including especially the question mark, quotation mark, colon, forward slash and asterix. For clarity and accuracy, any punctuation mark that's commonly used in everyday writing should be available for use in filenames going forward.
"Do I think taxes are too high. YES. Our government wastes money left and right but still its our responsbility to pay them."
Says you.
I have no children by choice, partly because I don't want the burden or expense of raising them. The education of your children are YOUR responsibility. The "goods" you consume, whether "public" or otherwise, must be paid for by YOU, or you're a thief.
To take my property against my will for any purpose, whether it benefits me or not, even if it's been approved by every voter in the nation, is theft.
Neil Young won't permit the CD rerelease of his "Time Fades Away" LP, while the Grateful Dead cheerfully allows the mass-trading of recordings of their live shows. Those decisions are the artists to make.
Yes, you have the right to sing my song privately to yourself or for your friends. You do not have the right to reproduce my performance of it and distribute your reproduction of it.
What you didn't create, in terms of copyright, isn't yours to dispose of.
If I create the next Spider-man, you do not have the right to publish stories featuring him. The character was not "discovered," as unlike mathematics it doesn't exist in nature, but was invented.
And if I spend millions of my or my employer's dollars to film a motion picture, you do not have the right to re-copy and distribute it when you purchase the DVD.
Doesn't mean you won't put it out there anyway, depending on your level of immorality, or that you can be stopped if you do, but just because you CAN do it doesn't make it right.
Intangible it may be, but that movie or song or character is property all the same, and the rights to anything but your own physical copy do not belong to you.
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including especially the question mark, quotation mark, colon, forward slash and asterix. For clarity and accuracy, any punctuation mark that's commonly used in everyday writing should be available for use in filenames going forward.
"Do I think taxes are too high. YES. Our government wastes money left and right but still its our responsbility to pay them."
Says you.
I have no children by choice, partly because I don't want the burden or expense of raising them. The education of your children are YOUR responsibility. The "goods" you consume, whether "public" or otherwise, must be paid for by YOU, or you're a thief.
To take my property against my will for any purpose, whether it benefits me or not, even if it's been approved by every voter in the nation, is theft.
Because that would involve presenting the receipt.
Who cares if the U.S. is a "shining example" for anything? A government program that doesn't let me decline to participate is slavery.
Neil Young won't permit the CD rerelease of his "Time Fades Away" LP, while the Grateful Dead cheerfully allows the mass-trading of recordings of their live shows. Those decisions are the artists to make.
Yes, you have the right to sing my song privately to yourself or for your friends. You do not have the right to reproduce my performance of it and distribute your reproduction of it. What you didn't create, in terms of copyright, isn't yours to dispose of. If I create the next Spider-man, you do not have the right to publish stories featuring him. The character was not "discovered," as unlike mathematics it doesn't exist in nature, but was invented. And if I spend millions of my or my employer's dollars to film a motion picture, you do not have the right to re-copy and distribute it when you purchase the DVD. Doesn't mean you won't put it out there anyway, depending on your level of immorality, or that you can be stopped if you do, but just because you CAN do it doesn't make it right. Intangible it may be, but that movie or song or character is property all the same, and the rights to anything but your own physical copy do not belong to you.
If I have no right to the song I create, who does? You? Society? Where'd you get it?