Copyright is currently Life of Creator + 70 years. This amends current copyright law, such that the copyright can fall into the public domain after 50 years have passed since first publication (or 2004 whichever is later). This greatly benefits us because it enriches public domain.
Therefore, your assertion that this law does nothing, is incorrect.
(I was going to say something about your (apparent)inability to read, but I decided against it because I'm a nice person.)
Party Y won't be able to cry foul if they've let the work lapse into the public domain. It won't matter anyway, they had their fifty-years, weren't able to make it continually commercially-viable, and so it lapsed, if they had been able to, or merely wanted to make sure they had sole control, they could have paid the $1.00(US) every ten years after then 50th year from first publication. That averages out to 90 dollars over the course of the copyright's "Lifetime", it's pocket change in the long run.
They say in the FAQ that this doesn't violate the Berne Treaty, because it isn't formally a "formality" nor a "registration", but you have to file a registration document and pay a fee to the US Copyright Register, which appears at least to this (NAL), that it is a formality and a register and in violation of the Berne Treaty.
They aren't renewing the copyright, because Copyright in the US is Creator's life + 70 years, or in the case of Corporations 80 years, or something like that. This is merely a provision which allows a work to fall into the public domain after 50 years from the copyright date, unless the work is commercially viable, in which case, the copyright holder pays a small fee to keep the rights until the copyright term is completed.
We always had fun on the fourth of july, blowing up bottles with liquid oxygen and nitrogen. I had a wart removed with the stuff... that was interesting. A lot cooler than using duct tape IMHO.
I didn't say that all environmentalists are insane. I do, however, have problems with the idiots that greenpeace and the sierra club spit out. Nuclear is our best chance for reducing fossil fuel dependency, but due to the knee-jerk reaction to the word nuclear, it'll never happen.
Nuclear is safer in the long run than fossil fuels, and provides more power than hydroelectric, wind and solar which also contribute detrimentally to the environment.
maybe this thing would have a chance of getting off the ground. Unfortunately the enviroloonies, are so terrified of the word 'nuclear' that any project that has it attached will get protested into the ground...
If you're such an awesome programmer, you should be able to get a job where they will pay for you to relocate. If you can't be bothered to look for a job where they will relocate you, why'd you bother going to college?
You have to look for a job, they're not going to look for you.
If your family makes $20000, and you pay no tax (as is presently the case in the US),
I call bullshit on you. I make less than 20 000 dollars a year, yet I still pay Federal, State, and Social Security taxes. Perhaps, if you'd look at the facts rather than listening to liars with an agenda...
Wait a minute here, you're telling me you put spin into an anti-spin machine and it didn't blow up catastrophically? Are you sure you have that thing calibrated correctly?
I'm not calling them names, I just can't be fucked to type Caldera doing business as the SCO Group every time I want to talk about them. They're not SCO, so why would I call them SCO?
Hara-kiri is when one would commit suicide to defend its honour. Hara-kiri was an honourable act. Comparing SCalderO's actions to hara-kiri debases the entire lineage of people who chose to commit that act... oh... wait.
Actually, I'd liken SCalderO's actions to the kamakaze pilots in WW2. Their ploy was solely to take as many ships out as possible on their way down.
Is the a psychiatrist in the house? Someone needs to prescribe some Prozac to SCalderO stat, because that's one self-destructive depressive, that's trying to drag the whole world down with it.
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That's exactly why I put it in... because I'm an ass.
Have a nice day, yourself.
Copyright is currently Life of Creator + 70 years. This amends current copyright law, such that the copyright can fall into the public domain after 50 years have passed since first publication (or 2004 whichever is later). This greatly benefits us because it enriches public domain.
Therefore, your assertion that this law does nothing, is incorrect.
(I was going to say something about your (apparent)inability to read, but I decided against it because I'm a nice person.)
