It's in the best interests of the manufacturer to squeeze the customer as hard as it can.
Normally competition would prevent that, but I think there's a gentleman's agreement of sorts not to blow everyone up by releasing something that would break the racket for everybody.
Even a perpetual requirement for registration would help. Just keeping the public notified of potential rights would be an improvement over the current situation.
The biggest problem with orphan works is a lack of a birth certificate that says who you would owe royalties to and who has standing to sue you if you infringe.
This cloud of FUD hanging orphan works is exactly what the incumbents want. They don't want you using it as an alternative to their stuff, and they don't want the old rightsholders competing with them either.
Better idea: Require registration of copyright within 5 years after first creation, and require the registration to be renewed annually after that. 5 year grace period since last renewal, with penalties for late renewal. No renewals in 5 years = forfeiture of copyright to public domain.
Renewals require a nominal fee of ten dollars or so, but you can renew indefinitely. You OR your heirs.
The problem with orphan works is having a treasure trove of abandoned ideas left in limbo. This method would force rights holders to keep the public notified of their rights and eliminate the possibility of land mines blowing up in your face if you want to use an abandoned work for inspiration.
It is theft, just not in the sense of tangible property. What you are stealing is the author's monopoly on control over his own works.
Granted the government itself stole from us by GIVING him that monopoly in the first place, but if you infringe you're still stealing the artist's monopoly.
Orphan works are potential competitors, even if the true authors decide to release them to the public domain.
If someone dug up an orphan work it's a potential threat to the revenue streams of the current incumbents and in its in their interest to keep it buried regardless of what the original owner may think.
This is especially true when without a valid owner asserting their rights you can't even be sure who the statutory damages are even supposed to get paid to.
The climate and environment in general are a shared resource and nobody wants to be the one to hold back because they'll be the one stuck with the cost while everyone else reaps the benefits.
And unlike at the national level where a central government can FORCE you to pay for it collectively, the environment is a global resource and there is no way to enforce proper sharing of the resource.
Best from the point of view of the industry, he meant.
A monopsony is on the other side, and since the interests of the consumer and the supplier are often in opposition, a monopsony is probably one of the *worst* things for a supplier.
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It's in the best interests of the manufacturer to squeeze the customer as hard as it can.
Normally competition would prevent that, but I think there's a gentleman's agreement of sorts not to blow everyone up by releasing something that would break the racket for everybody.
Just fyi for the public, the lawsuit against Google Books was dismissed.
Google successfully used fair use as a defense and all claims were denied.
Personal profits to Google aside, they also scored a major precedent that will pave the way for future orphan works revivals.
This is probably an attempt to make Uber bear a bigger burden in terms of being forced to include the drivers on their payroll.
Ordinarily not caring about our personal security woudln't be that bad.
Except that the TSA is *also* forcing us to accept their interference in our lives if we want to have access to the borders or to the air.
If you're going to impose something on a person you should do so with minimum collateral damage and do your best to avoid inconveniencing them.
This just proves they don't care about our personal security.
It's expensive on purpose to make sure only Big Pharma can afford the R&D to begin with.
Big Pharma has the FDA set up expensive hurdles only they can afford to jump.
The FDA is in bed with big pharma and will never approve small fry drugs.
Even a perpetual requirement for registration would help. Just keeping the public notified of potential rights would be an improvement over the current situation.
The biggest problem with orphan works is a lack of a birth certificate that says who you would owe royalties to and who has standing to sue you if you infringe.
This cloud of FUD hanging orphan works is exactly what the incumbents want. They don't want you using it as an alternative to their stuff, and they don't want the old rightsholders competing with them either.
You don't have to outright rob someone of everything in order to be stealing.
Even a partial infringement of copyright steals from their monopoly of it.
A monopoly is one of the few things where it's stealing even if you share it, because a monopoly by definition means exclusivity.
Or how about we get to bust them with a recall election every time we catch them stabbing us in the back and trying to be sneaky about it?
Better idea: Require registration of copyright within 5 years after first creation, and require the registration to be renewed annually after that. 5 year grace period since last renewal, with penalties for late renewal. No renewals in 5 years = forfeiture of copyright to public domain.
Renewals require a nominal fee of ten dollars or so, but you can renew indefinitely. You OR your heirs.
The problem with orphan works is having a treasure trove of abandoned ideas left in limbo. This method would force rights holders to keep the public notified of their rights and eliminate the possibility of land mines blowing up in your face if you want to use an abandoned work for inspiration.
It is theft, just not in the sense of tangible property. What you are stealing is the author's monopoly on control over his own works.
Granted the government itself stole from us by GIVING him that monopoly in the first place, but if you infringe you're still stealing the artist's monopoly.
Orphan works are potential competitors, even if the true authors decide to release them to the public domain.
If someone dug up an orphan work it's a potential threat to the revenue streams of the current incumbents and in its in their interest to keep it buried regardless of what the original owner may think.
This is especially true when without a valid owner asserting their rights you can't even be sure who the statutory damages are even supposed to get paid to.
10Gbps is fucking fast for an internet connection. Not too long ago you'd be lucky if your LAN ran that fast, let alone your internet.
The climate and environment in general are a shared resource and nobody wants to be the one to hold back because they'll be the one stuck with the cost while everyone else reaps the benefits.
And unlike at the national level where a central government can FORCE you to pay for it collectively, the environment is a global resource and there is no way to enforce proper sharing of the resource.
If everyone does it, it's not competition.
The taxi companies already DID figure it out, that's why they lobbied for Uber to be shut down in the first place.
The taxi companies WROTE the rules that Uber is breaking and they are not fair at all.
Best from the point of view of the industry, he meant.
A monopsony is on the other side, and since the interests of the consumer and the supplier are often in opposition, a monopsony is probably one of the *worst* things for a supplier.
The techdirt article doesn't need to mention the DMCA when we already know it bans circumvention.
We are slashdot, and we're geeky enough to figure this out for ourselves.
It's possible that monopolies ensure customers can't find "better alternatives".
For my purposes, a cartel is the same as a monopoly.
How much of that bloat can be disabled through kernel configuration?
That AC could have been a hindu for all you know, so don't accuse him of making an insult.
That would be a death sentence.
Accepting the patch *was* the apology.
Buck off