That's a good point - I take pictures at games all the time. I own the pictures, not MLB or NFL. I can't go off selling products made from those images, but I can sell those images to a newspaper.
Likewise, I can take pictures I took of a wedding and make marketing materials for myself, but without a model release form I cannot sell those images for use by other designers.
I work in the photography field, so I might be able to offer a different perspective.
Did you know that photographers who work for National Geogrpahic own their images, even if they appear in the magazine? They fought for that right in court and the Supreme Court sided with the little guy on this one - that being the photographer.
Your contract as a programmer states explicitly that what you create on the job is owned by the company. But if you did not agree to that upfront, then anything you invented/created on the job would actually belong to you.
You see - the NFL owns the game, but NBC owns the broadcast. You own the content of your wedding, but the photographer owns the images they created. Now, the NFL and NBC have certainly negociated something that is beneficial to both, otherwise the NFL takes its games to another network (which happens all the time). And likewise, you have the ability to negociate with your photographer over rights and find another one if the terms are not to your liking.
What I do is offer prints as part of the package, and additional prints online at a reasonable charge, and at the same time the couple may purchase the "negatives" (a CD of the RAW images and full resolution processed JPEGs) along with the rights to do whatever. My charge for taking the photos + handing over the rights is still under the market price, however.
Copyright law goes back decades protects the photographer to same way it protects freelance programmers and journalists. Organizations like AMPS and PPA have spent a lot of time, money, and effort defending the rights of photographers and other creators/inventors againsts the interests of large corporations. And if the average person could stick it to the photographer, then the large corporation can too as well as the creative programer.
Structures like this tube are what will be needed for applications such as a space elevator cable and fuel tanks that can hold hydrogen (the hydrogen binds to nanotubes and can be packed more densly than in an empty vacuum).
And it's not the "kids" working on these kinds of projects - the goals are set by people like Rick Smalley, who invented and named the Bucky Ball.
The cost of making nanotubes needs to come down before it can be used commerically however - and lo and behold it costs less to produce longer strands.
Last time I spoke with the folks at Rice's Center for Nanoscale Technology they were talking about this as a milestone on their way to $1/gram instead of $1000/gram it stands near now.
Just once, I would like to read real news on April 1st.:/ Some joke articles are fine (I like the "10.4 Tiger renamed 10.4 Wombat" over on Ranchero), but it's starting to get old. Either that or I'm a real curmudgeon.
If a company gets sued under such a broad claim, all they have to prove is that someone (doesn't have to be them) was using that method a year or more before the patent application was filed.
Reporters always blow things out of porportion - especially when they're British and they're talking about something American.
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Subject: COMPUTER HACKER NEVER ENDANGERED SHUTTLE ASTRONAUTS Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:10:13 -0400 (EDT) From: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Bob Jacobs/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington, DC July 3, 2000 (Phone: 202/358-1600)
Ed Campion/Eileen Hawley Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX (Phone: 281/483-5111)
RELEASE: 00-102
COMPUTER HACKER NEVER ENDANGERED SHUTTLE ASTRONAUTS
News reports that a computer hacker endangered the lives of Space Shuttle astronauts during a 1997 mission are wrong. A report from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said a hacker compromised NASA computers, endangering the lives of American astronauts.
NASA's Inspector General's office found that during the STS-86 mission in September of 1997, the transmission of routine medical information was slightly delayed due to a computer hacker. However, the transmission was successfully completed.
At no time was communication between NASA and the astronauts compromised. The communication interruption occurred between internal ground-based computer systems.
There has never been an interruption of communication service with the Shuttle due to computer hacker attacks. The command and control communications links between Mission Control and a Space Shuttle in orbit are extremely well insulated.
The 1997 incident is currently under investigation by NASA Inspector General's office.
-end-
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My company created lots of dynamic sites with dynamic content - without the use of different extensions or URLs that contain query strings. Apache is awesome (in case you haven't heard)! Almost all of our HTML files actually contain embedded TCL code, so the servers are configured to parse every *.html file - allowing to use the *.html extension for files that have dynamic content. We also use things like mod_rewrite to send data to a single file that tells the file what data to use and how to behave. We could have an entire range of sites served out by a single file... even making it look like they have thier own directories, when in reality they don't exist.
This isn't the first Christian oreinted video game... that's one of the oldest genres there is. It's just not mainstream. There are some that are borderline as well, like the strategy game Afterlife (which I didn't care for to much).
My company is currently developing a new MP3 site. We have advertisers lined up. We also have the ear of several traditional record labels. They're starting to understand that they can't stop MP3 and if they try they might just be out of a job. We'll be selling MP3s of copyrighted songs. The labels will still get their money, but the user will still get a quality MP3... a fraction of the time and money spent on getting a CD.
When we finish, I'll try and post an article on it, I think the Slashdot crowd will like it.:)
Slashdot Mirror
That's a good point - I take pictures at games all the time. I own the pictures, not MLB or NFL. I can't go off selling products made from those images, but I can sell those images to a newspaper.
Likewise, I can take pictures I took of a wedding and make marketing materials for myself, but without a model release form I cannot sell those images for use by other designers.
