Everything is copyrighted. My words here are copyright me, 2003. You literally cannot have an internet without a very loose concept of copyright. When was the last time you included a limited distribution licence on your webpage?
Personally, the sooner they take all of the kooky little widgets and bundle them up in one single kooky widget the better. I want a handheld computer that takes pictures and video, acts as a pager and cell phone, talks effortlessly to my computer back at home to retrieve data that's stored there, has a keyboard or recognizes my voice enough that I don't have to learn shorthand, has an FM radio in it, charges happily in my car and fits at least as well as a cell phone in my pocket.
Almost any device that moves the technology and marketing towards that end is good thing I think. It's all moving towards a seamless mature technology where the luxury items will be things like this that are made of titanium, waterproof to hell and back, and have a 'back massage' setting.
At least Gates would be wearing his Star Trek uniform when he came out of the jet fighter and be waving his hands up and down exclaiming how neat it was instead of trying to soullessly suck up to voters.
With such a situation you might well find that very few copyrights were renewed at all.
Oh well, less renewed copyrights means more public domain. In other words, we all win.
Just because you may think they are great does not mean that anyone else agrees or is prepared to ooffer you money for them.
Irrelevant. Even if they were works of genius that had many rich corporate suitors trying to court them my stance would be the same. Irving Berlin was great in music, but the last thing the world needs is his estate to sell the rights to that music in perpetuity no matter how many people it supports. No matter how many people that may be, the greater mass of people shall always be the public domain and therefore the the greater need. If an artist wants to support his grandchildren through his music, writings or art then he should put all of his money into the bank and not spend as much like any other person.
An idea is not a chair, despite many people's attempts to make it so. You can't steal an idea like you would a chair, if I take the chair then you're denied use of it. Ideas are more fundamental to humans than even food, or else we'd be little more than animals. They belong best to everyone.
Even music production should be getting less expensive, since a single computer nowadays pack more tricks and tools than any ten studios when the Beach Boys were recording. I suppose producers might be wanting their due $$$, but considering how many of THEM seem to be former musicians of some sort I'm not sure if I agree with even their claim. Patent law and copyright law are just two different animals that I think get treated too similarly even in the court system by judges who don't understand the underlying differences between either. I might do research while writing a book, but it's nothing compared hiring a dozen people to crack a gene or create a new light bulb.
Oh bullshit, we're not talking about patent law. This is copyright, where the most extravagent expenses in pursuit of investing in a creative endeavor are probably buying coke for Snoop Dog's posse and hiring some poor guy to shove a coffee enema up Janet Jackson's butt. Wait, there's the huge pack of lawyers and middlemen too. Reducing copyright terms at worst would hike up prices to recoup projected losses, and at best would encourage artists to stay active and create for all their lives.
Indeed, a lot of people would say that requiring copyright holders to get off their asses and innovate anew every 10 years rather than squat on the nest egg of their prior creations is a good thing. I'm certainly proud of some of the things I wrote and created when I was 20, but I'd hate to justify my lifetime by peddling them no matter how great they were.
Can you really imagine GW Bush getting on a podium and pointing at an initiative that came from Thailand as an example of a US initiative for children? Not only would it leave him open to attacks (Thai children's initiative? Is that something to do with the asian child sex trade?) but more importantly everyone should know by now that ALL GOOD THINGS COME FROM TEXAS. The moment Houston implements something like this (probably with a death sentence attached for violators) GW will round up Blair and hold a news conference. Besides, GW knows that only terrorists and file trading pedophiles use the internet, he's gotta wait until he gets the intel before he can try to have the marines land on the WWW
If they're that much of a fan, they'll buy it when the official translation comes out... along with the mug, hat, special edition fluffy toy... etc. etc.
I'm sure they will, but the simple fact of the matter is that JK Rowling and crew have to sell a product - they're not putting out anything that people need to live and they're obviously not hurting for cash if they're doing such huge print runs and making movies, they could have afforded to overlook something like this. Just because they're riding the high of unprecedented book sales doesn't mean they're immune to backlash. This is a different scenario than sleazy chinese businessmen pumping out illegal DVDs and underselling tariffs.
