Government can't (usually) claim copyright. They have something else that offers similar protections from "unauthorised" distribution called Official Secrets (in England this is covered under the Official Secrets Act 1911) which ordinarily can only be used to mark documents for restriction if they pertain to national security. I forget where it is but there is a stipulation that any and all content produced by the US Government falls directly into the Public Domain; similarly, in the UK the Crown Office holds copyright on anything produced by Government but all published content should be made available without restriction. Which, generally speaking, it is. There are certain documents that have since been "disappeared", like the various CSA portfolios and particularly the Schofield List, but they will resurface...
Simply put, the student didn't sign any contract transferring copyright of any work produced by him with that equipment. Being a minor, he COULDN'T sign such a contract. Ergo, he owns the copyright.
Even safe drinking water is monetised. Nestlé themselves said a couple years ago that access to clean, safe drinking water is NOT a basic human right.
Thus was born the meme: Why is it easier to get access to free wifi than it is to get access to free drinking water?
Hell, even the UN have their oars in. They're pushing universal internet access (thanks also to Google and Elon Musk) over and above clean water. They're spending thousands of times more money on the bullshit than they are on the essential.
you need reputation for wedding photography. You're talking about the most important day of a couple's lives. You're immediately and permanently unemployable if someone posts a bad review on G+.
even outside the US: a foster parent had a child removed because he became a member of UKIP. I bullshit you not. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2...
(Rotherham Council have since made a public apology but have offered no restitution, and continue to waffle over the unrelated systemic child abuse scandal).
definitely not realistic. I never went to school with Ally Sheedy or Molly Ringwold. Most of the girls at my school looked like Kelly McGillis or Rosie O'Donnell. Either one where the iron had been left on their face for too long.
Movies cost money to make. Actors are paid. Joe Scumbag making an iphone recording and then uploading it to Jurkatorrent has (potentially) caused loss (in revenue) to the movie maker. Although, that argument could only hold water if he'd sneaked in without paying, in which case the damage would be provable. The rest is pulled out of the prosecutors arse. The cameraman doesn't own the copyright to that movie, he's working for hire. Working for hire means you don't own copyright on materials you make for your employer - he does.
Minors can't engage in "work-for-hire" contracts, for the simple reason that they're minors ergo can't engage in contracts. The way around this is 1. not to renumerate the work, and 2. get the parents to sign a consent form stipulating that the child is doing unpaid work for the school and that the school owns rights on the production. Note that BOTH conditions have to be met to get around your usual child labour laws.
thank NCLB, they pre-empted it to encompass teaching staff as well. "No Teacher Left Behind"?
Not only do they stream EVERYBODY to the slowest and most hopeless case, they're streaming teching methods to the least skilled among them. How the fuck they manage this "Nu Way" of doing long math, I have no idea. I'm pretty advanced in math and it confuses the living snot out of me!
data protection isn't just a helpful suggestion, it's the LAW!
I can, will and have gone Jurassic Park on any public servant or official I catch accessing data for anything other than specified work related tasks. If you're trusted with private data, then I swear on my left nut I will destroy you if you breach that trust.
we have 1-9H and 1-9B, also HB. Engineering plumbum is usually 2H. I do like a 4B for writing, HB is a decent allrounder but not "ideal" for anything. That said, I do carry an HB in my survival kit and one in my sketchbook 'cos the softer plumbum is more resilient than a 2H.
it was also called "Plumbum", which is close to the Latin word for lead, "plumb"; hence "plumbing" referring to waterworks (which used to be all lead) and "plumber" to refer to a drain engineer. This is why we sometimes call the graphite in pencils, "lead", when it clearly isn't.
I know some jurisdictions are phasing this out, but there is a general requirement for cellphones to be able to call the emergency services without a SIM inserted.
Cheap handset with good battery (that lasts a month between charges, Samsung E1100 for the win - no frills and it's just a fucking phone that NOBODY wants to steal), and your kid is covered for such eventualities. Alternatively, and in the long run cheaper, would be to use a PMR - and encourage other parents to invest in PMRs as well, so when kids are out like interacting with each other as some still do (according to rumour), any responsible adult with a set on the right channel can hear and respond to "Johnny fell down the well!"
I can well believe it, power outages are a thing here. As is me losing it with the rampant stupidity of people in general, cashiers in particular. How they manage to get dressed in the morning is a boggle.
collaborative virtual environments work well in such scenarios.
(source: some involvement with Coven and development of a distributed database with input from one of the lead researchers. Our Coven was Second Life, on the now-defunct Bluepill island which had an auditorium with... fully interactive whiteboards).
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even a MINOR who doesn't even get to VOTE?
"No taxation without representation"? Isn't that one of the grounding principles of American Independence?
minors can't consent to contract which is why they have this thing called a PARENTAL RELEASE FORM!
Government can't (usually) claim copyright. They have something else that offers similar protections from "unauthorised" distribution called Official Secrets (in England this is covered under the Official Secrets Act 1911) which ordinarily can only be used to mark documents for restriction if they pertain to national security. I forget where it is but there is a stipulation that any and all content produced by the US Government falls directly into the Public Domain; similarly, in the UK the Crown Office holds copyright on anything produced by Government but all published content should be made available without restriction. Which, generally speaking, it is. There are certain documents that have since been "disappeared", like the various CSA portfolios and particularly the Schofield List, but they will resurface...
