This wasn't "ruling in favour of the obvious", this was making a ruling about which parts of "Happy Birthday" are copyrighted, based on the technicalities of the claim.
Indeed, the song's author(s) apparently never asserted a copyright for the lyric, and the first company to do so did not seem to have gained that right from the authors. So the melody fell out of copyright long ago, and the lyric was never properly copyrighted in the first place. Now let's see if Warner has to return the monies they took for licensing a song that they didn't actually own.
That is among the worst C-level communication I've ever read from a large corporation. Is "CSO" not a real C-level executive position with staff that edits (or just writes) their execs communication? Whether or not she's a good security exec, she is a truly horrific corporate communicator.
We dropped Comcast and deployed Leaf antennas. We get a couple of dozen channels, including the four major networks and a number of sub-channels rented by movie and rerun networks (e.g., Cozi, Movies!, MeTV, Buzzr, Laff, Decades, Retro, Bounce, Escape, Grit, Get, etc.). If there's nothing on, or the reception is being interrupted by who-knows-what, we turn off the TV and do something else. Every month we enjoy not paying Comcast.
But continue thinking your MBAs are better. You keep believing delusions.
The question wasn't whether an MBA is "better," it was "who are these people looking for ultrabooks that can't lift and carry 5.47 pounds?" And the answer is, those for whom 2-1/2 pounds makes a difference in business travel, around a campus or on public transportation, particularly when the weight of the laptop is added to the weight of other items in one's bag.
Jeh Johnson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said if H-1B workers are being used to replace U.S. workers, then "it's a very serious failing of the H-1B program."
If Mr. Johnson closes his eyes all the way, he won't see U.S. workers being replaced by H-1B workers.
Even still, who are these people looking for ultrabooks that can't lift and carry 5.47 pounds??
People who travel extensively and have enough other crap in their backpack or bag that an additional 2.5 pounds makes a difference as they trudge through airports, between meetings or around a large campus. Dropping from a 5+ pound ThinkPad to a 3-pound MBA made a noticeable difference, both in combination with other things in my bag, and on its own.
Why "ride the coattails" rather than "stand on the shoulders of giants"?
Because there are economic costs and returns to many FOIA requests. Removing all exclusivity of access to the response will expose a reporter's work (that is, the request), and lower the value of the response, which will in turn remove some or all of the incentive for digging, which in turn is a net negative to society. On the other hand, giving a FOIA requester a period of exclusive access to the response retains the value while still allowing you to stand on a giant's shoulders in a timely manner.
If access is restricted, the information is being kept private.
No additional privacy restrictions are being requested on the public information, only on the specific response to a request. The publicly accessible information that is returned in the response is available to you upon FOIA request.
If the process is a "maze", that suggests a process improvement to be made, not an excuse to privatize public information.
The information isn't being made private; you are free to request a copy, rather than ride the coattails of someone else's research. Removing the tollgate is a laudable goal, but as long as it remains in place, there is demonstrable public value in providing journalists incentive for digging. And that incentive is currently exclusive access to the response to their FOIA.
I'm not overly sympathetic toward people wanted to hoard FOIA data for themselves
No one is hoarding - you are free to get the same information by running the FOIA maze yourself. They are asking that their work and expense in prying information out of the government be rewarded with exclusive access to the answer to their request. Others are free to request the same information separately. Given the toll gate in front of the information, there is demonstrable public value in giving journalists incentive for digging.
We all "own" it, we have a right to see it, and if we ask, we can.
Releasing a FOIA result only to the person who requested it does not abridge another person from asking for it. If you'd like to see the materials, you can spend the time and money to navigate the FOIA maze, rather than riding on the coattails of someone else's outlay.
Indeed, the article explains that the per-page metric will be used to divide the pool of cash that Amazon sets aside to pay authors of self-published books that are part of Amazon's lending library. This doesn't affect books that customers buy.
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I like to limit my exposure to the amount I add on
Which you can easily do by associating your Starbucks account with a virtual credit card number that has a low-dollar limit, or adding/funding/removing your credit card or other financial details.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.
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Already developing my opinion of the site's founder Julia Cordray, and will be ready on day one to post!
When will the mealworm-to-SodaStream adapter be ready so we can stop paying inflated prices for CO2?
This wasn't "ruling in favour of the obvious", this was making a ruling about which parts of "Happy Birthday" are copyrighted, based on the technicalities of the claim.
Indeed, the song's author(s) apparently never asserted a copyright for the lyric, and the first company to do so did not seem to have gained that right from the authors. So the melody fell out of copyright long ago, and the lyric was never properly copyrighted in the first place. Now let's see if Warner has to return the monies they took for licensing a song that they didn't actually own.