Party Y won't be able to cry foul if they've let the work lapse into the public domain. It won't matter anyway, they had their fifty-years, weren't able to make it continually commercially-viable, and so it lapsed, if they had been able to, or merely wanted to make sure they had sole control, they could have paid the $1.00(US) every ten years after then 50th year from first publication. That averages out to 90 dollars over the course of the copyright's "Lifetime", it's pocket change in the long run.
They say in the FAQ that this doesn't violate the Berne Treaty, because it isn't formally a "formality" nor a "registration", but you have to file a registration document and pay a fee to the US Copyright Register, which appears at least to this (NAL), that it is a formality and a register and in violation of the Berne Treaty.
They aren't renewing the copyright, because Copyright in the US is Creator's life + 70 years, or in the case of Corporations 80 years, or something like that. This is merely a provision which allows a work to fall into the public domain after 50 years from the copyright date, unless the work is commercially viable, in which case, the copyright holder pays a small fee to keep the rights until the copyright term is completed.
ESR is a gun-toting Librarian? Is that why the Supremes upheld CIPA?
I live in Central London (in England).
Is there another Central London we didn't know about?
Copyright infringement is not stealing. Illegal, yes, stealing no.
Alien species put up huge fences to keep us outside of their garden, and now we're going to be shooting stuff at them...
[Dennis the Menace]
Hey Mr. Freeeblgwaaxx!1
[/Dennis]
We always had fun on the fourth of july, blowing up bottles with liquid oxygen and nitrogen. I had a wart removed with the stuff... that was interesting. A lot cooler than using duct tape IMHO.
I didn't say that all environmentalists are insane. I do, however, have problems with the idiots that greenpeace and the sierra club spit out. Nuclear is our best chance for reducing fossil fuel dependency, but due to the knee-jerk reaction to the word nuclear, it'll never happen.
Nuclear is safer in the long run than fossil fuels, and provides more power than hydroelectric, wind and solar which also contribute detrimentally to the environment.
maybe this thing would have a chance of getting off the ground. Unfortunately the enviroloonies, are so terrified of the word 'nuclear' that any project that has it attached will get protested into the ground...
If you're such an awesome programmer, you should be able to get a job where they will pay for you to relocate. If you can't be bothered to look for a job where they will relocate you, why'd you bother going to college?
You have to look for a job, they're not going to look for you.
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It wasn't +5 funny... jeez
You mean you've never found a Class C in the middle of the street? I guess I should stop selling those things... but $500 buys a lot of beer...
Bah! You nancy-pants youngsters... in my day, All I had was a stick and some toroidal stones... and by golly we liked it.
Durn kids and their durned electricity...
If your family makes $20000, and you pay no tax (as is presently the case in the US),
I call bullshit on you. I make less than 20 000 dollars a year, yet I still pay Federal, State, and Social Security taxes. Perhaps, if you'd look at the facts rather than listening to liars with an agenda...
That's only if you use a fork instead of bolts for the electrodes.
Wait a minute here, you're telling me you put spin into an anti-spin machine and it didn't blow up catastrophically? Are you sure you have that thing calibrated correctly?
Yes, but you had to have honour to perform the act... something that is conspicuously absent from the company.
I'm not calling them names, I just can't be fucked to type Caldera doing business as the SCO Group every time I want to talk about them. They're not SCO, so why would I call them SCO?
Hara-kiri is when one would commit suicide to defend its honour. Hara-kiri was an honourable act. Comparing SCalderO's actions to hara-kiri debases the entire lineage of people who chose to commit that act... oh... wait.
Actually, I'd liken SCalderO's actions to the kamakaze pilots in WW2. Their ploy was solely to take as many ships out as possible on their way down.
Is the a psychiatrist in the house? Someone needs to prescribe some Prozac to SCalderO stat, because that's one self-destructive depressive, that's trying to drag the whole world down with it.
Well, granted, but according to Novelle, they have no rights to, and do not own. SCalderaO is just acting as an aggressive licensing unit... AFAICT
But that predates both Linux and SCO anyway, so your point is moot.
Ah, but GCC allows you to compile c programs with C++ style comments.