Seems to me, then, that whoever looked at these 'randomly' shot photographs and noticed they had some artistic merit - would have some value if a 'frame' were put around them - made a creative decision that could vest copyright with them.
paying money to have sex is illegal in most places.
but not if you film it and sell tickets at a movie theater.
Actually, this is only true in Southern California. Historically, most pornographers who faced obscenity charges also faced prostitution charges. This is almost never enforced any more, but it's still the law in most of the US.
4'33" isn't silence, it's a musician or musicians, with their instruments, in a performance space, not playing. Yes, the score is a completely conscious creation. The results of each performance sound different, but so does any live performance of music.
The regulations pertaining to fair use are vague. Nothing is ever "clearly" fair use until it is judged to be so after a lawsuit. Until then, it is only not worth suing over. Yet.
In this universe we don't just "accept without thinking about it" the risk of dying in a swimming pool accident - we take positive steps against it.
And still it happens at a per-year rate equal to 9/11-type terrorism, which after instituting precautions has killed no one (in the US, anyway). Doesn't that mean that swimming pools are even far more dangerous than all the previous calculations indicate?
... in all the cases I know of those are safety-related inspections.
The DOJ has been empowered since 2005 (I think) to make surprise warrantless inspections of adult entertainment producers, although those inspections are supposed to be limited to the records the producers are required to maintain to prove that they're not child pornographers, who do not keep such records because they would prove they are child pornographers.
That's what the PATRIOT Act is FOR. Ask this question of any librarian. A library is required to turn over any patron's borrowing history, with no reason given as to why the person is being investigated, and is barred from telling anyone the request was even made.
Well, as I recall, in February legislation was "introduced to the Georgia legislature by House Republican Bobby Franklin that would make abortion the legal equivalent of murder and require miscarriages to be investigated by authorities... Authorities would be required to investigate the cause of fetal death in cases where a miscarriage occurs without attendance at a medical facility."
I've been on two juries. On one of them, note-taking was not allowed. We had to rely on whatever we remembered being spoken during the trial. This made no sense to me, but that was the rule. On the other, the judge made a big show about how he was relaxing the no notes rule due to the complexity of the case, and the court supplied notebooks and pens which were collected at the end of each day. Our cell phones were held by the bailiff only during deliberation, but we'd been instructed in no uncertain terms to turn them off during proceedings. (There were no smartphones at the time, and phone-cameras were only just starting to become common. I guess that makes this less a description of the status quo and more a snapshot of the quickly receding past.)
what's to stop police from walking through a crowd of people saying "someone here is the person we're looking for, so all of you have to be scanned." You're not *required* to submit, but the few people who do have the nerve to refuse do then get hauled off for the lengthy process.
If the pix are of underage kids, or kids who look like they might be underage, it doesn't matter how you label the folder, or even if they're fully clothed. The US DOJ will say they're child porn if they want to. This is according to US law, in other countries YMMV.
In fact, the tipping point came at an election, where electronic votes were stolen en masse, and an outcome was invalidated by the court. The irony was that DNA ID would not have prevented the fraud, but so many were clamoring for it that the outrage from the scandal tipped the balance.
Didn't this already happen? Except without enough outrage to make no never mind.
Except they don't. Not American employees anyway. They hire cheap overseas labor and give the rest to the CEO who saved the company all that money in labor expenses.
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And this has worked nearly as well as how making possession of drugs and alcohol illegal destroyed the markets for them.
Seems to me, then, that whoever looked at these 'randomly' shot photographs and noticed they had some artistic merit - would have some value if a 'frame' were put around them - made a creative decision that could vest copyright with them.
paying money to have sex is illegal in most places.
but not if you film it and sell tickets at a movie theater.
Actually, this is only true in Southern California. Historically, most pornographers who faced obscenity charges also faced prostitution charges. This is almost never enforced any more, but it's still the law in most of the US.
4'33" isn't silence, it's a musician or musicians, with their instruments, in a performance space, not playing. Yes, the score is a completely conscious creation. The results of each performance sound different, but so does any live performance of music.
I don't know if 'teenager' is defined that way in the criminal code.
Title 17 USC Section 107, described here.
The regulations pertaining to fair use are vague. Nothing is ever "clearly" fair use until it is judged to be so after a lawsuit. Until then, it is only not worth suing over. Yet.
Lou Costello called...
Also, the current Federal definition of child pornography does not require nudity.
I thought it was "asdfgh."
In this universe we don't just "accept without thinking about it" the risk of dying in a swimming pool accident - we take positive steps against it.
And still it happens at a per-year rate equal to 9/11-type terrorism, which after instituting precautions has killed no one (in the US, anyway). Doesn't that mean that swimming pools are even far more dangerous than all the previous calculations indicate?
... in all the cases I know of those are safety-related inspections.
The DOJ has been empowered since 2005 (I think) to make surprise warrantless inspections of adult entertainment producers, although those inspections are supposed to be limited to the records the producers are required to maintain to prove that they're not child pornographers, who do not keep such records because they would prove they are child pornographers.
That's what the PATRIOT Act is FOR. Ask this question of any librarian. A library is required to turn over any patron's borrowing history, with no reason given as to why the person is being investigated, and is barred from telling anyone the request was even made.
- Guy who took a leak by the side of the road?
Well, as I recall, in February legislation was "introduced to the Georgia legislature by House Republican Bobby Franklin that would make abortion the legal equivalent of murder and require miscarriages to be investigated by authorities ... Authorities would be required to investigate the cause of fetal death in cases where a miscarriage occurs without attendance at a medical facility."
So, to answer your question: yes, very possibly.
That shouldn't be too hard, since the judge that will hear the case will probably be a former RIAA lawyer.
You mean former RIAA lobbyist. No need to be polite.
I've been on two juries. On one of them, note-taking was not allowed. We had to rely on whatever we remembered being spoken during the trial. This made no sense to me, but that was the rule. On the other, the judge made a big show about how he was relaxing the no notes rule due to the complexity of the case, and the court supplied notebooks and pens which were collected at the end of each day. Our cell phones were held by the bailiff only during deliberation, but we'd been instructed in no uncertain terms to turn them off during proceedings. (There were no smartphones at the time, and phone-cameras were only just starting to become common. I guess that makes this less a description of the status quo and more a snapshot of the quickly receding past.)
Where are my mod points when I need them...
what's to stop police from walking through a crowd of people saying "someone here is the person we're looking for, so all of you have to be scanned." You're not *required* to submit, but the few people who do have the nerve to refuse do then get hauled off for the lengthy process.
Sounds like the TSA nudie scanner procedure.
If the pix are of underage kids, or kids who look like they might be underage, it doesn't matter how you label the folder, or even if they're fully clothed. The US DOJ will say they're child porn if they want to. This is according to US law, in other countries YMMV.
Does this guy have a detector that goes 'ding' when there's stuff? Well OK then.
In fact, the tipping point came at an election, where electronic votes were stolen en masse, and an outcome was invalidated by the court. The irony was that DNA ID would not have prevented the fraud, but so many were clamoring for it that the outrage from the scandal tipped the balance.
Didn't this already happen? Except without enough outrage to make no never mind.
Except they don't. Not American employees anyway. They hire cheap overseas labor and give the rest to the CEO who saved the company all that money in labor expenses.
I think it's more accurate to say that both the Republican and Democratic parties have a wide range of groups whose interests they claim to represent.
Fixed that for you.