Not entirely true....look at the sheet music archive.
Quoting from their webpage:
"Note: PDF files made by the SMA are copyright, and may not be sold, re-distributed, or used to derive other PDF files, without express written authorization."
I'm learning the Bach solo violin sonatas and partitas. I'm working from photocopies of a manuscript in Bach's own hand (rather sloppy by my standards), but I might well see myself in court for photocopying the photocopy, because I did not make the original photocopy myself. Such is the nature of modern copyright law.
SMA was free to make copies of works that are now in the public domain, but their copies of the orginal are "theirs" and you may not copy them without permission. This is logically absurd, but legal, because the copies are deemed to be works in their own right.
. ..even buying a print version of, for example, the complete Beethoven Sonatas is only a little more than the cost of printing.
In a perfect bound "study" edition, yes, if by cost of printing you mean my cost to print with an inkjet. For an individual performance version it's considerably cheaper to print myself.
Why do folks still buy copies of Shakespeare's plays or Beethoven's symphonies?
Because the printed editions of the works are covered by copyright.
If you wish to make your own transcription of Beethoven you can do that, because Beethoven's orginal content is in the public domain, but you cannot photocopy the sheet music you buy in the store because that is covered by copyright. Just try to enter a music competition with a photocopy of a score. Unless you have some form of proof that you didn't "steal" that score you'll get tossed on your ass for having a "stolen" copy of a public domain work.
Ain't modern copyright law grand? Publishers have found dodges to keep works that have been in the public domain for centuries effectively locked up.
This is why Project Gutenberg is now covering sheet music as well as literature. Unless people make transcriptions and donate them to the public domain, public domain musical works are not freely available to the public.
Corn could fit in there too, since even busy-workers need to eat.
I have, in fact, brought up this very point in other posts in relation to biofuels (and food is just a common name for animal biofuel). In a fossil fuel free world much of the output of producing biofuels will be consumed to produce and refine the biofuel, consumed by machines and/or human workers.
Conversely, if you buy biofuel today you can rest assured that a considerable amount of fossil fuel went into producing it. That's why the cost is as low as it is.
. ..you don't get paid if you don't generate revenue for your company.
Have you never heard of government patronage? And many IT jobs are no better, with people spending their working lives chasing problems that could be solved in minutes if attacked at the root, rather than at the symptom.
Have you never seen the posts here joking about how the screwed up nature of Windows provides lots of people with a "good" living? What they mean is a good wage, but their lives are essentially being wasted throwing rocks back and forth over a wall just to generate income.
There once was a boy who was hired to work on a construction crew. He was proud to be doing something useful and productive. The forman set him to tossing building stone over a wall.
The boy labored hard and was proud to have moved the pile of stone in record time. Surely this would show his usefullness and move up in the crew heirarchy in time.
The boy went to the forman and asked what task he should perform next.
"Throw 'em back over the wall," said the forman.
"What?" yelled the boy. "Why did you have me throw them over the wall in the first place if you were just going to have me throw them back?"
"Well," said the foreman. "You seemed a fine lad to me and I was proud to be able to offer you something to do in order that could learn to earn a wage. Perhaps someday I'll actually have something useful for you to do."
"To hell with this," the boy muttered under his breath and wandered off to find something useful he could do right now, whether it earned him a wage or not.
The moral of the story is: Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em all. Sideways.
I'd like "an operating system that actually morphed and adapted to the needs of the users instead of the other way around," but what the hell does that mean, exactly?
"I'm too lazy to customize my toolbar."
KFG
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More control of my computer by me, instead of by someone else.
From the article:
"I was all but convinced that having an operating system that could do much of my thinking for me was the way to go. .."
If you lack a brain. The core issue isn't Big Brother, but the simple ability to think, to control and to even know if the output of the computer makes any sense whatsoever.
The sense of the latter is already visibly in decline, even among the educated "elite."
The Horse's name was Physics, and they rode it well. The only difference was this: Some chose to flog the horse, some flogged themselves.
A book of poems about the development of atomic theory from WWI to the atomic bomb, although it deals mostly with the personalities involved and not the atom itself.
In 1963 everything to do with space was A Big Deal.
I remember.
They did well, but NASA would have absolutely nothing to do with women in space.
