The only thing Disney demands - the only thing it has the right to demand - is that you plow your own row.
Funny how Disney never held themselves up to their own demands. They freely plowed old rows with: * Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs * Pinocchio * Cinderella * Alice in Wonderland * Sleeping Beauty * The Sword in the Stone * The Jungle Book * The Little Mermaid * Beauty and the Beast * Aladdin * Pocahontas * The Hunchback of Notre Dame * Hercules * Mulan * Tarzan
How dare Disney demand I plow my own row when they have not only plowed heavily from the public domain, they've ensured their own works will never enter it.
Clearly you hate everything Disney has produced. You also must dislike every iteration of Wizard of Oz. Any works of Shakespeare is clearly boring and old hat. Etc, etc.
While you might have this opinion, yours is an abberant, not the norm.
Right, my post wasn't worded as well as I'd have liked. I meant our current perpetual copyright lengths is clearly unconstitutional. Sure you can argue it follows the letter, but it clearly breaks the spirit. Why bother having a constitution to guarantee certain freedoms if you're going to go around breaking the intent of it?
If society determines that our culture and society is best served by a copyright term of 5 years, then so be it. At the moment, copyright is effectively infinite thanks to companies like Disney constantly buying themselves extensions.
The travesty here isn't that someone is writing sequels to the original series. The travesty is that his heirs still have a monopoly on the series, 57 years later.
People writing sequels to books is the right for society to continue to enrichen our culture. Regardless of the quality of the works that will be produced, society grows by garnering inspiration and aid from past works. I'm sure Shakespeare has inspired and helped many a person in learning the trade of creating stories. The tragedy here is that companies like Disney reap all of the benefits of the public domain, while ensuring very little will ever be added back to it.
Before I get attacked by those who believe you have a right for all time to your ideas, this is a modern construct. Society managed to survive millenia without the damn thing. And as someone who seeks to earn their living in the software industry, I would quite happily place my work in the public domain voluntarily after a period of 25 years.
Wow, you're right. They are winning. As much as I dismiss the Wii (I like to play turn-based RPGs. Not that many/any on the Wii), it has surpassed both the Xbox360 and the PS3.
I wonder what this means for the future of gaming.
You realise our internet censorship plans have been scrapped don't you? You should actually hope America follows our current internet censorship policy. Because we don't have one.
Imagine if everything worked like that. "You do have the right to a lawyer. But if you exercise this right, we won't be releasing you from detainment."
Considering how corrupt and awful the US has become, I'd actually say its understandable to want to secede from it. Unfortunately America is likely to go to war with you if you try (especially if you follow the law in seceeding).
But hey, its still the land of the free. Free to lose your home if you get sick. Free to die if you lose your job. Free to not enjoy the cultural works of the past many decades without paying extortion.
I believe the US government has done that quite a bit this year, what with all the bailouts its provided for companies whose CEOs rake in millions while the company itself is apparently going bankrupt..
The truth is I have a few outside projects every now and again,
Then by your own admittance you do program in your free time. Therefore you do not have the attitude exhibited by Ted over there with the direct quote from him
I don't code in my free time.
You do code in your free time. It might not be often. In fact it might be damn rare. But it does happen.
Your also posts suggests you in fact did program outside of work hours when you were younger. Ted isn't making his blogpost from the perspective of someone like you (at least, the impression I get of you from reading your post. I could be misconstruing you completely). He's saying he has programmed outside of paid hours a maximum of 5 times.
The entire blogpost comes across as a shock-jock for geeks. He immediately takes the position of "I know better than you youngsters" and proceeds to insult and berate anyone who doesn't agree with him.
Frankly, he sounds like myself when I was younger;)
Aaah, but Ted and Skral have hit upon a secret you obviously haven't. They code all that sort of rubbish during their work time.
Fortunately their bosses haven't discovered this secret yet either. Or else they'd be talking about how they only code when they're not in the unemployment line.