I wonder how many fans will be excited about being sued? Even if J.K. has a full right to do so, suing your fanbase isn't the smartest or most polite thing to do. In fact, since they're obviously intelligent and industrious fans (they're translating for God's sake, how many times have you done that for a book you despised?)they're probably the last people you're going to get good press out of. Suing "schoolboys" is like the RIAA suing college students, do it enough and you piss everyone away in disgust.
Every country has the best beer in the world, I've finally come to realize that it is never about being the best or worst but only a difference such as blondes or brunettes. Even a bad beer will do if you're thirsty, so the analogy is true.
"Ultimately," Naider said, "the Internet-enabled computer desktop is a competitive medium, where (advertisers) can impact consumer-buying decisions up to the moment.
Right, anyone truly wishing to have me buy their products need only place a pop-up ad for a rival company on my desktop so that I might know which company not to choose. My 11 year old's computer routinely spawns 58 popups until the whole thing dies while I exercise the futility of trying to keep her from reinfecting her computer with this garbage.
Thats ok, over half of my extended family in Alabama lives in double-wide trailers. At least Soviet era bunker combos don't tend to attract tornados and hillbillies.
Well, if wasting time is an indicator of free time and free time is relative to how successful you are then yes...I think it's an excellent indicator. Don't we all wish we were so lucky to be able to sit around and do nothing all day?
Thats just idiocy. Estonia too small? Compared to what, Lithuania? They've got a good port, Helsinki is what? 10 km away? In any case, Tallinn is pretty uniquely situated as a gateway city, has a history stretching back over 800 years (and hasn't ruined a lot of it like many Soviet era cities by replacing too many of their buildings with communist style ugly buildings)...
Industry boomed significantly in Tallinn during the Soviet times--machinery construction and electro-technical companies were established and most of their production went to the Soviet military industry. Consumer goods and food industry boomed as well (clothing factories "Baltika", "Marat", "Klementi", plastic production factory "Norma", footwear factory "Kommunaar", sweet factory "Kalev" etc.).
from the city of Tallinn's own site. Tallinn is booming because:
A. Sweden and others realize that Tallinn is an excellent path to pursuing trade into Russia and the Ukraine.
B. Whatever their banking situation was, their infrastructure was more or less functional.
C. It's a beautiful place, tourism is good to them.
I don't know what the situation is outside of Tallinn, from what I gather it involves lots of sleeping and farms - but most of my friends from Tallinn only leave the city to visit their parents, and sleeping and farms describes MY grandparents too.
for me, this is typical overdramatic artice from foreign media.
Of course, but if no one from the overdramatic foreign media talks about how outstanding Estonia is, won't foreign investment suffer? If it makes you feel any better, we suffer from the same symptoms of dramatizations when discussing ourselves.
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Everything is copyrighted. My words here are copyright me, 2003. You literally cannot have an internet without a very loose concept of copyright. When was the last time you included a limited distribution licence on your webpage?
They're certainly not going to become customers if they're spending every last dime on defending RIAA lawsuits either.
Personally, the sooner they take all of the kooky little widgets and bundle them up in one single kooky widget the better. I want a handheld computer that takes pictures and video, acts as a pager and cell phone, talks effortlessly to my computer back at home to retrieve data that's stored there, has a keyboard or recognizes my voice enough that I don't have to learn shorthand, has an FM radio in it, charges happily in my car and fits at least as well as a cell phone in my pocket.
Almost any device that moves the technology and marketing towards that end is good thing I think. It's all moving towards a seamless mature technology where the luxury items will be things like this that are made of titanium, waterproof to hell and back, and have a 'back massage' setting.
Something has to manage the deflection panels on the tinfoil hat.
At least Gates would be wearing his Star Trek uniform when he came out of the jet fighter and be waving his hands up and down exclaiming how neat it was instead of trying to soullessly suck up to voters.
