Nice bit of research by the slashdot community. If we could just link a few pictures of cute girls on AIDS and cancer and post it to slashdot we could have a cure in 48 hrs.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (MSNBC) -- The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday a 1998 law extending copyright protection by 20 years, delaying when creative works such as Walt Disney Co.'s Mickey Mouse cartoons, F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels and George Gershwin's songs become public property.
The 7-2 ruling was a victory for supporters of the law, including large media companies and song publishers that argued the longer term was needed to protect a vital industry that contributes more than $500 billion to the U.S. economy. It dealt a defeat to an Internet publisher and others who challenged the law for limiting free speech and for harming the creative process by locking up material that they said should be in the public domain for all to use without charge.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said for the court majority that the U.S. Congress in adopting the law acted within its authority and did not exceed constitutional limits. She also said the law does not violate constitutional free-speech protections. The law's opponents argued the copyright law's extension closed off the Internet to a broad part of common culture at a time when the Internet allows more people to draw upon creative works without restraint. At issue in the ruling was the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which extended the exclusive period that artists and corporations can control their creative works by 20 years.
DISNEY CARTOON FILMS WITH MICKEY MOUSE
As a result, thousands of well-known works, including the earliest Disney cartoon films with Mickey Mouse, Fitzgerald's novels and the Gershwin song "Rhapsody in Blue," were prevented from passing into the public domain. Billions of dollars of entertainment-industry profits were at stake. Opponents said the law violated the copyright clause of the U.S. Constitution, which gives authors and inventors exclusive right to their works for an unspecified "limited" period of time to "promote the progress of science and useful arts."
The first federal copyright law, in 1790, established a copyright term of 14 years, with an optional 14-year extension. By the time Congress overhauled copyright laws in 1976, that term had stretched to life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for works owned by corporations. The 1998 law extended the term for another 20 years. Congress adopted the legislation, named after the late congressman and singer from California, to bring U.S. law into conformity with the European Union.
The ruling was a victory for the U.S. Justice Department, which defended the law's constitutionality.
Ginsburg said Congress had wide leeway in deciding how long copyright protection should last. She said lawmakers had taken into consideration the European Union copyright term and "relevant demographic, economic and technological changes."
In summarizing the ruling from the bench, Ginsburg said the court was satisfied that Congress acted rationally. She said the copyright scheme incorporates its own safeguards protecting free speech.
Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer dissented.
I am sure that this will just go away. If SCO really had some enforceable intellectual property that could collect royalty payments other Linux vendors, MS would just acquire SCO and start appling the screws.
I think linux is still very young on the desktop OS market but it's doing a great job and I'm very impressed by how fast it's moving forward... KDE, Gnome, Evolution, OpenOffice, etc... all these software are working on a new development version right now that's purely amazing... I can't wait to see what it will be like by the end of the year 2003 !
I agree with most of this but I don't understand why OpenOffice has changed so little; 1.0.1 came out in July 2002 and had no new features over 1.0 released over a year earlier.
I think Sun released open office to Screw with MS but they have no economic incentive to add new features.
I find it funny that Sun is using MS marketing 101- release a product to kill the competition (free if necessary) and then stop all innovation.
At least with this product we could pick up the peaces and continue to innovate. Does anyone know of a word processor/spreadsheet project that builds on openoffice?
If it is so easy to beat a spinner why is it not allowed in the "Official Foosball Rules?"
BTW is there really a such thing as professional foosball tournaments? Why is this not covered more on slashdot because this really fits "News for nerds"
I found this link http://www.foosball.com/learn/knowledge/chp2pro.ht ml
If you really want to criticize something, criticize the moderation system. I browse at -1 because i don't trust the moderators to weed out "only the bad" for me. Of course, with this comes the... FIFTEEN (so far) trolls/f1rst pr0st/goatse posts. Now for that i'd be interested in hearing a solution.
So let me get this straight, you don't like trolls, don't trust the moderators and have time to kill so you read all -1 comments but want someone "that you can trust" to remove comments that are not interesting to you?
