The courts already rejected that argument. People in The Free Republic's boards kept on doing what you describe and the courts ordered them to stop it.
This sounds so odd that I would like to see the letters and and have the person that is named as sending them out admit to it before I would believe it.
A slashdot posting saying that the DMCA is being used to attack some website is a surefire way of getting hits on that site:)
$400 million is what Sony which made the film made. Marvel, who did not expect the film to be a hit as the last comic book film made at the time they made the deal with Sony was Batman and Robin only got a tiny percentage of this, maybe $10 to $20 million. It was Marvel that should have tried to get a better deal.
It's not 10% how much the movie made but 10% of how much Marvel made, which can be a lot less. Marvel did not made the movie, a studio did. he should get about 10% minus a how reasonable expenses by Marvel of what Marvel got from the studio.
The page, "Methodology" at http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/toporgs/methodolog y.asp notes that:
Funds that came from individuals connected with the organization, as well as members of their immediate families. This includes top executives as well as others who list the organization as their employer. Contributions by spouses and dependent children are counted in the total only if they indicate no other source of income.
Therefore if a person who works for a company donates money to a candiate it is included under their employeer's name, even if the candidiate is not one that their employeer supports. Therefore it is not surprising that companies with lots of employees have lots of donations under their name.
Okay if you wrote the code independently. But if you wrote the code under a government grant then why shouldn't a taxpayer be able to take the code which he in part paid for and use it in a commerical enterprise? If you want to use the GPL write the code yourself. If you use government money then everyone should be able to use the code.
Given that the Prime Minister can decide on exactly what is in every bill that goes before the house a line-item veto is redundant. Canada has a very different system that then US.
It really would not have made much difference it they remained a chip only company like NVIDA or moved to the ATI style if they could not produce the next generation chips. They screwed up when they decided the Banshee didn't need 32 bit color and that multiple chips on one card was the approach to go. Every one connected to 3Dfx's management should be barred from the tech industry forever.
The problem is that they are changing what the makers of the film intended it too mean. It does not matter if they are adding in scenes or cutting out scenes. It does not matter if the film in question is Saving Private Ryan or Pulp Fiction, the enterprise editting the film and giving it out do not have the moral rights and I believe legal rights (less important) to change what is not theirs. If these people really want "family friendly" entertainment, start a studio of there own.
Stopping them from editting the film is not affecting their rights, stopping them from making their own films would be, but this is another matter.
Check out the photo of some of his index cards. He had tracking Robert Silverberg since 1954. I bet even Robert himself does not know the names of all of the stories on those cards.
This patent can have a major affect on web browsers. Microsoft can easily purchase a blanket license to use JPEG compression in all their products including IE but their would be no comparable organization that can do the same for Mozilla. Furthermore if the use of JPGs is covered by a patent you could not include a browser that uses this technology in any GPL only distribution. It would impact numerous other programs. A free replacement for the JPEG format would be needed.
The distributors have control already, it's called a "contract". It's not like the movie theatres just randomly pick movies from a shelf somewhere in Hollywood and play them. They have to talk to and make a deal with the distributors first.
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The Campbell awards took place on July 5th. It tied with Terraforming Earth by Williamson for the 2001 Campbell award. See Locus.
Source code is not enough. The information given to Intel and AMD so they can take part in this scheme should also be freely available to any chip company such as IBM, Sony, TI, HP, etc.
They need to make sure all of the source code and silicon implementation is public for people to trust them. They would also need to license it or better yet give it away free to Apple, Palm, Sun, etc. for people to trust them. Turning the whole thing over to a IEEE group would also help.
The MIG-25 was built to intercept the US B-70 high altitude supersonic bomber. With advances in anti-aircraft missles the US scrapped the plane in favour of low altitiude and radar avoiding planes.
Charging $25 Cdn ($15 US) for a DVD copy of Harry Potter is not exactly asking for a lot. There are costs to make movies. Unlike music their are not poorly paid artists (actors) here and the movie companies own the property. So just pay for your movies and don't try to rationalize theft.
It does not matter how the movie gets to the theatre. What matters is the contract between the distributor and the theatre company. If the contract says the theatre has to play the movie for two weeks in the largest auditoriums, that's where it will play. The theatre will of course want a better deal for following movies but its not tech that will determine where movies are played but the professional relationship between the companies.
The 5GB upload limit is not to much of a problem, it is the 5GB download cap that is. At a cost of $0.79 Cdn (about $0.50 US) per 100 MB over the limit this basically kills off any movies over the internet or purchasing software over the internet business. Who would download a 1GB movie if you knew it used 1/5 of your monthly quota or if you were at the limit, costed you $7.90 Cdn.
Do they have the rights to do this? After all it should be up to the people who made these tablets to decide in what format they get to be used. Furthermore this copying and sharing with multiple users is certainly a copyright violation.
WordPerfect Office has been out for many years, but that stop MS Office's sales. If another company, say Sun, came out with a product called Windows then everyone would just refer to them as MS Windows and Sun Windows.
Of course Microsoft could change their product name to MS Windows.NET which is possible in anycase.
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The courts already rejected that argument. People in The Free Republic's boards kept on doing what you describe and the courts ordered them to stop it.
My review has some details. It's like a recent Tom Clancy book set in a space opera. Lots and lots of talk before anything happens.
