I live in Alliance Nebraska and the 1.5 mile long coal trains give off visible coal dust all the time. There are 10 trains that run though town daily plus the local train depot. So the dust in the air from these trains are FAR MORE DANGEROUS than any nuclear powerplant, I am more afraid of the pollution from the train's diesel engines and coal dust than any nuke plant. Too bad people are morons about nuclear power.
I'm in a band. Technically, if we "sell" our material (CDs, tapes, video, etc) with other people's copy protected work (ie: cover songs) then we must have permission to do so. This occasionally results in the original copyright holders getting a piece of our sales. In reality, our band is not popular enough to have anyone at RIAA (or other bands) care, plus we don't sell our stuff (giveaways). So we don't bother with permission.
For popular bands, they need permission and there is usually a financial component to that permission. If you perform live and cover a song (and sell tickets to your live performance) you also need permission (and sometimes financial compensation).
Garage and bar bands cover songs all the time. Some bars charge a fee to see the band. This is TECHNICALLY not legal under copyright law. But who is going to sue the Jack Dicks for playing "Freebird" in a biker bar?
Most cover music is simply credited to the original writers and that is that. You are allowed under music copyright to play a cover and change it to be something else, as long as you credit the original source. Playing Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" with an acoustic guitar and crediting yourself as the writer would be illegal under music copyright. Playing the same song and crediting Jimmy Page and Robert Plant would be fine, legally, assuming Led Zeppelin didn't care that you sold your CD and made some money for yourself.
Have you heard the announcers on Football games say "this televised broadcast is intended for private use only. Any attempt to rebroadcast or otherwise disseminate this program without the expressed written consent of the NFL is strictly prohibited"? TECHNICALLY, a bar that shows a football game cannot charge you to watch it nor use the football game on TV as an incentive to get you to come to their bar and buy their food or drinks. TECHNICALLY. I don't think the NFL would waste time suing Joe's Shady Bar for promoting the Dolphin's game, but they COULD.
If this law were to actually be enacted and enforced, technically playing a cover song would be illegal outright. Technically READING A BOOK OUTLOUD could be construed as a "public performance" and thus be subject to the law. Imagine the feds raiding a kindergarten school and arresting a teacher for reading "My First Day at School" to a bunch or 5 year olds?
I have to admit that when I installed Ubuntu 11.04 beta with Unity, I felt the need to repartition my hard drive to make more room for linux and less room for windows. I like the desktop, I like the bar thingie on the left (whatever it's called). I like typing "System" and having it give me an application to click rather than wade through 3 submenus. There have been a few bugs like not being able to select that bar thingie on the left sometimes, and I still don't know what that Ubuntu icon is for or why it turns blue. Also, I'd like not to have to type my password in when I boot into linux - I thought that was why I selected "auto login" as an option.
I truly enjoy this latest version and I'm thinking of keeping it. Just fix the bugs. I'll adjust myself to the layout quickly enough.
Getting citizens excited about spying on each other.. Great.. Just a natural extension of BigBrother TV shows where we "spy" on house inhabitants, etc. etc.
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You're not serious are you? Really? Go back to burning dinosaur bones? Surely you jest.
I live in Alliance Nebraska and the 1.5 mile long coal trains give off visible coal dust all the time. There are 10 trains that run though town daily plus the local train depot. So the dust in the air from these trains are FAR MORE DANGEROUS than any nuclear powerplant, I am more afraid of the pollution from the train's diesel engines and coal dust than any nuke plant. Too bad people are morons about nuclear power.
We won't have civil war. It will mess up the new fall TV schedule.
This is an example of hiring a +B engineer over an +A engineer
I'm in a band. Technically, if we "sell" our material (CDs, tapes, video, etc) with other people's copy protected work (ie: cover songs) then we must have permission to do so. This occasionally results in the original copyright holders getting a piece of our sales. In reality, our band is not popular enough to have anyone at RIAA (or other bands) care, plus we don't sell our stuff (giveaways). So we don't bother with permission. For popular bands, they need permission and there is usually a financial component to that permission. If you perform live and cover a song (and sell tickets to your live performance) you also need permission (and sometimes financial compensation). Garage and bar bands cover songs all the time. Some bars charge a fee to see the band. This is TECHNICALLY not legal under copyright law. But who is going to sue the Jack Dicks for playing "Freebird" in a biker bar? Most cover music is simply credited to the original writers and that is that. You are allowed under music copyright to play a cover and change it to be something else, as long as you credit the original source. Playing Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" with an acoustic guitar and crediting yourself as the writer would be illegal under music copyright. Playing the same song and crediting Jimmy Page and Robert Plant would be fine, legally, assuming Led Zeppelin didn't care that you sold your CD and made some money for yourself. Have you heard the announcers on Football games say "this televised broadcast is intended for private use only. Any attempt to rebroadcast or otherwise disseminate this program without the expressed written consent of the NFL is strictly prohibited"? TECHNICALLY, a bar that shows a football game cannot charge you to watch it nor use the football game on TV as an incentive to get you to come to their bar and buy their food or drinks. TECHNICALLY. I don't think the NFL would waste time suing Joe's Shady Bar for promoting the Dolphin's game, but they COULD. If this law were to actually be enacted and enforced, technically playing a cover song would be illegal outright. Technically READING A BOOK OUTLOUD could be construed as a "public performance" and thus be subject to the law. Imagine the feds raiding a kindergarten school and arresting a teacher for reading "My First Day at School" to a bunch or 5 year olds?
I have to admit that when I installed Ubuntu 11.04 beta with Unity, I felt the need to repartition my hard drive to make more room for linux and less room for windows. I like the desktop, I like the bar thingie on the left (whatever it's called). I like typing "System" and having it give me an application to click rather than wade through 3 submenus. There have been a few bugs like not being able to select that bar thingie on the left sometimes, and I still don't know what that Ubuntu icon is for or why it turns blue. Also, I'd like not to have to type my password in when I boot into linux - I thought that was why I selected "auto login" as an option. I truly enjoy this latest version and I'm thinking of keeping it. Just fix the bugs. I'll adjust myself to the layout quickly enough.
Getting citizens excited about spying on each other.. Great.. Just a natural extension of BigBrother TV shows where we "spy" on house inhabitants, etc. etc.