correction: low-fidelity 128-bit AACs, which do actually sound a bit better than 128-bit MP3s. And using my cassette adapter into the stereo of my 10+ year old car, cruising down the bumpy road at 50+ mph with my AC going full blast, I'm guessing I'm really not going to miss any frequency loss from the source material.
Wait, you want them to make a player you can afford, and you still want to say "screw 'em" if you can't easily take your music to a competitor's player? Doesn't sound like you're giving them an incentive to do either.
Copyright law is old, and didnt[sic] apply to this technology. 200 years ago, no one would have thought to take a book, cut out the naughty bits, then resell it with the original work. To[sic] cost prohibitive. Plus 200 years ago no one would have cased,[sic] but I digress. Sounds like you need an editor...
Regardless, no, it wouldn't have been cost prohibitive. Both labor and materials were cheap.
I call bullshit. Technology has nothing to do with it. The founding fathers were just as much against the idea of re-setting blocks of lead type on a printing press and violating copyright of a printed book (edited or not). No difference here.
Since the copyright to each post is owned by the posters and the editors quoted entire posts verbatim, I doubt that their use qualifies as fair under US Copyright law.
No, regardless of the elsewhere mentioned clause that gives them the right to reproduce content, the items reproduced here are done in a way to promote discussion and would fall under fair use.
What would be ironic would be selectively editing portions of an individual's content contribution (from one post).
My personal favorite, that guy who played "Chainsaw" in the Mark Harmon/Kirstie Alley movie Summer School wrote a 2 man play from his correspondence that has had successful runs in LA and NY as well as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show goes to the Montreal "Just for Laughs" comedy festival this month.
Paramount Wins 'The War of the World' Rights Fri Apr 19, 2002, 7:41 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The grandchildren of author H.G. Wells lost their bid to control "The War of the Worlds" when Paramount Pictures was granted exclusive television rights to the science fiction novel in a ruling made public on Friday.
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Ira Gammerman, in a six-page decision, said the Wells grandchildren, who filed a suit against Paramount nearly 18 months ago, "are unable to sell the right to produce and distribute a television motion picture/miniseries based on the novel to Hallmark Cards Entertainment Productions LLC."
The novel earned a place in pop culture after actor Orson Welles set off a nationwide panic with his famed radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" in 1938.
When H.G. Wells died in 1946, he left all his rights and interests in the novel to his son, Frank. After his death, Frank Wells' children, Martin and Robin Wells as trustees of their father's estate, began negotiations with Hallmark to produce and distribute a TV miniseries based on the novel.
When Paramount learned of the negotiations in 1988, it asserted exclusive ownership of the television rights, based on a 1951 contract signed by Frank Wells.
The grandchildren and Hallmark as plaintiffs in the action had argued that while the 1951 contract gave Paramount "extensive motion picture rights" this was "not television rights."
But the judge ruled that "any motion pictures that Paramount has the right to produce, it also has the right to televise."
The grandchildren in their suit had attempted to draw a distinction between "motion pictures" and "television miniseries."
"Such a distinction is untenable," the judge wrote.
Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.
WotW was first published in 1898. Wells died in 1946. His heirs signed a contract in 1951. Is contract law trumping copyright law now? Shouldn't WotW be in the public domain, and thus allowing anyone to make derivative works regardless of medium?
Too bad CD Baby won't take care of the accounting when it comes to cover songs. Last time I checked the Harry Fox Agency wanted monthly statements for online sales of covers. This can be a pain in the ass for the small band who doesn't have someone doing their books full-time. Pressing discs and paying royalties is easy--make a thousand discs, pay $X to Harry Fox up front and you're covered for those discs. CD Baby is doing a great job of getting discs out there, and I think the idea of them being the middleman with the online distributors is good too. But the actual mechanics necessary to play by the books with the accountants and lawyers when it comes to distribution of covers still needs a lot of work.
With Dave's new solo album out, I doubt there's new Floyd material in the current pipeline. Would be good to hear from Publius again, though.
But really, I've always thought any numbers station (other than CBS) would be running a one-time pad. (CBS obviously recycles plots, so otp doesn't seem likely.;^)
I was a CS major at 2 different universities. One had Gödel, Escher, Bach as required reading, and the other had a required Philosophy of Science class which included Kuhn's Copernican Revolution along with Newton's Philosophy of Nature and Brecht's Galileo.
Maybe you need to find a school with a more well-rounded curriculum? They're out there...
Move the laptop to your jacket pocket (what, you don't have a Scott eVest?), use a wrist keyboard (chording or not) or a HandiKey Twiddler and you're headed in the right direction.
so, even though people have been recording things on audio cassettes for decades, now that people are doing it digitally in smaller numbers (it takes some technical knowhow), all of a sudden they want to outlaw the recorders?
Yes, that's exactly what they want to do. Their reasoning being that a digital copy is (or at least can be (with lossless compression)) as good as the original whereas an analog copy is inherently lossy. With a perfect digital copy there's no need for us to re-consume the original (for additional cost), because once we have initial access to it, we can access it just as well any time we'd like. They feel threatened by this.
This is the same "virus" that we talked about in February. link 1, link 2. The CNN (AP, really) article mentions Benjamin Daines as finding it. MacRumors forum post from Benjamin Daines dated Feb 13 whining about how he was duped by someone posting a link to said trojan. We've gone over this before. This is nothing new. Must be a slow news day at AP...
...Then, we use a digital camera to capture the image into our documentation...
