They may not have a choice. A company that's significantly larger than Nintendo can accumulate Nintendo stock little by little and then boom, hostile takeover.
I know there's the cost of the production of the album, the marketing, etc., but over 8 million copies, those costs are negligable.
What percent of albums even sell one million copies? What's a record company supposed to do with an artist whose album has a slim chance of even going gold?
which I believe is covered by the original BSD license.
Good news: The three-clause BSD license may include an implicit guarantee of license under applicable patents licenseable by the copyright owner: "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met" (my emphasis).
Why not sell CD-RWs with a song pre-recorded on them
From what songwriter would you license a song for producing a recording? If from yourself, how will you verify that in writing the song, you haven't unconsciously copied somebody else's song?
I move to dismiss on the ground that they've already been paid any royalty they were due
There's a compulsory mechanical license for musical works, but there's no compulsory license for recordings of those works. A major label could argue that the royalty for reproducing a CD in a CD-R is $15.00, the full retail price, or even higher for a recording that's been deliberately put out of print.
I've never heard anyone suggest that cybercafes need a public performance license for Quake
The situation with the original Quake may be different, because its executables have been GPL'd. But Quake III's clickwrap license seems to prohibit commercial exploitation. Have you actually contacted the owner of such a cybercafe about this issue?
I'm guessing that using software does not constitute performance, public or otherwise.
Then why did Congress see fit to grant an exception in 17 USC 109(e) for the use of games published as coin-op games in coin-op situations? However, this exception does not extend to "licensed content" such as characters and music not created by the owner of copyright in the game as a whole.
What they should do is focus on making a PCI card that you can insert into your PC and utilize its hardware to make it a "console" system in that it can hold the controllers and play all the games - for a minimal cost.
That's called an ATI Radeon card plus an EMS USB2 adapter. The Radeon card displays advanced ATI graphics in OpenGL and Direct3D formats. (ATI's ArtX division worked on the GameCube graphics hardware.) The EMS USB2 adapter lets you use a pair of PS1 controllers, Dual Shock controllers, Dual Shock 2 controllers, or RedOctane dance pads on any game that supports USB joysticks.
It will look like a bunch of DDR freaks on mescalin.
Why do you assume that people from former East Germany (the Deutsche Demokratische Republik) are "freaks" and use hallucinogenic drugs?
Or is a "DDR freak" somebody who runs applications that benefit from the increased memory bandwidth of double data rate SDRAM?
Or do you mean the game whose fifth mix included a song titled "Hot Limit" and subtitled "We Drink Ritalin"?
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no need to "save" work and "quit" programs
I've been burned on this TWICE. I owned a Newton PDA with an external serial keyboard. It had a cute little clone of WordPad with one fatal flaw: a user couldn't roll back a document to the last saved version. (Most word processors let the user do this by closing the document without saving changes.) Without a commit/rollback structure to protect myself against accidentally deleting the contents of a document, I lost two important documents irretrievably.
It's the same reason RAID mirroring isn't a backup.
use a turing test prevent automated registrations.
Current automated turing tests reject users behind text terminals (such as blind users on speech readers or Braille terminals) and thus do not conform to Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act. I'd assume that VA Software (Slashdot's parent company) wouldn't want to lose such an opportunity to market SourceForge enterprise source control software.
Better ISP? That's not always a reasonable answer. In the United States of America, there is generally only one cable modem ISP in a given area, and DSL isn't available everywhere because of the 4 km distance limitation. Thus, switching to another high-speed ISP could cost $200,000, which includes all the costs of moving your family and getting a job in another state.
But surely there are things for which the copyright has expired?
As the current generation of American senior citizens dies, nobody will remember the publication of any work before 1923, the threshold for perpetual copyright under U.S. law. (Canada is a bit nicer, expiring copyrights 50 years after the last surviving author has died.)
Or that were released by the author?
Until Creative Commons picks up momentum, that doesn't amount to much.
it is sufficient that my work is copy or derivative from public domain.
Mega-publisher's retained attorneys will accuse you: "Sure, you copied a Beethoven work, but a Beethoven work wasn't the only thing you copied when writing that song. Please cease and desist distribution of derivatives of our client's copyrighted work."
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Not all game companies want to be bought
They may not have a choice. A company that's significantly larger than Nintendo can accumulate Nintendo stock little by little and then boom, hostile takeover.
How would Warcraft even work on a typical console controller?
I know there's the cost of the production of the album, the marketing, etc., but over 8 million copies, those costs are negligable.
What percent of albums even sell one million copies? What's a record company supposed to do with an artist whose album has a slim chance of even going gold?
if the recording industry can sell music CDs here in Asia for $9 and still make a profit, why can't they do the same in the US?
The sound engineers and others involved with production of the album demand a higher salary in the USA than in Asia.
Have you ever considered legally licensing SCO's IP if you are going to use it?
Does SCO even offer licenses for use of SCO's patents in free software as defined by the FSF or in open-source software as defined by the OSI?
which I believe is covered by the original BSD license.
Good news: The three-clause BSD license may include an implicit guarantee of license under applicable patents licenseable by the copyright owner: "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met" (my emphasis).
patents only last for 17 years from issuance of patent, or 20 years from application for patent, whichever expires first.
Actually, it's whichever expires last according to 35 USC 154(c)(1).