I work in the photography field, so I might be able to offer a different perspective.
Did you know that photographers who work for National Geogrpahic own their images, even if they appear in the magazine? They fought for that right in court and the Supreme Court sided with the little guy on this one - that being the photographer.
Your contract as a programmer states explicitly that what you create on the job is owned by the company. But if you did not agree to that upfront, then anything you invented/created on the job would actually belong to you.
You see - the NFL owns the game, but NBC owns the broadcast. You own the content of your wedding, but the photographer owns the images they created. Now, the NFL and NBC have certainly negociated something that is beneficial to both, otherwise the NFL takes its games to another network (which happens all the time). And likewise, you have the ability to negociate with your photographer over rights and find another one if the terms are not to your liking.
What I do is offer prints as part of the package, and additional prints online at a reasonable charge, and at the same time the couple may purchase the "negatives" (a CD of the RAW images and full resolution processed JPEGs) along with the rights to do whatever. My charge for taking the photos + handing over the rights is still under the market price, however.
Copyright law goes back decades protects the photographer to same way it protects freelance programmers and journalists. Organizations like AMPS and PPA have spent a lot of time, money, and effort defending the rights of photographers and other creators/inventors againsts the interests of large corporations. And if the average person could stick it to the photographer, then the large corporation can too as well as the creative programer.
Dude - you're an idiot.
Structures like this tube are what will be needed for applications such as a space elevator cable and fuel tanks that can hold hydrogen (the hydrogen binds to nanotubes and can be packed more densly than in an empty vacuum).
And it's not the "kids" working on these kinds of projects - the goals are set by people like Rick Smalley, who invented and named the Bucky Ball.
The cost of making nanotubes needs to come down before it can be used commerically however - and lo and behold it costs less to produce longer strands.
Last time I spoke with the folks at Rice's Center for Nanoscale Technology they were talking about this as a milestone on their way to $1/gram instead of $1000/gram it stands near now.
Just once, I would like to read real news on April 1st. :/ Some joke articles are fine (I like the "10.4 Tiger renamed 10.4 Wombat" over on Ranchero), but it's starting to get old. Either that or I'm a real curmudgeon.
If a company gets sued under such a broad claim, all they have to prove is that someone (doesn't have to be them) was using that method a year or more before the patent application was filed.
Reporters always blow things out of porportion - especially when they're British and they're talking about something American.
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Subject: COMPUTER HACKER NEVER ENDANGERED SHUTTLE ASTRONAUTS
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:10:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Bob Jacobs/Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington, DC July 3, 2000
(Phone: 202/358-1600)
Ed Campion/Eileen Hawley
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone: 281/483-5111)
RELEASE: 00-102
COMPUTER HACKER NEVER ENDANGERED SHUTTLE ASTRONAUTS
News reports that a computer hacker endangered the lives of Space Shuttle astronauts during a 1997 mission are wrong. A report from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said a hacker compromised NASA computers, endangering the lives of American astronauts.
NASA's Inspector General's office found that during the STS-86 mission in September of 1997, the transmission of routine medical information was slightly delayed due to a computer hacker. However, the transmission was successfully completed.
At no time was communication between NASA and the astronauts compromised. The communication interruption occurred between internal ground-based computer systems.
There has never been an interruption of communication service with the Shuttle due to computer hacker attacks. The command and control communications links between Mission Control and a Space Shuttle in orbit are extremely well insulated.
The 1997 incident is currently under investigation by NASA Inspector General's
office.
-end-
* * *
NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending an Internet electronic mail message to domo@hq.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) sers should type the words "subscribe press-release" (no quotes). The system will reply with a confirmation via E-mail of each subscription. A second automatic message will include additional information on the service. NASA releases also are available via CompuServe using the command GO NASA. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, address an E-mail message to domo@hq.nasa.gov, leave the subject blank, and type only "unsubscribe press-release" (no quotes) in the body of the message.
My company created lots of dynamic sites with
dynamic content - without the use of different
extensions or URLs that contain query strings.
Apache is awesome (in case you haven't heard)!
Almost all of our HTML files actually contain
embedded TCL code, so the servers are configured
to parse every *.html file - allowing to use
the *.html extension for files that have dynamic
content. We also use things like mod_rewrite
to send data to a single file that tells the
file what data to use and how to behave. We
could have an entire range of sites served out
by a single file... even making it look like
they have thier own directories, when in
reality they don't exist.
This isn't the first Christian oreinted video
game... that's one of the oldest genres there
is. It's just not mainstream.
There are some that are borderline as well,
like the strategy game Afterlife (which I
didn't care for to much).
My company is currently developing a new MP3 site. We have advertisers lined up. We also have the ear of several traditional record labels. They're starting to understand that they can't stop MP3 and if they try they might just be out of a job. We'll be selling MP3s of copyrighted songs. The labels will still get their money, but the user will still get a quality MP3... a fraction of the time and money spent on getting a CD.
:)
When we finish, I'll try and post an article on it, I think the Slashdot crowd will like it.
-Richard