Bloody goddam shame, but then at the time it was a big deal that Jackie wore pants. There were less well known women who got assaulted for doing the same, as I was once assaulted for letting my hair grow long.
This is the reason the FBI and other "Gov" police agencies have rule that have to be followed.
If you aren't scared, you haven't been paying attention. Here's the really scarey part, the FBI no longer have to follow the rules by the simple expedient of hiring private information gatherers who are not bound by the rules.
The courts allow this, even though it seems fairly intuitively obvious that if you take Caesar's money, you are Caeser's man.
The real question is, will this evidence hold up in court?
The legitimate law enforcement agencies use illegally gained information on a regular basis.
How do they get away with it? They don't present that particular information in court. They leverage that information into admissible evidence by converting it into probable cause for a legitimate search. This is the very problem with widespread, illegal monitoring of the public and why the public might be inclined to support the practice, at least until they become the target.
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"Naturally, being a democratic and progressive government, we want to encourage the spread of free software"
Yeaaaaaaaaaah, Baby!
KFG
Not entirely true....look at the sheet music archive.
.even buying a print version of, for example, the complete Beethoven Sonatas is only a little more than the cost of printing.
Quoting from their webpage:
"Note: PDF files made by the SMA are copyright, and may not be sold, re-distributed, or used to derive other PDF files, without express written authorization."
I'm learning the Bach solo violin sonatas and partitas. I'm working from photocopies of a manuscript in Bach's own hand (rather sloppy by my standards), but I might well see myself in court for photocopying the photocopy, because I did not make the original photocopy myself. Such is the nature of modern copyright law.
SMA was free to make copies of works that are now in the public domain, but their copies of the orginal are "theirs" and you may not copy them without permission. This is logically absurd, but legal, because the copies are deemed to be works in their own right.
. .
In a perfect bound "study" edition, yes, if by cost of printing you mean my cost to print with an inkjet. For an individual performance version it's considerably cheaper to print myself.
KFG
Why do folks still buy copies of Shakespeare's plays or Beethoven's symphonies?
Because the printed editions of the works are covered by copyright.
If you wish to make your own transcription of Beethoven you can do that, because Beethoven's orginal content is in the public domain, but you cannot photocopy the sheet music you buy in the store because that is covered by copyright. Just try to enter a music competition with a photocopy of a score. Unless you have some form of proof that you didn't "steal" that score you'll get tossed on your ass for having a "stolen" copy of a public domain work.
Ain't modern copyright law grand? Publishers have found dodges to keep works that have been in the public domain for centuries effectively locked up.
This is why Project Gutenberg is now covering sheet music as well as literature. Unless people make transcriptions and donate them to the public domain, public domain musical works are not freely available to the public.
KFG
Corn could fit in there too, since even busy-workers need to eat.
I have, in fact, brought up this very point in other posts in relation to biofuels (and food is just a common name for animal biofuel). In a fossil fuel free world much of the output of producing biofuels will be consumed to produce and refine the biofuel, consumed by machines and/or human workers.
Conversely, if you buy biofuel today you can rest assured that a considerable amount of fossil fuel went into producing it. That's why the cost is as low as it is.
KFG
. . .you don't get paid if you don't generate revenue for your company.
Have you never heard of government patronage? And many IT jobs are no better, with people spending their working lives chasing problems that could be solved in minutes if attacked at the root, rather than at the symptom.
Have you never seen the posts here joking about how the screwed up nature of Windows provides lots of people with a "good" living? What they mean is a good wage, but their lives are essentially being wasted throwing rocks back and forth over a wall just to generate income.
KFG
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/ws200/weavwom e.htm
There is branch of anthropology devoted entirely to basketweaving.
KFG
There once was a boy who was hired to work on a construction crew. He was proud to be doing something useful and productive. The forman set him to tossing building stone over a wall.
The boy labored hard and was proud to have moved the pile of stone in record time. Surely this would show his usefullness and move up in the crew heirarchy in time.
The boy went to the forman and asked what task he should perform next.
"Throw 'em back over the wall," said the forman.
"What?" yelled the boy. "Why did you have me throw them over the wall in the first place if you were just going to have me throw them back?"