Some people are never happy.
If I were CmdrTaco I would let the trolls think they have moderations points but only let their point rank the comments read by other trolls. It would be fun to see the trolls' version of/. spiral down until even the trolls get board (is that even possible?)
The first toy I had that would "run on windows" was a green octopus that you could throw against the wall and it would run down.
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/cooltoons/sponwigwalcr.html
This is great! I want to hack mine so it Cycles from stable vital signs to critial and then back to stable. The rescuer will think I am badly injured but a real fighter so I will be one of the 1st they will try to dig out.
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Let me put this in a way USians can understand:
You buy a car in the US. It runs fine on the petrol...
I've got a 6 year old mac that no one uses, I would like to install mandrake and give it to some one to use for word processing and email; Is linux on mac working well enough for that?
All-in-wonder on windows is a great DVR remote included, just be sure to download the latest drivers! I have been very happy with the Linux stuff yet.
I really don�t see what all the fuss about tabbed
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61% of slashdot readers use Windows but only 49% use IE. I decided to give this Mozilla thing a try.
I really don't see what all the fuss about tabbed browsing is about; It really just does the same thing as opening a new window in IE (I have more ram than I know what to do with when just surfing the net).
I do like the idea of blocking pop up windows and other adds but I had problems accessing one of my favorite sites (tv.yahoo.com) and quickly got tired of having to open IE when Mozilla didn't work.
I am willing to give Mozilla another try but do I really have to uninstall 1.2 to upgrade to 1.2.1 on windows?
Do you know a good site for Mozilla newbies?
No this is not a troll, I really am just starting to use Mozilla, and not impressed with tabbed browsing.
A friend (6'3" and a little over weight) is the kind of guy that is always stopped and searched buy security (even before 9/11) because he looks like trouble, (in reality he is a gentle giant), Anyway he was on a plane from Kentucky to Florida with Mr Shatner and after the plane took off he walked up to Shatner and asked him to sign his barf bag. Mr Shatner who rarely does autographs for free, took one look at my friend and decided it was easier to just sign the bag.
He keeps the barf bag in a framed star trek movie poster.
"This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future."
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Cool, I can finnaly build my own personal Phoenix and cruise down Center Neptune to join the rest of G-force.
Nice bit of research by the slashdot community. If we could just link a few pictures of cute girls on AIDS and cancer and post it to slashdot we could have a cure in 48 hrs.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (MSNBC) -- The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday a 1998 law extending copyright protection by 20 years, delaying when creative works such as Walt Disney Co.'s Mickey Mouse cartoons, F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels and George Gershwin's songs become public property.
The 7-2 ruling was a victory for supporters of the law, including large media companies and song publishers that argued the longer term was needed to protect a vital industry that contributes more than $500 billion to the U.S. economy. It dealt a defeat to an Internet publisher and others who challenged the law for limiting free speech and for harming the creative process by locking up material that they said should be in the public domain for all to use without charge.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said for the court majority that the U.S. Congress in adopting the law acted within its authority and did not exceed constitutional limits. She also said the law does not violate constitutional free-speech protections. The law's opponents argued the copyright law's extension closed off the Internet to a broad part of common culture at a time when the Internet allows more people to draw upon creative works without restraint. At issue in the ruling was the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which extended the exclusive period that artists and corporations can control their creative works by 20 years.
DISNEY CARTOON FILMS WITH MICKEY MOUSE
As a result, thousands of well-known works, including the earliest Disney cartoon films with Mickey Mouse, Fitzgerald's novels and the Gershwin song "Rhapsody in Blue," were prevented from passing into the public domain. Billions of dollars of entertainment-industry profits were at stake. Opponents said the law violated the copyright clause of the U.S. Constitution, which gives authors and inventors exclusive right to their works for an unspecified "limited" period of time to "promote the progress of science and useful arts."