But if Rep. Mary Bono has her way, she'll probably introduce a bill like this to "harmonize" patent terms with copyright terms.
Why not sell CD-RWs with a song pre-recorded on them
From what songwriter would you license a song for producing a recording? If from yourself, how will you verify that in writing the song, you haven't unconsciously copied somebody else's song?
I move to dismiss on the ground that they've already been paid any royalty they were due
There's a compulsory mechanical license for musical works, but there's no compulsory license for recordings of those works. A major label could argue that the royalty for reproducing a CD in a CD-R is $15.00, the full retail price, or even higher for a recording that's been deliberately put out of print.
And the next minute people with popcorn camp out in your front yard
And then an MPAA studio tracks you down and sues you for putting on an unauthorized public performance.
I've never heard anyone suggest that cybercafes need a public performance license for Quake
The situation with the original Quake may be different, because its executables have been GPL'd. But Quake III's clickwrap license seems to prohibit commercial exploitation. Have you actually contacted the owner of such a cybercafe about this issue?
I'm guessing that using software does not constitute performance, public or otherwise.
Then why did Congress see fit to grant an exception in 17 USC 109(e) for the use of games published as coin-op games in coin-op situations? However, this exception does not extend to "licensed content" such as characters and music not created by the owner of copyright in the game as a whole.
Are [Microsoft] getting into Broadband now?
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If ISPs could blocked outbound port 25 traffic from residential ... users
Then how will a user be able to send e-mail using both the home account and the work account?
What they should do is focus on making a PCI card that you can insert into your PC and utilize its hardware to make it a "console" system in that it can hold the controllers and play all the games - for a minimal cost.
That's called an ATI Radeon card plus an EMS USB2 adapter. The Radeon card displays advanced ATI graphics in OpenGL and Direct3D formats. (ATI's ArtX division worked on the GameCube graphics hardware.) The EMS USB2 adapter lets you use a pair of PS1 controllers, Dual Shock controllers, Dual Shock 2 controllers, or RedOctane dance pads on any game that supports USB joysticks.
I don't think 684 versions of Tetris, each with slightly different graphics, should count as distinct games.
As far as I know, the puzzle gaming community accepts that Tetris, Columns, Klax, Dr. Mario, Puyo Puyo, Zoop, Tetris Attack, and Puzzle Fighter II are distinct games. But should six versions of Tetris with different rules count as distinct games? What about a falling tetramino game where the screen rotates, zooms, and eventually shears like a TV tuned to a scrambled channel?
Put a money slot on it and put it in various public places
Licenses for public performance of a copyrighted work tend to be more expensive than licenses for distribution intended for private home viewing.
It will look like a bunch of DDR freaks on mescalin.
Why do you assume that people from former East Germany (the Deutsche Demokratische Republik) are "freaks" and use hallucinogenic drugs?
Or is a "DDR freak" somebody who runs applications that benefit from the increased memory bandwidth of double data rate SDRAM?
Or do you mean the game whose fifth mix included a song titled "Hot Limit" and subtitled "We Drink Ritalin"?
no need to "save" work and "quit" programs
I've been burned on this TWICE. I owned a Newton PDA with an external serial keyboard. It had a cute little clone of WordPad with one fatal flaw: a user couldn't roll back a document to the last saved version. (Most word processors let the user do this by closing the document without saving changes.) Without a commit/rollback structure to protect myself against accidentally deleting the contents of a document, I lost two important documents irretrievably.
It's the same reason RAID mirroring isn't a backup.
Why not just have a pair of glasses that contain the computer?
Nintendo tried this. It didn't go over very well.
use a turing test prevent automated registrations.
Current automated turing tests reject users behind text terminals (such as blind users on speech readers or Braille terminals) and thus do not conform to Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act. I'd assume that VA Software (Slashdot's parent company) wouldn't want to lose such an opportunity to market SourceForge enterprise source control software.
Now, admit it, how many times have you typed 'no@no.com' into a reply-to field, or a web-form?
Never. I typically use anonymous_coward@slashdot.org
It's a good thing that spammers are ethical!
If a spammer uses the Habeas mark, you can sue the spammer for fraud, and Habeas can sue the spammer for trademark infringement.
Find a better ISP
Better ISP? That's not always a reasonable answer. In the United States of America, there is generally only one cable modem ISP in a given area, and DSL isn't available everywhere because of the 4 km distance limitation. Thus, switching to another high-speed ISP could cost $200,000, which includes all the costs of moving your family and getting a job in another state.
Why are dependencies so farking hard to observe?
Because of cascading dependencies. One package may ultimately depend on updated versions of thirty or more other packages. That's where apt comes in.
But surely there are things for which the copyright has expired?
As the current generation of American senior citizens dies, nobody will remember the publication of any work before 1923, the threshold for perpetual copyright under U.S. law. (Canada is a bit nicer, expiring copyrights 50 years after the last surviving author has died.)
Or that were released by the author?
Until Creative Commons picks up momentum, that doesn't amount to much.
it is sufficient that my work is copy or derivative from public domain.
Mega-publisher's retained attorneys will accuse you: "Sure, you copied a Beethoven work, but a Beethoven work wasn't the only thing you copied when writing that song. Please cease and desist distribution of derivatives of our client's copyrighted work."