"Well," said the foreman. "You seemed a fine lad to me and I was proud to be able to offer you something to do in order that could learn to earn a wage. Perhaps someday I'll actually have something useful for you to do."
"To hell with this," the boy muttered under his breath and wandered off to find something useful he could do right now, whether it earned him a wage or not.
The moral of the story is: Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em all. Sideways.
KFG
I'd like "an operating system that actually morphed and adapted to the needs of the users instead of the other way around," but what the hell does that mean, exactly?
"I'm too lazy to customize my toolbar."
KFG
More control of my computer by me, instead of by someone else.
."
From the article:
"I was all but convinced that having an operating system that could do much of my thinking for me was the way to go. .
If you lack a brain. The core issue isn't Big Brother, but the simple ability to think, to control and to even know if the output of the computer makes any sense whatsoever.
The sense of the latter is already visibly in decline, even among the educated "elite."
KFG
Why do the poets of the present not speak of it?
The Horses Name was Physics
The Horse's name was Physics,
and they rode it well.
The only difference was this:
Some chose to flog the horse,
some flogged themselves.
A book of poems about the development of atomic theory from WWI to the atomic bomb, although it deals mostly with the personalities involved and not the atom itself.
KFG
You think Joe (or Jane) Businessman has any idea what ssh is? Or why on earth you're saving something to anywhere other than your hard drive?
That would depend a good deal on the basic competence of his IT staff, wouldn't it?
KFG
Instead of deleting GNAA posts, why not create another filter to prevent them?
Well, for whatever it's worth, it's the sort of thing that a -1 rating was invented for.
KFG
I no longer have my copy (a first printing), somebody, ummmmmmmmmm, stole it from me. Go figure.
The artist doesn't get paid for this. You have to steal it from "The Man" for that.
KFG
As Abby actually points out in the book, if you steal a book, the "artist" still gets paid for it.
If you care about the artists, don't steal files, steal property.
KFG
Abbie authored Steal This Book . . .
I'm such a wuss, I bought my copy. My only excuse is that I was just a kid and didn't understand the ethics of theft.
KFG
Safety yellow bike jersey: $20
Black bike shorts: $30
"Official" Cofidis Jesey and shorts: $160
Getting me to wear Cofidis Jersey: Pricel. . . well, actually; about $50k a year ought to do it.
KFG
Assuming of course this flight was aboard an American carrier and that customs official digging through his laptop was also an American.
Well, the blurb says that plane was diverted to Ottawa. That's in the Bahamas, isn't it? And the Bahamas are at least technically American, right?
KFG
The problem is that our governmnets are responding to terrorism by promoting hysteria instead.
And the next time I run a fever I'll jump in an oven.
KFG
. . .the so-called "new ice age" never had much scientific credibility; it is primarily remembered because it had a great deal of press coverage.
Ahhhhhhhhhh, how ironic this could look in another 20 or 30 years.
KFG
. . . pictures in color of Linus Torvalds, Kevin Mitnick and Bill Gates.
Oooooooooooooooo, geek porn!
KFG
Honestly, why not just delete garbage like this?
Because there is no such thing as limited free posting; and no such thing as limited liability for taking responsibility for the content of posts.
KFG
In 1963 everything to do with space was A Big Deal.
I remember.
They did well, but NASA would have absolutely nothing to do with women in space.
Bloody goddam shame, but then at the time it was a big deal that Jackie wore pants. There were less well known women who got assaulted for doing the same, as I was once assaulted for letting my hair grow long.
People are funny critters.
KFG
This is the reason the FBI and other "Gov" police agencies have rule that have to be followed.
If you aren't scared, you haven't been paying attention. Here's the really scarey part, the FBI no longer have to follow the rules by the simple expedient of hiring private information gatherers who are not bound by the rules.
The courts allow this, even though it seems fairly intuitively obvious that if you take Caesar's money, you are Caeser's man.
KFG
The real question is, will this evidence hold up in court?
The legitimate law enforcement agencies use illegally gained information on a regular basis.
How do they get away with it? They don't present that particular information in court. They leverage that information into admissible evidence by converting it into probable cause for a legitimate search. This is the very problem with widespread, illegal monitoring of the public and why the public might be inclined to support the practice, at least until they become the target.
KFG
I'd rather have private hackers do it than the government.
What color is your shirt?
KFG