Here in italy we currently have this law: if you bring criminal charges against someone and those charges are not proven then you're liable to be charged for "calunnia", and that's a felony. So private investigation by the oligopolists has been almost impossible. For example: If something like the RIAA suits was going to happen people could fight back and those proven innocent (or not proven guilty above any suspect) can claim a vast sum of money as compensation.
Unfortunately they (the oligopolist) recently lobbyed for fixing this at the european level. It has recently passed a awful legistlation that gives them investigative powers as those they enjoy in the USA. The only difference is that here (in Europe) the charges are only to be brought in by the police and not by "extorsion" agencies. The law in itself states that individuals acting without profits are extemped from the law, but it has to be seen how individual countries will accept and include this statement into the local criminal law. IPRED2 text here. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?refe rence=IP/06/532&format=HTML&aged=1&language=EN&gui Language=en
"We're profoundly disappointed with Brazil's decision to expropriate our intellectual property. They are sending a chilling signal," said Jeffery Sturchio, Merck's vice president for corporate responsibility, in a telephone interview. "We are considering our course of action but that will take some time."
That is to say that the "corporate responsibility" does not have any problem to let a few thosands people perish in order to sell pills at inflated prices to the survivors. I'd like to point out a couple of hints:
1) These pills are actually made somewhere else, not in the USA. The Industry is not selling anything "phisical", just the right to produce what unfortunately many people are needed for living.
2) If corporate ethics are based on pure profit as they show and keep showing... who guarantee us that they are not stopping the actual cure to AIDS in order to keep people dying and in need of their medications? (Guess they can safely call this people customer base)
This is something NO-ONE with a brain would stay behind: A presidential candidate willing to give you a license to use his speeches in commentaries.
Are you blind and deaf? This man is actually saying that in order to write/report about a political speech you need a copyright license! Why on earth there is need for such a statement in a supposely free nation? Are americans eager and happy to be stripped of all liberties and civil rights. You don't need to get a CC license for the right to press.
Who's behind this Obama? I once found a website for informed politics. It held the data on lobbies and founds going to candidates but unfortunately it looks like it's dead a long time ago. I can tell you from what I remember that Hillary got a waste amount of money from Hollywood in her last electoral run. Guess the same people is now after Obama.
This is something NO-ONE with a brain would stay behind: A presidential candidate willing to give you a license to use his speeches in commentaries.
Are you blind and deaf? This man is actually saying that in order to write/report about a political speech you need a copyright license! Why on earth there is need for such a statement in a supposely free nation? Are you americans all eager and happy to be stripped of all liberties and civil rights and back such a statement? You don't need to get a CC license for the right to press.
Please now flag this ad flamebait, I have to say this: IDIOTS.
I would rule out DRM in case it does not allow the creation of derivate works! To me being unable to create derivate works is a limitation of freedom to speak.
Enrico
As I am not American, neither english, please bear my poor language skills. I'm trying here to bluntly summarize a few basic economic concepts. A outsourced job is economically speaking composed of both a import of a service and a loss of consumers demand.
Outsourcing is a "import" of services for the cost that it implies. If you pay someone on foreing land then this is money spent to acquire the service equivalent to an IMPORT. Outsourcing is a LOSS OF DEMAND in this way: When a worker gets laid off it's weath decreases and it's contribution to the global amount of wealth consumption decreases ( Consumption in the equation below )
The canonical equation of Keynes for the demand of national economies is this:
The multiplier is constructed as "1/(1-c+m)" whereas c=% of income spent on internal consumption and m=% percentage of imported consumption. Usually.6c1, the highter c the better the multiplier.
So outsourcing decreases Consumption, Raises Imports and can be shown that in the long term also the "c" factor of the multiplier is affected. In the end outsourcing is very bad for national demand. And as you realize strategic choices about production are all based on demand: a poorer demand means additional job cuts.
The US are not known for their outstanding public welfare, in your pants I would call for regulation of the subject;)
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Here in italy we currently have this law: if you bring criminal charges against someone and those charges are not proven then you're liable to be charged for "calunnia", and that's a felony. So private investigation by the oligopolists has been almost impossible. For example: If something like the RIAA suits was going to happen people could fight back and those proven innocent (or not proven guilty above any suspect) can claim a vast sum of money as compensation.
