There's a *claim* of a copyright in your Poe edition.
I've read Feist. There needs to be creative content for there to be copyright. AN alphabetical listing of names, addresses and phone numbers lacked sufficient originality to be copyrightable. In this case, "selection and arrangement" of the names on the page and the act of typesetting provided no creative content.
Similarly with your Poe edition, the typesetting and pagination gets them nothing. Even the selection of stories and ordering of them provides such a minimal creative content that any such copyright is non existant.
WHat is copyrightable is any introductions and or commentary on the stories in your edition. But not the stories themselves.
Just because there's acopyright notice, dosn't mean that anything included is actually copyrightable. The original greek of the Iliad is public domain. Translation published in the US prior to 1923 are public domain. A contemporary translation is copyrightable.
We're taking scans of court documents, not transalations of a literary work.
Most of the filings are PDFs which can be pulled off of PACER. Some filings are paper only. Frank Sorenson went down to the courtroom and paid for copies which he scanned and put up on the web as images stuffed in PDFs -- not OCRed.
I maintain that no protectable expression was added in scanning a public record into an image file.
No added footnotes. No cross references. Just images of the documents as they were filed in the court.
Scanning a document does not give a copyright to the person who performs the scan. SCO has done nothing illegal by grabbing these document.
We rightfully excoriate MSFT and SCO when they make overreaching IP claims. We should be the last ones to make overreaching claims.
That said, the one thing which makes SCOX's claims look the worse is their own damn filings. By publishing them themselves, they aren't helping themselves in the public eye.
I use encrypted IMAP, not POP or fetchmail over an ssh tunnel depending on where I'm reading mail. There is also a Panix webmail interface with SSL. Even with POP, there is an encrypted alternative which I had sucessfully used before converting.
I have been a Panix customer for almost 10 years. I manage a number of domains with that address as a contact address. The hijackers could have requested the transfer keys to all of my registered domains. My domains could disappear tomorrow and without the contacts Alexis has, I might never get them back.
I am a Panix customer and I am not "trained that logins look insecure". In my ssh-hosts, I have a record, by IP, for each of Panix's shell hosts. I do *not* have a record labelled shell.panix.com. I ssh shell.panix.com and ssh finds the right key. No warnings unless something actually changes. No insecurites.
This can be worked around. NBC has been scheduling ER to start at 9:59 for ages. I have my TiVo set to record ER from 10 to 11. If I miss a minute of "previously on ER", I'm not concerned.
You do have to either watch your To Do list or look for alerts on webites like TivoCommunity.com
Newton was the first to suggest that the same force which keeps us on the Earth was responsible for the orbits of the plants around the sun. The planets are demonstrably further than 20 miles from the surface of the Earth.
The ruling should be appealled and an appellate court will take another shot at the ruling. The standard of review of a summary judgement is "de novo" which means the appealls court looks at the issues without deference to the lower court. Lower courts rarely make new law, appealls court do so more often. It shouldn't come as a surprise to lose this at the district court level.
Sure the magnetic field deflects a lot of charged ions, but the space beastie or correspondent is afraid of is a lot bigger than an ion and would not likely be (a) charged or (b) deflected.
There wasn't really anything wrong with the design of Genesis. It just failed to deploy its parachutes on reentry. It appears that Murphy is an astronaut.
It's my understanding that a pilot needs to actually land the shuttle on the ground.
There's no real mystery about chemical reactions and which reactions are exothermic and can provide energy for creatures to use. We know this stuff. If creatures could get energy from raw ores, they would already have evolved on the earth's surface to take advantage of that energy source. We do have some bacteria which can reduce sulfur and emit sulfur hydrides (rotten eggs smell) but those all mostly working off sulfur which is not in its lowest energy state. These occur where geothermic activity brings heat to underground rocks and raises the energy state of the sulfur present making some of that energy available for organisms to use.
Minerals found in naturally occurring ores are already at a low energy state. There isn't anywhere else for them to go. There isn't going to be some magical space beastie which can create a new, not found in nature, energy states for minerals itself to exploit to our grqave detriment.
But particles from the solar wind interact with and penetrate the Earth's atmosphere and have been doing so for billions of years. Perhaps you need to modify your tinfoil hat to include a mask and rebreather device so that you can be safe from those alien particles.
You've got that wrong. Under the 1909 Act, all you had to do was publish with notice to have a copyright. Most works were never registered with the copyright office until their renewal term.