An idea is not a chair, despite many people's attempts to make it so. You can't steal an idea like you would a chair, if I take the chair then you're denied use of it. Ideas are more fundamental to humans than even food, or else we'd be little more than animals. They belong best to everyone.
Creative people can retire as well as anyone else, as long as they put money away for retirement.
Even music production should be getting less expensive, since a single computer nowadays pack more tricks and tools than any ten studios when the Beach Boys were recording. I suppose producers might be wanting their due $$$, but considering how many of THEM seem to be former musicians of some sort I'm not sure if I agree with even their claim. Patent law and copyright law are just two different animals that I think get treated too similarly even in the court system by judges who don't understand the underlying differences between either. I might do research while writing a book, but it's nothing compared hiring a dozen people to crack a gene or create a new light bulb.
Oh bullshit, we're not talking about patent law. This is copyright, where the most extravagent expenses in pursuit of investing in a creative endeavor are probably buying coke for Snoop Dog's posse and hiring some poor guy to shove a coffee enema up Janet Jackson's butt. Wait, there's the huge pack of lawyers and middlemen too. Reducing copyright terms at worst would hike up prices to recoup projected losses, and at best would encourage artists to stay active and create for all their lives.
Indeed, a lot of people would say that requiring copyright holders to get off their asses and innovate anew every 10 years rather than squat on the nest egg of their prior creations is a good thing. I'm certainly proud of some of the things I wrote and created when I was 20, but I'd hate to justify my lifetime by peddling them no matter how great they were.
I think we should just do a Slashdot story linking to Spammer websites every couple of days, the DoS attack should be brutal.
Just like the hanging out with your friends and sex.
Can you really imagine GW Bush getting on a podium and pointing at an initiative that came from Thailand as an example of a US initiative for children? Not only would it leave him open to attacks (Thai children's initiative? Is that something to do with the asian child sex trade?) but more importantly everyone should know by now that ALL GOOD THINGS COME FROM TEXAS. The moment Houston implements something like this (probably with a death sentence attached for violators) GW will round up Blair and hold a news conference. Besides, GW knows that only terrorists and file trading pedophiles use the internet, he's gotta wait until he gets the intel before he can try to have the marines land on the WWW
This is a different scenario than sleazy chinese businessmen pumping out illegal DVDs and underselling tariffs.
I wonder how many fans will be excited about being sued? Even if J.K. has a full right to do so, suing your fanbase isn't the smartest or most polite thing to do. In fact, since they're obviously intelligent and industrious fans (they're translating for God's sake, how many times have you done that for a book you despised?)they're probably the last people you're going to get good press out of. Suing "schoolboys" is like the RIAA suing college students, do it enough and you piss everyone away in disgust.
I imagine it only has something to do with the European location that they didn't get order confirmation requests for hundreds of pizzas too.
It's the internet women.
Every country has the best beer in the world, I've finally come to realize that it is never about being the best or worst but only a difference such as blondes or brunettes. Even a bad beer will do if you're thirsty, so the analogy is true.
Hell no, I'm waiting for pretty Estonian girls to rescue me and take me to the frigid lands of cheap internet access and vodka.
Thats ok, over half of my extended family in Alabama lives in double-wide trailers. At least Soviet era bunker combos don't tend to attract tornados and hillbillies.
Well, if wasting time is an indicator of free time and free time is relative to how successful you are then yes...I think it's an excellent indicator. Don't we all wish we were so lucky to be able to sit around and do nothing all day?
Does that need explaining? Why haven't Americans gone away from Germany?
A. Sweden and others realize that Tallinn is an excellent path to pursuing trade into Russia and the Ukraine.
B. Whatever their banking situation was, their infrastructure was more or less functional.
C. It's a beautiful place, tourism is good to them.
I don't know what the situation is outside of Tallinn, from what I gather it involves lots of sleeping and farms - but most of my friends from Tallinn only leave the city to visit their parents, and sleeping and farms describes MY grandparents too.
Of course, but if no one from the overdramatic foreign media talks about how outstanding Estonia is, won't foreign investment suffer? If it makes you feel any better, we suffer from the same symptoms of dramatizations when discussing ourselves.