Nope.
Simply put, the student didn't sign any contract transferring copyright of any work produced by him with that equipment. Being a minor, he COULDN'T sign such a contract. Ergo, he owns the copyright.
like a paying spectator.
(UK ice hockey game tickets have the stipulation on each ticket: no still or video cameras. They will kick you out if they spot you with a cam).
Even safe drinking water is monetised. Nestlé themselves said a couple years ago that access to clean, safe drinking water is NOT a basic human right.
Thus was born the meme: Why is it easier to get access to free wifi than it is to get access to free drinking water?
Hell, even the UN have their oars in. They're pushing universal internet access (thanks also to Google and Elon Musk) over and above clean water. They're spending thousands of times more money on the bullshit than they are on the essential.
public servants have no expectation of privacy, in any forum.
- Munby LJ, in Re: Stafford.
+1 "Hilarious".
Um... that's all I've got.
you need reputation for wedding photography. You're talking about the most important day of a couple's lives. You're immediately and permanently unemployable if someone posts a bad review on G+.
even outside the US: a foster parent had a child removed because he became a member of UKIP. I bullshit you not. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2...
(Rotherham Council have since made a public apology but have offered no restitution, and continue to waffle over the unrelated systemic child abuse scandal).
definitely not realistic. I never went to school with Ally Sheedy or Molly Ringwold. Most of the girls at my school looked like Kelly McGillis or Rosie O'Donnell. Either one where the iron had been left on their face for too long.
not a problem, use a 4K palmcam on a Tyler mount. That's pretty compact. And WAY better than broadcast quality.
(I'll be filming a wedding tomorrow with just such a setup).
nope.
Movies cost money to make. Actors are paid. Joe Scumbag making an iphone recording and then uploading it to Jurkatorrent has (potentially) caused loss (in revenue) to the movie maker. Although, that argument could only hold water if he'd sneaked in without paying, in which case the damage would be provable. The rest is pulled out of the prosecutors arse. The cameraman doesn't own the copyright to that movie, he's working for hire. Working for hire means you don't own copyright on materials you make for your employer - he does.
Minors can't engage in "work-for-hire" contracts, for the simple reason that they're minors ergo can't engage in contracts. The way around this is 1. not to renumerate the work, and 2. get the parents to sign a consent form stipulating that the child is doing unpaid work for the school and that the school owns rights on the production. Note that BOTH conditions have to be met to get around your usual child labour laws.
thank NCLB, they pre-empted it to encompass teaching staff as well. "No Teacher Left Behind"?
Not only do they stream EVERYBODY to the slowest and most hopeless case, they're streaming teching methods to the least skilled among them. How the fuck they manage this "Nu Way" of doing long math, I have no idea. I'm pretty advanced in math and it confuses the living snot out of me!
I'm a millipede, you insensitive clod!
somewhere floating about from ~2010 is a bank of floppies playing the Imperial March...
Hell yes.
data protection isn't just a helpful suggestion, it's the LAW!
I can, will and have gone Jurassic Park on any public servant or official I catch accessing data for anything other than specified work related tasks. If you're trusted with private data, then I swear on my left nut I will destroy you if you breach that trust.
This.
The next two things to die: the humble biro, and the Dewey Decimal system. The latter of which is actually used in digital libraries.
I shall mourn them both.
we have 1-9H and 1-9B, also HB. Engineering plumbum is usually 2H. I do like a 4B for writing, HB is a decent allrounder but not "ideal" for anything. That said, I do carry an HB in my survival kit and one in my sketchbook 'cos the softer plumbum is more resilient than a 2H.
it was also called "Plumbum", which is close to the Latin word for lead, "plumb"; hence "plumbing" referring to waterworks (which used to be all lead) and "plumber" to refer to a drain engineer. This is why we sometimes call the graphite in pencils, "lead", when it clearly isn't.
I know some jurisdictions are phasing this out, but there is a general requirement for cellphones to be able to call the emergency services without a SIM inserted.
Cheap handset with good battery (that lasts a month between charges, Samsung E1100 for the win - no frills and it's just a fucking phone that NOBODY wants to steal), and your kid is covered for such eventualities. Alternatively, and in the long run cheaper, would be to use a PMR - and encourage other parents to invest in PMRs as well, so when kids are out like interacting with each other as some still do (according to rumour), any responsible adult with a set on the right channel can hear and respond to "Johnny fell down the well!"
I can well believe it, power outages are a thing here. As is me losing it with the rampant stupidity of people in general, cashiers in particular. How they manage to get dressed in the morning is a boggle.
collaborative virtual environments work well in such scenarios.
(source: some involvement with Coven and development of a distributed database with input from one of the lead researchers. Our Coven was Second Life, on the now-defunct Bluepill island which had an auditorium with... fully interactive whiteboards).
I'm white and I find your use of the term "whiteboard" offensive. Either stop or resubstitute "chalkboard" for "blackboard".
Your move.