Walkman is a trademark
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But I didn't think it had anything to do with the brand of walkman I was listening to.
All "walkman" players are the same brand, and this is Sony. The iPod pocket stereo system is not a Walkman product.
In fact, it very well could already infringe
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Somehow the RIAA will attack this as illegal.
This iPod activity doesn't violate RIAA members' copyrights, as U.S. copyright laws affect only sound recording performances that involve digital transmission, but it may violate the songwriters'. According to 17 USC 101, a public performance is one put on for somebody outside of family and social acquaintances. According to 17 USC 106, it takes the authorization of the owner of copyright in a musical work to authorize a public performance of the work. (Read the text of the law at Cornell's U.S. Code archive.) Songwriters and their publishers typically license performance rights through organizations such as BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC.
Mothers humming to their babies will be given tit-twisters as punishment unless they pay ASCAP fees.
This, on the other hand, is within friends and family and thus doesn't fall within the performance rights organizations' powers.
"Real user friendliness" with respect to mass-market peripherals requires the support of the manufacturer of each peripheral. Until we see a SANE driver next to the TWAIN driver on the CD that comes with a scanner or camera, there is little that the community can do, especially if a manufacturer refuses to disclose its peripherals' wire protocols to the community.
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if you can get proximitron or privoxy to insert javascript code into a jpg
I could do it if I knew proxomitron's or privoxy's architecture. Just rewrite links to images (as opposed to inlining of images) to wrap them in an HTML page.
No. Someone at the local college tried and discovered that Fort Wayne, Indiana, has no frequencies available in the FM band for a general-interest campus radio station. There is one college-operated radio station in the area, but it's operated by Taylor University (a Bible college) and plays gospel music.
The whack-a-hamster game from one of those videos seems to be a clone of an old PC game that I wrote in 2000 called Hampsterdeath. Not that I'm prepared to sue or anything. (You may notice that the Hampsterdeath download url is down; this may just be the circular Tuit I need to get freepuzzlearena back up on the net.)
Theft is a Criminal act. Copyright infringement is a Civil act.
True, but copyright infringement is also a crime (17 USC 506).
Her violation is not worth $165 million. Anyone who suggests that it is is a fucking idiot.
It took half of Congress to enact a law that provided for such damages. You just called at least half of Congress "fucking idiots." Not that I necessarily disagree *cough*Bono Act*cough*DMCA*cough*.
Especially since [criminal copyright infringement and larceny] carry very different punishments.
From what one would read on Slashdot, the typical punishment for petty larceny in most states is less harsh than the punishment for criminal copyright infringement in the U.S.
How can a person learn about non-RIAA music while inside a moving vehicle? Clear Channel seems to have a large captive audience in people driving to and from work, and Clear Channel's so-called "independent promotion" agency charges big bucks for playlist adds that only the larger RIAA member labels can typically afford.
Look at what happened when Hotmail, a service that provides free e-mail accounts, got bought. Microsoft turned it into a pay service and cut down what had been available to free customers. For example, free customers are more strictly limited in how much they can hold in their inboxes and how large of attachments they can send or receive. Others seem to agree that Microsoft ruined Hotmail.
You've made your point with respect to copyright; there seems to have been no copying. But the trademark angle remains open.
In fact, if I had seen the video before it was widely distributed under the name "Star Wars Kid,"
Are you sure that Fox and Lucasfilm won't be able to argue in court that distributing a video file under the name "Star Wars Kid," with the content you describe, constitutes infringement of Lucasfilm's rights in the name "STAR WARS"?
And then the espionage-ware detects this as well and phones home only when the title of the frontmost window contains "Opera", "Mozilla", or "Microsoft Internet Explorer".
Why do the corporate firewalls not block out-bound traffic to all ports but a select few HTTP/SSL ect ?
If the espionage-ware phones home using conforming HTTPS on port 443, and the firewall's administrator does not know which IP addresses the espionage-ware can phone home to, how can the firewall block it?
The creator wants us to love Him first and our neighbors second, and those who love their neighbors will share the software. This is true whether you belong to the Church of Christ or the Church of Emacs.
It's up to the [author] what they do with their source code.
The rationale for the GNU project is that while it is up to the author to determine the distribution terms for a copyrighted program, some such determinations run against the common good.
I've read a book by linguist Mario Pei which claims that until the unification of Italy, people on the Italian peninsula considered their languages to be i volgare, the dialects of Vulgar Latin. So when exactly did Latin "die"? Did it "die" when the Tuscan dialect was chosen to be renamed Italian? Have we defined "Latin" yet?
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But I didn't think it had anything to do with the brand of walkman I was listening to.
All "walkman" players are the same brand, and this is Sony. The iPod pocket stereo system is not a Walkman product.
Somehow the RIAA will attack this as illegal.
This iPod activity doesn't violate RIAA members' copyrights, as U.S. copyright laws affect only sound recording performances that involve digital transmission, but it may violate the songwriters'. According to 17 USC 101, a public performance is one put on for somebody outside of family and social acquaintances. According to 17 USC 106, it takes the authorization of the owner of copyright in a musical work to authorize a public performance of the work. (Read the text of the law at Cornell's U.S. Code archive.) Songwriters and their publishers typically license performance rights through organizations such as BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC.