The practical result is that Ludlow will conmtinue to collect royalties on a PD work. Ludlow won't allow it to be challanged in court and most people won't fight it if they get a letter from Ludlow.
Time Warner will never allow the copyright on Happy Birthday to be challanged becuase they know that they would lose. The lyrics were published in 1926 just as Woody's song was published long before its regiatration. That dosn't stop them from collecting royalties. Look closely at the closing credits the next time you hear Happy Birthday sung in a movie. You will see the TW copyright listed and the producers will have paid a rayalty because no one is going to take the time and money to challange it.
EFF's investigation revealed that "This Land is Your Land" appears to have been in the public domain since the early 1970s. Woody Guthrie wrote his classic American song in 1940, when the copyright laws granted a copyright term of 28 years, renewable once for an additional 28. According to EFF, the initial copyright term was triggered when Guthrie sold his first versions of the song as sheet music in 1945. The copyright on the song then ran out when Ludlow failed to renew its registration in 1973.
Ludlow believes its copyright -- initially filed in 1956 and renewed in 1984 -- remains valid and disputes EFF's claims.
[...]
JibJab dismissed its suit against Ludlow today. As part of the settlement of the case, JibJab will remain free to continue distributing the "This Land" animation without further interference from Ludlow.
So, apparently, Ludow is free to go on pretending that This Land Is Your Land is their copyright. How does this help anyone?
This District Court order on a motion for a preliminary injunction in the MySQL case mentions the GPL. The validity of the GPL was not an issue raised by the parties. The court assumed the GPL was valid and enforcable and ruled based on other issues.
Viruses are like graffiti. There are people who admire some graffiti for its artistic merit. But when I sit on a subway train and I'm faced with someone's tag, my day is not improved.
Virus are vandalism. It's wrong to write and release them. The people who do so should be punished.
We use technology in our business becuase it makes the employees more productive. We do Internet commerce because it reduces the cost of getting product in front of purchasers and it makes the purchase easier for both. Software is a multiplier good which increases
But, becuiase there are miscreants who wish to coopt the system to their own ends, we have to waste some of that productivity gain in fighting off the miscreants. And it's an ever accelerating battle.
Secturity is not an end goal. It is a process. You can buy as much security as you can afford and still not be 100% protected from miscreants. Money spent of fighting spam and viruses is, by and large, wasted money.
I just can't see how you can defend virus writers. It's vandalism pure and simple.
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The scanner dosn't get a copyright. The scan is an unoriginal copy. Making a copy does not vest a copyright in the maker.
It includes stuff copied from sco.tuxrocks.net which is not Groklaw.
There's a *claim* of a copyright in your Poe edition.
I've read Feist. There needs to be creative content for there to be copyright. AN alphabetical listing of names, addresses and phone numbers lacked sufficient originality to be copyrightable. In this case, "selection and arrangement" of the names on the page and the act of typesetting provided no creative content.
Similarly with your Poe edition, the typesetting and pagination gets them nothing. Even the selection of stories and ordering of them provides such a minimal creative content that any such copyright is non existant.
WHat is copyrightable is any introductions and or commentary on the stories in your edition. But not the stories themselves.
Just because there's acopyright notice, dosn't mean that anything included is actually copyrightable. The original greek of the Iliad is public domain. Translation published in the US prior to 1923 are public domain. A contemporary translation is copyrightable.
We're taking scans of court documents, not transalations of a literary work.
Most of the filings are PDFs which can be pulled off of PACER. Some filings are paper only. Frank Sorenson went down to the courtroom and paid for copies which he scanned and put up on the web as images stuffed in PDFs -- not OCRed.
I maintain that no protectable expression was added in scanning a public record into an image file.
No added footnotes. No cross references. Just images of the documents as they were filed in the court.
Scanning a document does not give a copyright to the person who performs the scan. SCO has done nothing illegal by grabbing these document.
We rightfully excoriate MSFT and SCO when they make overreaching IP claims. We should be the last ones to make overreaching claims.
That said, the one thing which makes SCOX's claims look the worse is their own damn filings. By publishing them themselves, they aren't helping themselves in the public eye.
The catch: eventually everyone will use SEOs, and there is only one first page.
Obviously, what we need are bigger first pages.
Too bad the moderators are promoting on the basis of their own desktop preferences and not ease of admin for professional installations.
Slackware has to get my vote.
I use encrypted IMAP, not POP or fetchmail over an ssh tunnel depending on where I'm reading mail. There is also a Panix webmail interface with SSL. Even with POP, there is an encrypted alternative which I had sucessfully used before converting.
