Trevithick built was was arguably the first car in 1803: a steam road vehicle with a carriage body for passengers. There were also two earlier steam vehicles, the first being a lorry (French) and the second a tractor (English). The London Steam Carriage was definitely a working car, but it crashed soon after its first run and he never built another.
Interestingly, in oe of the driest developed regions in the world, after 5+ years of drought and several years of restrictions on garden irrigation and car washing, we still pay almost a flat rate for residential water. Most of the water bill is either fixed, or based on house price, with a tiny mount based on usage (I can't remember the exact amount as I live off the mains water).
Interestingly, the pricing is so fucked up that it is economically nonsense to call out a licensed plumber (required by some insurance companies) to fix a dripping tap even if the drip is nearly a continuous flow, because the plumber will cost $100 or so, and you will never save enough water to make up for the lost interest on that money.
At my university, students retain the copyright in most cases, but assessments are required to have a cover sheet which (amongst other things) permits the assignment to be stored and used for detecting plagiarism. Interestingly, I'm not sure if it actually gives permission for the lecturers to check if your work is plagiarised, but I assume that is covered in the full policy referenced on the cover sheet.
I do not believe that most lecturers actually do use TurnItIn or similar, since in many of my courses, student submit hand-written work, and because it is very hard for someone manually checking work to spot plagiarism for undergrad courses in maths or the hard sciences, where there are mostly fairly short answer questions and the papers stay the same from year to year.
If you recall, Heinlein moved from left to right over the years. His earliest works were quite definitely left-wing (For Us, The Living supports the idea of a government handout sufficient to live on for all citizens), but he later said
I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way the government sticks its nose into everything, now.
The Robert Heinlein Interview, and other Heinleiniana (1990) by J. Neil Schulman
Furthermore, he was very much a social libertarian/progressive and was strongly against conscription (equating it to slavery).
IMO, copyright should be life or 25 years whichever is longer, and 25 years for corporate works. This is plenty of time to profit on the work, and to provide for the creator's children in the event of his death. A fixed term for both individual and corporate works would also be reasonable, but is probably not a realistic option.
I would also support the principle of some form of limited moral rights law, requiring the producer of derivative works to acknowledge their source, unless this right is disclaimed by the source. The devil is in the details for this, though, and if we are not careful, we could end up with a monster.
In.AU, there is a 2-year limit on keeping recordings. There was never a Betamax case equivalent, and it was only recently that it became legal to record TV for time-shifting purposes (although of course the law was completely ignored for years). The idea is that time-shifting is OK, but if you keep the recording for a long time you aren't really just time-shifting and should go and buy the programme. I'm not sure I agree with it, but it is a reasonable compromise between the old law and what people actually do.
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Trevithick built was was arguably the first car in 1803: a steam road vehicle with a carriage body for passengers. There were also two earlier steam vehicles, the first being a lorry (French) and the second a tractor (English). The London Steam Carriage was definitely a working car, but it crashed soon after its first run and he never built another.
Interestingly, the pricing is so fucked up that it is economically nonsense to call out a licensed plumber (required by some insurance companies) to fix a dripping tap even if the drip is nearly a continuous flow, because the plumber will cost $100 or so, and you will never save enough water to make up for the lost interest on that money.
At my university, students retain the copyright in most cases, but assessments are required to have a cover sheet which (amongst other things) permits the assignment to be stored and used for detecting plagiarism. Interestingly, I'm not sure if it actually gives permission for the lecturers to check if your work is plagiarised, but I assume that is covered in the full policy referenced on the cover sheet. I do not believe that most lecturers actually do use TurnItIn or similar, since in many of my courses, student submit hand-written work, and because it is very hard for someone manually checking work to spot plagiarism for undergrad courses in maths or the hard sciences, where there are mostly fairly short answer questions and the papers stay the same from year to year.
I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way the government sticks its nose into everything, now. The Robert Heinlein Interview, and other Heinleiniana (1990) by J. Neil Schulman
Furthermore, he was very much a social libertarian/progressive and was strongly against conscription (equating it to slavery).
I would also support the principle of some form of limited moral rights law, requiring the producer of derivative works to acknowledge their source, unless this right is disclaimed by the source. The devil is in the details for this, though, and if we are not careful, we could end up with a monster.
In .AU, there is a 2-year limit on keeping recordings. There was never a Betamax case equivalent, and it was only recently that it became legal to record TV for time-shifting purposes (although of course the law was completely ignored for years). The idea is that time-shifting is OK, but if you keep the recording for a long time you aren't really just time-shifting and should go and buy the programme. I'm not sure I agree with it, but it is a reasonable compromise between the old law and what people actually do.