Mothers humming to their babies will be given tit-twisters as punishment unless they pay ASCAP fees.
This, on the other hand, is within friends and family and thus doesn't fall within the performance rights organizations' powers.
"Real user friendliness" with respect to mass-market peripherals requires the support of the manufacturer of each peripheral. Until we see a SANE driver next to the TWAIN driver on the CD that comes with a scanner or camera, there is little that the community can do, especially if a manufacturer refuses to disclose its peripherals' wire protocols to the community.
When you want to select text on a page using this script: Put the button down and make a circle, then select the text. This gesture system interprets making a circle to cancel the gesture and restore the default behavior.
if you can get proximitron or privoxy to insert javascript code into a jpg
I could do it if I knew proxomitron's or privoxy's architecture. Just rewrite links to images (as opposed to inlining of images) to wrap them in an HTML page.
No. Someone at the local college tried and discovered that Fort Wayne, Indiana, has no frequencies available in the FM band for a general-interest campus radio station. There is one college-operated radio station in the area, but it's operated by Taylor University (a Bible college) and plays gospel music.
Tuit taken; get freepuzzlearena
The whack-a-hamster game from one of those videos seems to be a clone of an old PC game that I wrote in 2000 called Hampsterdeath. Not that I'm prepared to sue or anything. (You may notice that the Hampsterdeath download url is down; this may just be the circular Tuit I need to get freepuzzlearena back up on the net.)
Theft is a Criminal act. Copyright infringement is a Civil act.
True, but copyright infringement is also a crime (17 USC 506).
Her violation is not worth $165 million. Anyone who suggests that it is is a fucking idiot.
It took half of Congress to enact a law that provided for such damages. You just called at least half of Congress "fucking idiots." Not that I necessarily disagree *cough*Bono Act*cough*DMCA*cough*.
Especially since [criminal copyright infringement and larceny] carry very different punishments.
From what one would read on Slashdot, the typical punishment for petty larceny in most states is less harsh than the punishment for criminal copyright infringement in the U.S.
How can a person learn about non-RIAA music while inside a moving vehicle? Clear Channel seems to have a large captive audience in people driving to and from work, and Clear Channel's so-called "independent promotion" agency charges big bucks for playlist adds that only the larger RIAA member labels can typically afford.
Does the US operate that quickly?
Look at how long this SCO malarkey has been going on.
Secondly, DVDs being distributed?
I'm guessing "DVDs distributed" refers to copies distributed e.g. to Academy critics for Oscar consideration.
Lucasweasels could argue that the "Star Wars Kid" video competes remotely with the official movies' trailers.
Look at what happened when Hotmail, a service that provides free e-mail accounts, got bought. Microsoft turned it into a pay service and cut down what had been available to free customers. For example, free customers are more strictly limited in how much they can hold in their inboxes and how large of attachments they can send or receive. Others seem to agree that Microsoft ruined Hotmail.
You've made your point with respect to copyright; there seems to have been no copying. But the trademark angle remains open.
In fact, if I had seen the video before it was widely distributed under the name "Star Wars Kid,"
Are you sure that Fox and Lucasfilm won't be able to argue in court that distributing a video file under the name "Star Wars Kid," with the content you describe, constitutes infringement of Lucasfilm's rights in the name "STAR WARS"?
And then the espionage-ware detects this as well and phones home only when the title of the frontmost window contains "Opera", "Mozilla", or "Microsoft Internet Explorer".
Why do the corporate firewalls not block out-bound traffic to all ports but a select few HTTP/SSL ect ?
If the espionage-ware phones home using conforming HTTPS on port 443, and the firewall's administrator does not know which IP addresses the espionage-ware can phone home to, how can the firewall block it?
The USA does not produce Biological Weapons
Are you claiming that McDonald's Corporation is not an American company?
I used P2P to get that Star Wars Kid Movie.
How are you sure that distributing the Star Wars Kid Movie doesn't infringe any of Lucasfilm's copyrights or trademarks?
It's up to the creator
The creator wants us to love Him first and our neighbors second, and those who love their neighbors will share the software. This is true whether you belong to the Church of Christ or the Church of Emacs.
You meant "author."
It's up to the [author] what they do with their source code.
The rationale for the GNU project is that while it is up to the author to determine the distribution terms for a copyrighted program, some such determinations run against the common good.
Free firmware? Hey, it could happen.
Unfortunately, not all district court judges are that astute.
I've read a book by linguist Mario Pei which claims that until the unification of Italy, people on the Italian peninsula considered their languages to be i volgare, the dialects of Vulgar Latin. So when exactly did Latin "die"? Did it "die" when the Tuscan dialect was chosen to be renamed Italian? Have we defined "Latin" yet?
It looks more like Freenet or (the defunct) MojoNation to me, except without the constraints imposed by an anonymity guarantee.