I have been a Panix customer for almost 10 years. I manage a number of domains with that address as a contact address. The hijackers could have requested the transfer keys to all of my registered domains. My domains could disappear tomorrow and without the contacts Alexis has, I might never get them back.
I am a Panix customer and I am not "trained that logins look insecure". In my ssh-hosts, I have a record, by IP, for each of Panix's shell hosts. I do *not* have a record labelled shell.panix.com. I ssh shell.panix.com and ssh finds the right key. No warnings unless something actually changes. No insecurites.
Instructions should be read before.
I swear it takes too long.
So I read them afterwards instead
To see where I went wrong.
This can be worked around. NBC has been scheduling ER to start at 9:59 for ages. I have my TiVo set to record ER from 10 to 11. If I miss a minute of "previously on ER", I'm not concerned.
You do have to either watch your To Do list or look for alerts on webites like TivoCommunity.com
NBD, really.
Newton was the first to suggest that the same force which keeps us on the Earth was responsible for the orbits of the plants around the sun. The planets are demonstrably further than 20 miles from the surface of the Earth.
The ruling should be appealled and an appellate court will take another shot at the ruling. The standard of review of a summary judgement is "de novo" which means the appealls court looks at the issues without deference to the lower court. Lower courts rarely make new law, appealls court do so more often. It shouldn't come as a surprise to lose this at the district court level.
Sure the magnetic field deflects a lot of charged ions, but the space beastie or correspondent is afraid of is a lot bigger than an ion and would not likely be (a) charged or (b) deflected.
There wasn't really anything wrong with the design of Genesis. It just failed to deploy its parachutes on reentry. It appears that Murphy is an astronaut.
It's my understanding that a pilot needs to actually land the shuttle on the ground.
There's no real mystery about chemical reactions and which reactions are exothermic and can provide energy for creatures to use. We know this stuff. If creatures could get energy from raw ores, they would already have evolved on the earth's surface to take advantage of that energy source. We do have some bacteria which can reduce sulfur and emit sulfur hydrides (rotten eggs smell) but those all mostly working off sulfur which is not in its lowest energy state. These occur where geothermic activity brings heat to underground rocks and raises the energy state of the sulfur present making some of that energy available for organisms to use.
Minerals found in naturally occurring ores are already at a low energy state. There isn't anywhere else for them to go. There isn't going to be some magical space beastie which can create a new, not found in nature, energy states for minerals itself to exploit to our grqave detriment.
Your fears are science fiction, not science.
But particles from the solar wind interact with and penetrate the Earth's atmosphere and have been doing so for billions of years. Perhaps you need to modify your tinfoil hat to include a mask and rebreather device so that you can be safe from those alien particles.
You've got that wrong. Under the 1909 Act, all you had to do was publish with notice to have a copyright. Most works were never registered with the copyright office until their renewal term.
The practical result is that Ludlow will conmtinue to collect royalties on a PD work. Ludlow won't allow it to be challanged in court and most people won't fight it if they get a letter from Ludlow.
Time Warner will never allow the copyright on Happy Birthday to be challanged becuase they know that they would lose. The lyrics were published in 1926 just as Woody's song was published long before its regiatration. That dosn't stop them from collecting royalties. Look closely at the closing credits the next time you hear Happy Birthday sung in a movie. You will see the TW copyright listed and the producers will have paid a rayalty because no one is going to take the time and money to challange it.
This District Court order on a motion for a preliminary injunction in the MySQL case mentions the GPL. The validity of the GPL was not an issue raised by the parties. The court assumed the GPL was valid and enforcable and ruled based on other issues.
Viruses are like graffiti. There are people who admire some graffiti for its artistic merit. But when I sit on a subway train and I'm faced with someone's tag, my day is not improved.
Virus are vandalism. It's wrong to write and release them. The people who do so should be punished.
We use technology in our business becuase it makes the employees more productive. We do Internet commerce because it reduces the cost of getting product in front of purchasers and it makes the purchase easier for both. Software is a multiplier good which increases
But, becuiase there are miscreants who wish to coopt the system to their own ends, we have to waste some of that productivity gain in fighting off the miscreants. And it's an ever accelerating battle.
Secturity is not an end goal. It is a process. You can buy as much security as you can afford and still not be 100% protected from miscreants. Money spent of fighting spam and viruses is, by and large, wasted money.
I just can't see how you can defend virus writers. It's vandalism pure and simple.
They are, in some cases, the same people.