This sounds so odd that I would like to see the letters and and have the person that is named as sending them out admit to it before I would believe it.
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A slashdot posting saying that the DMCA is being used to attack some website is a surefire way of getting hits on that site
Which is Sony's revenue. The amount of money that Marvel made is an entirely different thing, about $10 to $20 million at most.
$400 million is what Sony which made the film made. Marvel, who did not expect the film to be a hit as the last comic book film made at the time they made the deal with Sony was Batman and Robin only got a tiny percentage of this, maybe $10 to $20 million. It was Marvel that should have tried to get a better deal.
It's not 10% how much the movie made but 10% of how much Marvel made, which can be a lot less. Marvel did not made the movie, a studio did. he should get about 10% minus a how reasonable expenses by Marvel of what Marvel got from the studio.
Funds that came from individuals connected with the organization, as well as members of their immediate families. This includes top executives as well as others who list the organization as their employer. Contributions by spouses and dependent children are counted in the total only if they indicate no other source of income.
Therefore if a person who works for a company donates money to a candiate it is included under their employeer's name, even if the candidiate is not one that their employeer supports. Therefore it is not surprising that companies with lots of employees have lots of donations under their name.
Okay if you wrote the code independently. But if you wrote the code under a government grant then why shouldn't a taxpayer be able to take the code which he in part paid for and use it in a commerical enterprise? If you want to use the GPL write the code yourself. If you use government money then everyone should be able to use the code.
Given that the Prime Minister can decide on exactly what is in every bill that goes before the house a line-item veto is redundant. Canada has a very different system that then US.
It really would not have made much difference it they remained a chip only company like NVIDA or moved to the ATI style if they could not produce the next generation chips. They screwed up when they decided the Banshee didn't need 32 bit color and that multiple chips on one card was the approach to go. Every one connected to 3Dfx's management should be barred from the tech industry forever.
The problem is that they are changing what the makers of the film intended it too mean. It does not matter if they are adding in scenes or cutting out scenes. It does not matter if the film in question is Saving Private Ryan or Pulp Fiction, the enterprise editting the film and giving it out do not have the moral rights and I believe legal rights (less important) to change what is not theirs. If these people really want "family friendly" entertainment, start a studio of there own.
Stopping them from editting the film is not affecting their rights, stopping them from making their own films would be, but this is another matter.
Henry Spencer provided the University of Waterloo with his NetNews archive which was then given to Google. These postings were probably part of them.
So if Henry always has the last word in any argument in a thread you know why!
Check out the photo of some of his index cards. He had tracking Robert Silverberg since 1954. I bet even Robert himself does not know the names of all of the stories on those cards.
This patent can have a major affect on web browsers. Microsoft can easily purchase a blanket license to use JPEG compression in all their products including IE but their would be no comparable organization that can do the same for Mozilla. Furthermore if the use of JPGs is covered by a patent you could not include a browser that uses this technology in any GPL only distribution. It would impact numerous other programs. A free replacement for the JPEG format would be needed.
The distributors have control already, it's called a "contract". It's not like the movie theatres just randomly pick movies from a shelf somewhere in Hollywood and play them. They have to talk to and make a deal with the distributors first.
The Campbell awards took place on July 5th. It tied with Terraforming Earth by Williamson for the 2001 Campbell award. See Locus.
Source code is not enough. The information given to Intel and AMD so they can take part in this scheme should also be freely available to any chip company such as IBM, Sony, TI, HP, etc.
They need to make sure all of the source code and silicon implementation is public for people to trust them. They would also need to license it or better yet give it away free to Apple, Palm, Sun, etc. for people to trust them. Turning the whole thing over to a IEEE group would also help.
The MIG-25 was built to intercept the US B-70 high altitude supersonic bomber. With advances in anti-aircraft missles the US scrapped the plane in favour of low altitiude and radar avoiding planes.
How can a movie company be a monopolist? Do you have to buy a license to shoot a movie?
Your arguments about stealing are correct however, the ability to do something does not mean you should do it.
Charging $25 Cdn ($15 US) for a DVD copy of Harry Potter is not exactly asking for a lot. There are costs to make movies. Unlike music their are not poorly paid artists (actors) here and the movie companies own the property. So just pay for your movies and don't try to rationalize theft.
It does not matter how the movie gets to the theatre. What matters is the contract between the distributor and the theatre company. If the contract says the theatre has to play the movie for two weeks in the largest auditoriums, that's where it will play. The theatre will of course want a better deal for following movies but its not tech that will determine where movies are played but the professional relationship between the companies.
The 5GB upload limit is not to much of a problem, it is the 5GB download cap that is. At a cost of $0.79 Cdn (about $0.50 US) per 100 MB over the limit this basically kills off any movies over the internet or purchasing software over the internet business. Who would download a 1GB movie if you knew it used 1/5 of your monthly quota or if you were at the limit, costed you $7.90 Cdn.
Do they have the rights to do this? After all it should be up to the people who made these tablets to decide in what format they get to be used. Furthermore this copying and sharing with multiple users is certainly a copyright violation.
WordPerfect Office has been out for many years, but that stop MS Office's sales. If another company, say Sun, came out with a product called Windows then everyone would just refer to them as MS Windows and Sun Windows.
Of course Microsoft could change their product name to MS Windows.NET which is possible in anycase.