You can write in code with a pencil. Please reconsider pencils.
Time to update to Google's new, super sleek san serif logo.
That is among the worst C-level communication I've ever read from a large corporation. Is "CSO" not a real C-level executive position with staff that edits (or just writes) their execs communication? Whether or not she's a good security exec, she is a truly horrific corporate communicator.
We dropped Comcast and deployed Leaf antennas. We get a couple of dozen channels, including the four major networks and a number of sub-channels rented by movie and rerun networks (e.g., Cozi, Movies!, MeTV, Buzzr, Laff, Decades, Retro, Bounce, Escape, Grit, Get, etc.). If there's nothing on, or the reception is being interrupted by who-knows-what, we turn off the TV and do something else. Every month we enjoy not paying Comcast.
Don't you feel stupid wearing that tinfoil hat?
Not if you cock it at a jaunty angle.
But continue thinking your MBAs are better. You keep believing delusions.
The question wasn't whether an MBA is "better," it was "who are these people looking for ultrabooks that can't lift and carry 5.47 pounds?" And the answer is, those for whom 2-1/2 pounds makes a difference in business travel, around a campus or on public transportation, particularly when the weight of the laptop is added to the weight of other items in one's bag.
Jeh Johnson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said if H-1B workers are being used to replace U.S. workers, then "it's a very serious failing of the H-1B program."
If Mr. Johnson closes his eyes all the way, he won't see U.S. workers being replaced by H-1B workers.
Even still, who are these people looking for ultrabooks that can't lift and carry 5.47 pounds??
People who travel extensively and have enough other crap in their backpack or bag that an additional 2.5 pounds makes a difference as they trudge through airports, between meetings or around a large campus. Dropping from a 5+ pound ThinkPad to a 3-pound MBA made a noticeable difference, both in combination with other things in my bag, and on its own.
Why "ride the coattails" rather than "stand on the shoulders of giants"?
Because there are economic costs and returns to many FOIA requests. Removing all exclusivity of access to the response will expose a reporter's work (that is, the request), and lower the value of the response, which will in turn remove some or all of the incentive for digging, which in turn is a net negative to society. On the other hand, giving a FOIA requester a period of exclusive access to the response retains the value while still allowing you to stand on a giant's shoulders in a timely manner.
If access is restricted, the information is being kept private.
No additional privacy restrictions are being requested on the public information, only on the specific response to a request. The publicly accessible information that is returned in the response is available to you upon FOIA request.
If the process is a "maze", that suggests a process improvement to be made, not an excuse to privatize public information.
The information isn't being made private; you are free to request a copy, rather than ride the coattails of someone else's research. Removing the tollgate is a laudable goal, but as long as it remains in place, there is demonstrable public value in providing journalists incentive for digging. And that incentive is currently exclusive access to the response to their FOIA.
I'm not overly sympathetic toward people wanted to hoard FOIA data for themselves
No one is hoarding - you are free to get the same information by running the FOIA maze yourself. They are asking that their work and expense in prying information out of the government be rewarded with exclusive access to the answer to their request. Others are free to request the same information separately. Given the toll gate in front of the information, there is demonstrable public value in giving journalists incentive for digging.
We all "own" it, we have a right to see it, and if we ask, we can.
Releasing a FOIA result only to the person who requested it does not abridge another person from asking for it. If you'd like to see the materials, you can spend the time and money to navigate the FOIA maze, rather than riding on the coattails of someone else's outlay.
I guess you slept through that election if you think Romney outspent Obama.
It was pretty much a draw, though Obama directly controlled more of his spending.
Someone's desire to poll me doesn't translate into my requirement to be accessible or responsive.
Indeed, the article explains that the per-page metric will be used to divide the pool of cash that Amazon sets aside to pay authors of self-published books that are part of Amazon's lending library. This doesn't affect books that customers buy.
You are attacking a person's search engine based on something that has nothing to do with their search engine.
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The news stories will be three sentences in length...
But each sentence will be 200 words long, with plenty of commas and semi-colons.
...then why not complement your end-of-life Windows 7 with an older version of Chrome or FF.
Windows 7 end-of-life is January 14, 2020.
Jay Frank's Futurehit.DNA made many of these same observations six years ago.
I like to limit my exposure to the amount I add on
Which you can easily do by associating your Starbucks account with a virtual credit card number that has a low-dollar limit, or adding/funding/removing your credit card or other financial details.
I believe (from a quick Google search) that to be pardoned for a crime you first have to be convicted of that crime.
Nope. See U.S. Proclamation 4311, for example:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.