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Unfortunately they (the oligopolist) recently lobbyed for fixing this at the european level. It has recently passed a awful legistlation that gives them investigative powers as those they enjoy in the USA. The only difference is that here (in Europe) the charges are only to be brought in by the police and not by "extorsion" agencies. The law in itself states that individuals acting without profits are extemped from the law, but it has to be seen how individual countries will accept and include this statement into the local criminal law. IPRED2 text here. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?ref
As you can clearly read in the CNN article here http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/05/04/brazi l.aids.ap/index.html?eref=rss_world the statements on the question are really clear:
"We're profoundly disappointed with Brazil's decision to expropriate our intellectual property. They are sending a chilling signal," said Jeffery Sturchio, Merck's vice president for corporate responsibility, in a telephone interview. "We are considering our course of action but that will take some time."
That is to say that the "corporate responsibility" does not have any problem to let a few thosands people perish in order to sell pills at inflated prices to the survivors. I'd like to point out a couple of hints:
1) These pills are actually made somewhere else, not in the USA. The Industry is not selling anything "phisical", just the right to produce what unfortunately many people are needed for living.
2) If corporate ethics are based on pure profit as they show and keep showing... who guarantee us that they are not stopping the actual cure to AIDS in order to keep people dying and in need of their medications? (Guess they can safely call this people customer base)
Agree. That's the same move I made with DVDs. Wait until DECCS and then move into the technology.
This is something NO-ONE with a brain would stay behind: A presidential candidate willing to give you a license to use his speeches in commentaries. Are you blind and deaf? This man is actually saying that in order to write/report about a political speech you need a copyright license! Why on earth there is need for such a statement in a supposely free nation? Are americans eager and happy to be stripped of all liberties and civil rights. You don't need to get a CC license for the right to press. Who's behind this Obama? I once found a website for informed politics. It held the data on lobbies and founds going to candidates but unfortunately it looks like it's dead a long time ago. I can tell you from what I remember that Hillary got a waste amount of money from Hollywood in her last electoral run. Guess the same people is now after Obama.
This is something NO-ONE with a brain would stay behind: A presidential candidate willing to give you a license to use his speeches in commentaries. Are you blind and deaf? This man is actually saying that in order to write/report about a political speech you need a copyright license! Why on earth there is need for such a statement in a supposely free nation? Are you americans all eager and happy to be stripped of all liberties and civil rights and back such a statement? You don't need to get a CC license for the right to press. Please now flag this ad flamebait, I have to say this: IDIOTS.
I would rule out DRM in case it does not allow the creation of derivate works! To me being unable to create derivate works is a limitation of freedom to speak. Enrico
As I am not American, neither english, please bear my poor language skills. I'm trying here to bluntly summarize a few basic economic concepts. A outsourced job is economically speaking composed of both a import of a service and a loss of consumers demand.
.6c1, the highter c the better the multiplier.
;)
Outsourcing is a "import" of services for the cost that it implies. If you pay someone on foreing land then this is money spent to acquire the service equivalent to an IMPORT. Outsourcing is a LOSS OF DEMAND in this way: When a worker gets laid off it's weath decreases and it's contribution to the global amount of wealth consumption decreases ( Consumption in the equation below )
The canonical equation of Keynes for the demand of national economies is this:
Demand = (Multiplier) * (+CONSUMPTION -IMPORTS +Exports -Taxation +Public Expenses)
The multiplier is constructed as "1/(1-c+m)" whereas c=% of income spent on internal consumption and m=% percentage of imported consumption. Usually
So outsourcing decreases Consumption, Raises Imports and can be shown that in the long term also the "c" factor of the multiplier is affected. In the end outsourcing is very bad for national demand. And as you realize strategic choices about production are all based on demand: a poorer demand means additional job cuts.
The US are not known for their outstanding public welfare, in your pants I would call for regulation of the subject
Enrico