Good simple explanation, I havn't Read TFA yet (I'm at work, but I plan to tonight).
Question: Does this mean that I'll be unable to do anything with incomplete files?
For example, if I have 70% of a file in a torrent, and the first 40% of pieces are in a contiguous blocks, I can still take a copy of that file and read the first 40% without a problem (for files that have their contents 'packetised', a-la mpeg streams)
Mandatory registration of all works with a central point is a really/really/ bad idea.
If this were implemented, every Tom Dick and Harry that put up a blog or photo gallery would need to be constantly sending in copies of every item they post or photo they take.
I take photos. I post them online so my friends and family can see them, I don't want some company coming along and harvesting photos I take for a stock-photo portfolio, without getting my permission first.
Even if it were only mandatory for businesses, it would very quickly become an unworkable solution to register orginal 'highest quality' works with a central point.
Each frame I shoot on my camera (Canon EOS 20D) takes up 8MB or so in RAW format, or around 25MB in TIFF format. If I shoot 1,000 frames at an event (it's not hard to do), then I've got to send upwards of 8GB of data to a central point for 'registration'.
Your idea of 'mandatory licencing' is unfair to the original producer of the works. I know of photographers that sell a licence to a single photo for hundreds of dollars - Why would someone pay this amount if they can simply go down to the Copyright Office and get a copy for a guaranteed price? How would a Copyright Office determine "photo X is worth $Y"?
And on the same note, What if I take a photo that I dont WANT to sell to anyone? (eg of a personal nature, or even something as innocuous as a family snapshot), yet someone finds out about it and really DOES want to buy it -- If I don't register it with this copyright office, that person can take it for free. Yet if I do register it, they can buy it anyway?
In short: Mandatory Registration is a bad idea, and mandatory licencing is also a bad idea. Governments have no business telling me I must register my works with them or I'll have no rights at all to any works I create. Nor have Governments got any business telling me that I must licence my works to someone for a fixed price.
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Good simple explanation, I havn't Read TFA yet (I'm at work, but I plan to tonight).
Question: Does this mean that I'll be unable to do anything with incomplete files?
For example, if I have 70% of a file in a torrent, and the first 40% of pieces are in a contiguous blocks, I can still take a copy of that file and read the first 40% without a problem (for files that have their contents 'packetised', a-la mpeg streams)
Mandatory registration of all works with a central point is a really /really/ bad idea.
If this were implemented, every Tom Dick and Harry that put up a blog or photo gallery would need to be constantly sending in copies of every item they post or photo they take.
I take photos. I post them online so my friends and family can see them, I don't want some company coming along and harvesting photos I take for a stock-photo portfolio, without getting my permission first.
Even if it were only mandatory for businesses, it would very quickly become an unworkable solution to register orginal 'highest quality' works with a central point.
Each frame I shoot on my camera (Canon EOS 20D) takes up 8MB or so in RAW format, or around 25MB in TIFF format. If I shoot 1,000 frames at an event (it's not hard to do), then I've got to send upwards of 8GB of data to a central point for 'registration'.
Your idea of 'mandatory licencing' is unfair to the original producer of the works. I know of photographers that sell a licence to a single photo for hundreds of dollars - Why would someone pay this amount if they can simply go down to the Copyright Office and get a copy for a guaranteed price? How would a Copyright Office determine "photo X is worth $Y"?
And on the same note, What if I take a photo that I dont WANT to sell to anyone? (eg of a personal nature, or even something as innocuous as a family snapshot), yet someone finds out about it and really DOES want to buy it -- If I don't register it with this copyright office, that person can take it for free. Yet if I do register it, they can buy it anyway?
In short: Mandatory Registration is a bad idea, and mandatory licencing is also a bad idea. Governments have no business telling me I must register my works with them or I'll have no rights at all to any works I create. Nor have Governments got any business telling me that I must licence my works to someone for a fixed price.
Heheh, couldnt resist...
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dont they already exist in some parts of America?
Spec8472
Yeah? so what do you care?