Seriously... I don't pretend to understand legalese, and yet this brief was a brilliant piece of work, obviously fitting the "DTD" for a legal brief, with all the appropriate legalese, yet understandable, direct, and clear. A masterful work by the attorneys!
Copyrights cannot be assigned to another entity -->Currently this can be done (and patents as well) under liscencing. Otherwise - you wouldn't see all the cool Star Wars toys made by Mattel, not-so-cool Episode II Crunch by General Mills, etc. Eliminate liscencing and you're limited to whoever owns the copyright having to promote and pay for all of their own stuff.
Note that I had no objection to a copyright holder licensing use. I objected to a holder giving his copyright away to someone else. Since the purpose of copyright is enumerated in the Constitution in the copyright clause ("To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"), transfer of copyright does not promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts.
Here's mine...
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Copyright
All copyrights must be held by a private individual. No corporate entity may hold a copyright.
Copyright terms may vary up to a period of 17 years (depending on content type -- To Be Specified), with a single renewal for the same period of time
Copyright expires upon the death of the copyright holder.
Copyrights cannot be assigned to another entity
If a work has some form of access control, that access control must be disabled when the work enters public domain
Reverse engineering any sort of access control is legal
Patent
Patents must be held by individuals, not corporate entities
Only physical objects and processes may be patented.
(Corrolary) No patent shall be granted for algorithms or business processes
A working implementation of the patented process must be provided (upon request of USPTO)
Naturally occuring results of processes may not be patented (ex: DNA)
The USPTO must conduct a good faith search for any prior art
What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?
It turns out that the Internet makes that thing possible. A math whiz at MIT, a graduate student in Finland, a couple hundred thousand computer hobbyists all over the world can do this.
At the risk of getting flamed, I suspect that that's a hell of a lot more than 3 man-years. 3 calendar years, maybe, but not man years. 3 man-years is 6000 programmer-hours.
Principle of Equivalence (from GR -- slightly reworded): There is no difference between an accelerated frame of reference and a frame of reference in a gravitational field.
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The one hungarian style habit that I picked up (from when I did VC for a living), and sort of still maintain is distinguishing class members from globals (and yes, I know I should use "::").
I tend to have class members be m_this_member, but that's the only hungarian I still use.
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we need a bill o'reily interview of a great leader for our cause.
Actually, I emailed O'Reilly, and suggested it. No response.
Sorry, DMCA was passed in late 98, the earliest reference to DeCSS I could find in groups was 7 Oct 1999.
What is it about Perl that tends to make its proponets enjoy making write-only code?
They're frustrated APL wanna-bes?
From the article:
In addition, the court found that DeCSS is "pure speech" for the purposes of First Amendment protection.
Say what you will about CA, our courts get it! This is from the CA State Appeals Court Ruling.
Ssh! The next thing you know there will be ads in books.
What do you mean, "will"? You haven't looked in the back of a mass market paperback recently, have you?
It couldn't have happened to a nicer spyware distributor...
Uh, that would be the Department of Defense.
IP is MIL-STD-1777 and TCP is MIL-STD-1778.
Somehow, I don't think that the RIAA want's to go up against guys with tanks...
Denning was one of the main professors pushing Clipper.
Has anyone told Stef about this yet?
3. I'm Karl's lawyers. ;-)
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And just how does that give you this knowledge?
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Seriously, I hope that you guys win. Good luck.
Me Too!
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Seriously... I don't pretend to understand legalese, and yet this brief was a brilliant piece of work, obviously fitting the "DTD" for a legal brief, with all the appropriate legalese, yet understandable, direct, and clear. A masterful work by the attorneys!
And wealth goes to the heirs upon the death of the property holder. What's your point?
The goatse.cx guy?
Wrong suit, dude. It was a settlement in a civil private antitrust lawsuit. Giving away to schools was never part of the RPFJ.
Copyrights cannot be assigned to another entity
-->Currently this can be done (and patents as well) under liscencing. Otherwise - you wouldn't see all the cool Star Wars toys made by Mattel, not-so-cool Episode II Crunch by General Mills, etc. Eliminate liscencing and you're limited to whoever owns the copyright having to promote and pay for all of their own stuff.
Note that I had no objection to a copyright holder licensing use. I objected to a holder giving his copyright away to someone else. Since the purpose of copyright is enumerated in the Constitution in the copyright clause ("To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"), transfer of copyright does not promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts.
All copyrights must be held by a private individual. No corporate entity may hold a copyright.
Copyright terms may vary up to a period of 17 years (depending on content type -- To Be Specified), with a single renewal for the same period of time
Copyright expires upon the death of the copyright holder.
Copyrights cannot be assigned to another entity
If a work has some form of access control, that access control must be disabled when the work enters public domain
Reverse engineering any sort of access control is legal
Patent
Patents must be held by individuals, not corporate entities
Only physical objects and processes may be patented.
(Corrolary) No patent shall be granted for algorithms or business processes
A working implementation of the patented process must be provided (upon request of USPTO)
Naturally occuring results of processes may not be patented (ex: DNA)
The USPTO must conduct a good faith search for any prior art
At the risk of getting flamed, I suspect that that's a hell of a lot more than 3 man-years. 3 calendar years, maybe, but not man years. 3 man-years is 6000 programmer-hours.
To all the mathematically challenged out there, he's 28.
Principle of Equivalence (from GR -- slightly reworded): There is no difference between an accelerated frame of reference and a frame of reference in a gravitational field.
Is he still plaguing the Earth's surface?
That's where they store all the Yuris in a huge garage!
Who got all Pan Am's assets? Wasn't that run by PanAm?
my contribution was...
Abuse the preprocessor! Use global variables everywhere, and write the entire code in macros that manipulate those global variables!
Disclaimer -- I once inherited code from a jerk who did this. First thing I did was run the preprocessor and essentially rewrite the code.
The one hungarian style habit that I picked up (from when I did VC for a living), and sort of still maintain is distinguishing class members from globals (and yes, I know I should use "::").
I tend to have class members be m_this_member, but that's the only hungarian I still use.
But then how can you use hungarian notation?
char *lptstrSomeString, *lptstrTheOtherThing;
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