This is Apogee President Scott Miller's responce to the license, first posted on Blue's News:
A standard response to the madness!:-)
I must say this is just entirely too funny. And a sad commentary on how little most people understand law.
I will say that anyone who thinks we are trying to control reviews and such are jumping on a bandwagon without really giving it proper consideration. Legally, that's entirely impossible -- but then, most people know less about law than they do making ice.;-)
This policy/agreement simply allows fan sites to use our trademarks and copyright character art, etc. Most developers/publishers do not allow this at all. End of story. We are providing a way for them to do so, though. Lay people, of course, read this policy and become panic mongers. This policy is only for owners of web sites who wish to use our trademarks and copyrights, like www.3dportal.com. Somehow, someone found a link to it and of course jumps to the wrong conclusion, because...hey...it then can become a hot topic. Yippee. Don't we live in a fun society?
We might need to make it more clear that reviews are--of course!--not what concern us (nor could we legally prevent negative reviews--that's patently absurd). It's a web site using our logos next to overly foul, abusive, racist, etc. language or art. For example, we would not allow our logos to be used on a porn site.
You've clearly mistaken a political statement (Boston Tea Party) with theft (making copies of musical recordings without the permission of the artist).
I know I'm not the first to say this, and I wont be the last. Collecting copyrighted mp3z is not theft. Theft is taking something from someone, where you come out with more, and they come out with less. What we're talking about here is copyright infringement.
The mp3 movement may not be a political statement, but it makes a statement none the less. Lets just agree to say that our opinions differ on what that statement is.
How is something like John Katz's interpretation of "The Beach" a slashdot related topic, yet the fall of the stockmarket, including numerous tech stocks, remains "off-topic"?
I think this is a very on topic post, and I'm interested in what the slashdotters have to say about it.
I'm sure it won't be regular computer screens either, it'll be a 3d animated world. Why do directors thing that whenever they show a computer screen, it has to be doing something incredibly graphical? ie: the movies Hackers (gibson?) or Jurassic Park when the little girl breaks into the 'Unix' machine. All these directors want to portray an aspect of a geek or 'hacker' lifestyle, yet they push they're creative license to make us look like we're all working for ILM.
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This is Apogee President Scott Miller's responce to the license, first posted on Blue's News:
A standard response to the madness! :-)
I must say this is just entirely too funny. And a sad commentary on how little most people understand law.
I will say that anyone who thinks we are trying to control reviews and such are jumping on a bandwagon without really giving it proper consideration. Legally, that's entirely impossible -- but then, most people know less about law than they do making ice. ;-)
This policy/agreement simply allows fan sites to use our trademarks and copyright character art, etc. Most developers/publishers do not allow this at all. End of story. We are providing a way for them to do so, though. Lay people, of course, read this policy and become panic mongers. This policy is only for owners of web sites who wish to use our trademarks and copyrights, like www.3dportal.com. Somehow, someone found a link to it and of course jumps to the wrong conclusion, because...hey...it then can become a hot topic. Yippee. Don't we live in a fun society?
We might need to make it more clear that reviews are--of course!--not what concern us (nor could we legally prevent negative reviews--that's patently absurd). It's a web site using our logos next to overly foul, abusive, racist, etc. language or art. For example, we would not allow our logos to be used on a porn site.
Back to important work...
I know I'm not the first to say this, and I wont be the last. Collecting copyrighted mp3z is not theft. Theft is taking something from someone, where you come out with more, and they come out with less. What we're talking about here is copyright infringement.
The mp3 movement may not be a political statement, but it makes a statement none the less. Lets just agree to say that our opinions differ on what that statement is.
acm
just because we don't like the law doesn't give us license to break it
Did you ever study the Boston Tea Party in history class?
The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea(taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
If it weren't for our ancestors breaking "the law." We'd still be under the rule of Britain.
acm
I would pay a lot more then 50 cents to never hear N'SYNC-Backstreet Boys-Britney Speers again.
I think this is a very on topic post, and I'm interested in what the slashdotters have to say about it.
--acm
I wonder how many of the people who say this is a waste of technology / money actually own any vinyl.
Yes these tables are really expensive, but so was that Sony robo-dog and what use do you really get from that?
I'm sure it won't be regular computer screens either, it'll be a 3d animated world. Why do directors thing that whenever they show a computer screen, it has to be doing something incredibly graphical? ie: the movies Hackers (gibson?) or Jurassic Park when the little girl breaks into the 'Unix' machine. All these directors want to portray an aspect of a geek or 'hacker' lifestyle, yet they push they're creative license to make us look like we're all working for ILM.