The first federal copyright law, in 1790, established a copyright term of 14 years, with an optional 14-year extension. By the time Congress overhauled copyright laws in 1976, that term had stretched to life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for works owned by corporations. The 1998 law extended the term for another 20 years. Congress adopted the legislation, named after the late congressman and singer from California, to bring U.S. law into conformity with the European Union.
The ruling was a victory for the U.S. Justice Department, which defended the law's constitutionality. Ginsburg said Congress had wide leeway in deciding how long copyright protection should last. She said lawmakers had taken into consideration the European Union copyright term and "relevant demographic, economic and technological changes."
In summarizing the ruling from the bench, Ginsburg said the court was satisfied that Congress acted rationally. She said the copyright scheme incorporates its own safeguards protecting free speech. Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer dissented.
I am sure that this will just go away. If SCO really had some enforceable intellectual property that could collect royalty payments other Linux vendors, MS would just acquire SCO and start appling the screws.
so ... do you know of anyone who has taken the open office source code to make a "better" office product?
I agree with most of this but I don't understand why OpenOffice has changed so little; 1.0.1 came out in July 2002 and had no new features over 1.0 released over a year earlier.
I think Sun released open office to Screw with MS but they have no economic incentive to add new features.
I find it funny that Sun is using MS marketing 101- release a product to kill the competition (free if necessary) and then stop all innovation.
At least with this product we could pick up the peaces and continue to innovate. Does anyone know of a word processor/spreadsheet project that builds on openoffice?
because i am a bad speller, i cut and paste to ms word so I can spell check. I changed your quote before I realized it was not my words.
www.geocities.com/atrahasis1/ascension.html
BTW is there really a such thing as professional foosball tournaments? Why is this not covered more on slashdot because this really fits "News for nerds"
I found this link http://www.foosball.com/learn/knowledge/chp2pro.ht ml
So let me get this straight, you don't like trolls, don't trust the moderators and have time to kill so you read all -1 comments but want someone "that you can trust" to remove comments that are not interesting to you?
Some people are never happy.
If I were CmdrTaco I would let the trolls think they have moderations points but only let their point rank the comments read by other trolls. It would be fun to see the trolls' version of /. spiral down until even the trolls get board (is that even possible?)
The first toy I had that would "run on windows" was a green octopus that you could throw against the wall and it would run down. http://shop.store.yahoo.com/cooltoons/sponwigwalcr .html
Why does this read like the stuff they said we would have now in 1955?
This is great! I want to hack mine so it Cycles from stable vital signs to critial and then back to stable. The rescuer will think I am badly injured but a real fighter so I will be one of the 1st they will try to dig out.
You buy a car in the US. It runs fine on the petrol...
As an American I have two questions:
1. What is an USian?
2. What is Petrol?
I've got a 6 year old mac that no one uses, I would like to install mandrake and give it to some one to use for word processing and email; Is linux on mac working well enough for that?
All-in-wonder on windows is a great DVR remote included, just be sure to download the latest drivers! I have been very happy with the Linux stuff yet.
I really don't see what all the fuss about tabbed browsing is about; It really just does the same thing as opening a new window in IE (I have more ram than I know what to do with when just surfing the net).
I do like the idea of blocking pop up windows and other adds but I had problems accessing one of my favorite sites (tv.yahoo.com) and quickly got tired of having to open IE when Mozilla didn't work.
I am willing to give Mozilla another try but do I really have to uninstall 1.2 to upgrade to 1.2.1 on windows?
Do you know a good site for Mozilla newbies?
No this is not a troll, I really am just starting to use Mozilla, and not impressed with tabbed browsing.
Taoism
thanks
Could you please learn how to write a Hypertext Link!
Either I am not hip or you are not American (most likely both). I think nicked is British speak for stolen but who is the bird?
He keeps the barf bag in a framed star trek movie poster.
Dude you really take this movie seriously. For me it was just a funny flick. Click here.
--Adolph Hitler, 1935
Nice strategy, to win an argument tell 'em Hitler was on the side of your opponent.
and I got an All-in-wonder 7500 for my homebrew PVR.