' said department is by changing the law that governs the behavior of the administration.
Actually she sued for a lot more. The judge decided that the scale of the offense only merited the minimum statutory damages.
Canadian Ballots also have a serial Number. The ballot is torn along a perforated line from a pad that has the serial number on the part of ballot that remains on the pad. The serial number is not recorded against the voters name, but the serial numbers in the ballot box can be compared to the serial numbers that remain with the elected officials.
If you read the article, you discover that they didn't get the list at all (you have to pay for access to the list, sort of like a telemarketers tax). Instead, they just set up the phones and started dialing randomly (while spoofing the return address).
Nope. At least I couldn't find any option to buy with cash from them either. Just lots of assurances on how safe it is to give them your CC number.
This discussion takes me way back to my early days in University before I saw the light (or rather the mediocre marks) and switched to Computer Science. As I remember from one of my political studies course (which remained surprisingly useful duiring my time in the private sector given the office politics), the phenomena of new world fundamentalism (and not just in religion) is directly tied to isolationalism. Political thought was and is a continuously evolving process. Many of the persecuted colonists were not the newer thought escaping, but the older thoughts that were escaping the new. The new world offered space where they could be by themselves with their own beliefs, free from outside influences which would challenge them. In the old world, the continuing interaction with other countries and other beliefs cause the more fundamentalist views to be moderated. Once the US left the empire, the effect became more pronounced, with the older beliefs more established and a melting pot philosophy limiting the new ideas. The remaining colonies (Canada, Australia, NZ,etc.) form a middle ground between the two. There were a lot more details but that is the core of the argument that I remember.
As for the Pope, the latest study shows that some large number (I forget the actual number and am too lazy to google for it) of Italians don't do confessional, and attendance is down all over Europe. The strongest strength for the RC is actually in the developing world.
How do you buy a book with cash off the internet? To the best of my knowledge amazon does not have a COD option. Do you have to rent a post office box just to buy a book? I suppose that the smaller book stores might be willing to order in special for you, but those stores are getting harder and harder to find.
I agree. Some of the conferences such as the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance usually have an Industrial Track. As long as it is novel and reasonably well written, it can be published. However, as a quick piece of advice to potential industrial contributors. One of the usual weaknesses of the industrial contributions is usually in the related works section of the paper. Spend a quick survey with google scholar or DBLP to check for other research/industrial papers that are similar to your own. This will also allow you to clearly state how your work is novel related to the rest of the world.
I guess it depends on the company. I used to work in the private sector under an NDA, but I was still able to publish occasionally, I just had to get permission beforehand and had to have the paper reviewed by the CEO/VP Research (It was a small company) before it was submitted. I currently collaborate with one very large software company (Under an NDA), and we are publishing the results, I just have to push the paper through legal before I can submit it.
It very much depends on the movie. I know that there are many movies out there that I won't even pay regular DVD prices for, and I only buy them when they hit the bargain bin. There are a few movies that I would be willing to pay a premium price, but for the rest, I would buy the DVD.
I don't think tour analogy to VHS is entirely accurate. I also stopped buying VHS tapes as soon as I had a DVD player, but that was because (a) no more rewinding, (b) smaller size and easier to store and look through (c) easy fast forward and backup [including skip] (d) subtitles and closed captioning, (e) easy access to bonus materials. The advantage of Blue Ray is not nearly as compelling
I publish to a peer reviewed academic journal or conference. In most
of the conferences I'm involved in, we are always looking for
more industrial contributions.
Sorry, I mistyped.
s/article/patent/
I agree completely. I don't believe that having a smart browser component to handle error pages from the client side using an error server is in any way innovative. I don't believe in software patents anyways. I was just noting that the ability of the apache server to return alternate error pages is not prior art in this case.
The patent is not about the server serving custom
error pages (which is your post), but about a client
side process that communicates with a separate error server
to generate the appropriate response. So I would guess it
is a intended to be a plugin for a browser.
But then this is slashdot, why bother to read the article.
He has considerable legal authority over the employment of many priests throughout the world, and he is head of the faith that teaches that any use of contraceptives inside of marriage is a sin.
I have a friend who had a monitor catch fire. In his words: "There was a pop, a cloud of smoke, and a little flame inside my monitor last night." It was not an old monitor either.
Most of the time, it is because the speed limit is based on sub-optimal conditions. It is a no-brainer to most drivers that in ice or snow that you should go less than the posted limit (and it is an offense in most jursidictions for driving faster than conditions allow). However, other conditions are not as obvious to most drivers such as rain (which can reduce stopping distance depending on the tire). That is when the cops will care if you are doing more than 55.