As a photography student, I used to use my camera phone to document what I was doing with the 4x5 view camera--getting a shot of the setup, light arrangement, placement of the big camera's tripod in relation to the subject, etc. It was good to be able to step away from the large camera rig and take a snapshot of my setup in case I needed to be able to recreate it later. (I've always thought there was a certain level of irony in taking pictures of cameras, and perhaps moreso taking pictures of expensive cameras using a cell phone cam.)
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Burning and then ripping music costs the consumer time and blank CDs.
Time? Yes. But technically only one CD-RW is necessary to convert your entire collection, provided you have time.
correction: low-fidelity 128-bit AACs, which do actually sound a bit better than 128-bit MP3s. And using my cassette adapter into the stereo of my 10+ year old car, cruising down the bumpy road at 50+ mph with my AC going full blast, I'm guessing I'm really not going to miss any frequency loss from the source material.
there's a lot to choose from these days
indeed -- iPod, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle...
Wait, you want them to make a player you can afford, and you still want to say "screw 'em" if you can't easily take your music to a competitor's player? Doesn't sound like you're giving them an incentive to do either.
Correction: No one has stayed awake through Koyannisqatsi.
(FWIW, Powaqqatsi was a better flick, IMHO)
Copyright law is old, and didnt[sic] apply to this technology.
200 years ago, no one would have thought to take a book, cut out the naughty bits, then resell it with the original work. To[sic] cost prohibitive.
Plus 200 years ago no one would have cased,[sic] but I digress.
Sounds like you need an editor...
Regardless, no, it wouldn't have been cost prohibitive. Both labor and materials were cheap.
I call bullshit. Technology has nothing to do with it. The founding fathers were just as much against the idea of re-setting blocks of lead type on a printing press and violating copyright of a printed book (edited or not). No difference here.
Well, there's always the argument that could be made that an edit list is a derivative work, but such an argument is on much more shaky ground.
Since the copyright to each post is owned by the posters and the editors quoted entire posts verbatim, I doubt that their use qualifies as fair under US Copyright law.
No, regardless of the elsewhere mentioned clause that gives them the right to reproduce content, the items reproduced here are done in a way to promote discussion and would fall under fair use.
What would be ironic would be selectively editing portions of an individual's content contribution (from one post).
My personal favorite, that guy who played "Chainsaw" in the Mark Harmon/Kirstie Alley movie Summer School wrote a 2 man play from his correspondence that has had successful runs in LA and NY as well as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show goes to the Montreal "Just for Laughs" comedy festival this month.
That is, in fact, the current copyright length. But as written, that only applies to works created after 1978.
Too bad CD Baby won't take care of the accounting when it comes to cover songs. Last time I checked the Harry Fox Agency wanted monthly statements for online sales of covers. This can be a pain in the ass for the small band who doesn't have someone doing their books full-time. Pressing discs and paying royalties is easy--make a thousand discs, pay $X to Harry Fox up front and you're covered for those discs. CD Baby is doing a great job of getting discs out there, and I think the idea of them being the middleman with the online distributors is good too. But the actual mechanics necessary to play by the books with the accountants and lawyers when it comes to distribution of covers still needs a lot of work.
So you're saying the simple solution is to implement a Commodore 64 emulator that runs on phones? ;)
With Dave's new solo album out, I doubt there's new Floyd material in the current pipeline. Would be good to hear from Publius again, though.
;^)
But really, I've always thought any numbers station (other than CBS) would be running a one-time pad. (CBS obviously recycles plots, so otp doesn't seem likely.
I read that as Direct X10, not DirectX 10 and was wondering what the hell Vista was going to do to home automation that couldn't be done elsewhere.
I was a CS major at 2 different universities. One had Gödel, Escher, Bach as required reading, and the other had a required Philosophy of Science class which included Kuhn's Copernican Revolution along with Newton's Philosophy of Nature and Brecht's Galileo.
Maybe you need to find a school with a more well-rounded curriculum? They're out there...
In a deft move by Wal-Mart spokesman John Simley, Wal-Mart mistakenly trademarks the Simley face.
and kinda short.
No, no, Rhea Perlman is the mother of Danny DeVito's children. Danny DeVito's children are not the internet. It's easy to mistake the two though.
Move the laptop to your jacket pocket (what, you don't have a Scott eVest?), use a wrist keyboard (chording or not) or a HandiKey Twiddler and you're headed in the right direction.
so, even though people have been recording things on audio cassettes for decades, now that people are doing it digitally in smaller numbers (it takes some technical knowhow), all of a sudden they want to outlaw the recorders?
Yes, that's exactly what they want to do. Their reasoning being that a digital copy is (or at least can be (with lossless compression)) as good as the original whereas an analog copy is inherently lossy. With a perfect digital copy there's no need for us to re-consume the original (for additional cost), because once we have initial access to it, we can access it just as well any time we'd like. They feel threatened by this.
This is the same "virus" that we talked about in February. link 1, link 2. The CNN (AP, really) article mentions Benjamin Daines as finding it. MacRumors forum post from Benjamin Daines dated Feb 13 whining about how he was duped by someone posting a link to said trojan. We've gone over this before. This is nothing new. Must be a slow news day at AP...
...Then, we use a digital camera to capture the image into our documentation...
As a photography student, I used to use my camera phone to document what I was doing with the 4x5 view camera--getting a shot of the setup, light arrangement, placement of the big camera's tripod in relation to the subject, etc. It was good to be able to step away from the large camera rig and take a snapshot of my setup in case I needed to be able to recreate it later. (I've always thought there was a certain level of irony in taking pictures of cameras, and perhaps moreso taking pictures of expensive cameras using a cell phone cam.)
If I have to type in the apple, I think it is even more relevant.
You don't have to type in apple... ipod.com will redirect you there just fine.