The judge would just take one glance at your list and laugh you out of court. It doesn't really matter what you do on a technical level because atleast the Swedish court system works by intent, and the intent of the law is that you can't do that.
I'm pretty sure this sort of project would meet a similar fate in an American court since it would be almost impossible for you to convince the judge that your millions of melodies are infact creative works. The law system in general frowns heavily on people that try to trick it.
It's not terribly strange, for instance consider if you found a beautifully shaped rock in the forest, you'll be treated very differently depending on if you say you found it or you carved it yourself.
Now it's quite trivial to take any singlar output from such an algoritm and turn it into a creative work, the only thing you can't do is claim copyright on the sum of all outputs like the geniuses here on Slashdot keep proposing.
Yeh, most people don't stop to consider the fact that the melody invented way before they were born might still be copyrighted, that sort of stuff is ludicrous.
It's not a terribly difficult law to interpret, the Shrek movies are copyrightable, the automatically generated database of every possible song combination is not. That subsection of copyright law is pretty much specifically written to prevent that exact thing.
In general terms the law is interpreted such as that the output of your algorithm can only be counted as a creative work if the input of your algorithm was a creative work.
They serve a point though, the idea is that they want the hero to do cool moves that are outside the normal combat set, so they have to show a cinematic. However people dislike cinematics because they can't do anything, so they attempt to make the cinematic interactive through quick time.
I havn't read it yet, but I'd assume you're not actually getting a sort command, you're getting a bunch of low level commands that end up making it sorted.
3. If it takes you 12 hours to read a book from start to finish, it will take you the same time to read the eBook. On most devices that means carrying around a spare set of batteries or finding somewhere to recharge.
Doesn't E-Ink displays only require power when you change the picture, aka turn the page?
You don't need an internet connection to play Singleplayer, however they hope they made their service good enough that you WANT to be connected and the service does look pretty decent so far.
How you can find it an optional online service offensive is a fucking mystery to me.
You're reading too much into that. It's still a criminal offense, it's just that you can also sue for damages. The only file sharing cases that's ever gone into Swedish court have been criminal ones and it'll probably remain that way, the reason is quite simple. In Sweden you can only sue for actual damages(rather then punitive) so being able to sue for all of $10 per movie you prove he downloaded isn't a very good use of your time.
Yes, they might still be convicted (I really need to get around to reading the TPB ruling properly sometime) but I think it's unlikely they'll be convicted by the same argument that TBB was.
It's relevant because the law is largely designed to make commercial distribution illegal while allowing private, thus profit becomes an important part of the legal argument.
TPB wasn't convicted by a technical argument, they were convicted because the court became convinced that they actively encouraged and profited by Piracy, that makes OBT quite a different case.
There is no DMCA safe harbor because there is no DMCA equivalent law and there is fair use, could you please atleast glance at the Swedish IP law before spouting off misinformation? (Fair Use in Sweden is almost exactly the same as in the US, you can make copies of anything you own, you can share with friends and family etc)
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The judge would just take one glance at your list and laugh you out of court. It doesn't really matter what you do on a technical level because atleast the Swedish court system works by intent, and the intent of the law is that you can't do that.
I'm pretty sure this sort of project would meet a similar fate in an American court since it would be almost impossible for you to convince the judge that your millions of melodies are infact creative works. The law system in general frowns heavily on people that try to trick it.
It's not terribly strange, for instance consider if you found a beautifully shaped rock in the forest, you'll be treated very differently depending on if you say you found it or you carved it yourself.
Now it's quite trivial to take any singlar output from such an algoritm and turn it into a creative work, the only thing you can't do is claim copyright on the sum of all outputs like the geniuses here on Slashdot keep proposing.
Yeh, most people don't stop to consider the fact that the melody invented way before they were born might still be copyrighted, that sort of stuff is ludicrous.
It's not a terribly difficult law to interpret, the Shrek movies are copyrightable, the automatically generated database of every possible song combination is not. That subsection of copyright law is pretty much specifically written to prevent that exact thing.
In general terms the law is interpreted such as that the output of your algorithm can only be counted as a creative work if the input of your algorithm was a creative work.
Well, atleast Swedish copyright law states explicitly that machine generated things can't be copyrighted because they're not creative.
You mean debit cards?
They serve a point though, the idea is that they want the hero to do cool moves that are outside the normal combat set, so they have to show a cinematic. However people dislike cinematics because they can't do anything, so they attempt to make the cinematic interactive through quick time.
No, a HTML renderer is required to display HTML documents, for instance Windows help is HTML, I'm sure Linux contains built in HTML documents aswell.
That's sorta funny considering that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm is about that size with one of the best transit systems in the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Metro
I havn't read it yet, but I'd assume you're not actually getting a sort command, you're getting a bunch of low level commands that end up making it sorted.
It's more likely that they just have agreed to a different definition of evil then the rest of the world.
I think someone has read too many cyberpunk novels.
3. If it takes you 12 hours to read a book from start to finish, it will take you the same time to read the eBook. On most devices that means carrying around a spare set of batteries or finding somewhere to recharge.
Doesn't E-Ink displays only require power when you change the picture, aka turn the page?
I suspect that's mostly aimed for the Asian market where it seems really common that you pay per minute to play games.
You don't need an internet connection to play Singleplayer, however they hope they made their service good enough that you WANT to be connected and the service does look pretty decent so far.
How you can find it an optional online service offensive is a fucking mystery to me.
Atleast in Sweden you'll get your money back even if your PIN was stolen as far as I know.
You're reading too much into that. It's still a criminal offense, it's just that you can also sue for damages. The only file sharing cases that's ever gone into Swedish court have been criminal ones and it'll probably remain that way, the reason is quite simple. In Sweden you can only sue for actual damages(rather then punitive) so being able to sue for all of $10 per movie you prove he downloaded isn't a very good use of your time.
Copyright infringement is a criminal offense in Sweden.
Yes, they might still be convicted (I really need to get around to reading the TPB ruling properly sometime) but I think it's unlikely they'll be convicted by the same argument that TBB was.
It's relevant because the law is largely designed to make commercial distribution illegal while allowing private, thus profit becomes an important part of the legal argument.
I doubt we'll see those features in consumer p2p applications because they'll probably make the speed suck..
The newer bit-torrent clients support both decentralized tracking and searching.
TPB wasn't convicted by a technical argument, they were convicted because the court became convinced that they actively encouraged and profited by Piracy, that makes OBT quite a different case.
There is no DMCA safe harbor because there is no DMCA equivalent law and there is fair use, could you please atleast glance at the Swedish IP law before spouting off misinformation? (Fair Use in Sweden is almost exactly the same as in the US, you can make copies of anything you own, you can share with friends and family etc)
It would be illegal to record and publish that shout.