Sure, but he not only gave Apple a license, he gave them the rights entirely. I wrote it in a book and said "I was inspired" so therefore it must be true.
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The only thing Disney demands - the only thing it has the right to demand - is that you plow your own row.
Funny how Disney never held themselves up to their own demands. They freely plowed old rows with:
* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
* Pinocchio
* Cinderella
* Alice in Wonderland
* Sleeping Beauty
* The Sword in the Stone
* The Jungle Book
* The Little Mermaid
* Beauty and the Beast
* Aladdin
* Pocahontas
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* Hercules
* Mulan
* Tarzan
How dare Disney demand I plow my own row when they have not only plowed heavily from the public domain, they've ensured their own works will never enter it.
Clearly you hate everything Disney has produced. You also must dislike every iteration of Wizard of Oz. Any works of Shakespeare is clearly boring and old hat. Etc, etc.
While you might have this opinion, yours is an abberant, not the norm.
Right, my post wasn't worded as well as I'd have liked. I meant our current perpetual copyright lengths is clearly unconstitutional. Sure you can argue it follows the letter, but it clearly breaks the spirit. Why bother having a constitution to guarantee certain freedoms if you're going to go around breaking the intent of it?
I agree. They could also get into the assassin business, so they can stop people like you from polluting the internet.
Which just goes to show IP laws are even more screwed then the unconstitutional existence of copyright.
If society determines that our culture and society is best served by a copyright term of 5 years, then so be it. At the moment, copyright is effectively infinite thanks to companies like Disney constantly buying themselves extensions.
The travesty here isn't that someone is writing sequels to the original series. The travesty is that his heirs still have a monopoly on the series, 57 years later.
People writing sequels to books is the right for society to continue to enrichen our culture. Regardless of the quality of the works that will be produced, society grows by garnering inspiration and aid from past works. I'm sure Shakespeare has inspired and helped many a person in learning the trade of creating stories. The tragedy here is that companies like Disney reap all of the benefits of the public domain, while ensuring very little will ever be added back to it.
Before I get attacked by those who believe you have a right for all time to your ideas, this is a modern construct. Society managed to survive millenia without the damn thing. And as someone who seeks to earn their living in the software industry, I would quite happily place my work in the public domain voluntarily after a period of 25 years.
No your honour, this isn't illegal child porn. Its a series of 1s and 0s.
Wow, you're right. They are winning. As much as I dismiss the Wii (I like to play turn-based RPGs. Not that many/any on the Wii), it has surpassed both the Xbox360 and the PS3.
I wonder what this means for the future of gaming.
You realise our internet censorship plans have been scrapped don't you? You should actually hope America follows our current internet censorship policy. Because we don't have one.
Imagine if everything worked like that. "You do have the right to a lawyer. But if you exercise this right, we won't be releasing you from detainment."
If only your vision was 2020.
I'd mod you up if I had the points ;)
I'm impressed that people's tolerance for poor editing has increased to such a high degree that Google Translate can almost go by unnoticed.
And by impressed, I mean depressed.
Considering how corrupt and awful the US has become, I'd actually say its understandable to want to secede from it. Unfortunately America is likely to go to war with you if you try (especially if you follow the law in seceeding).
But hey, its still the land of the free. Free to lose your home if you get sick. Free to die if you lose your job. Free to not enjoy the cultural works of the past many decades without paying extortion.
So we're trampling on peoples rights because its more convenient? With that mentality how did slavery ever get abolished in America?
I believe the US government has done that quite a bit this year, what with all the bailouts its provided for companies whose CEOs rake in millions while the company itself is apparently going bankrupt..
Why only two adults? What if three consenting adults which to form a civil union?
Neither. Clearly he's unemplpoyed.
Which is funny because one of the most diligent people I know when it comes to work is a European.
Perhaps there's a collory which is "Australians? Too fucking lazy to work."
The truth is I have a few outside projects every now and again,
Then by your own admittance you do program in your free time. Therefore you do not have the attitude exhibited by Ted over there with the direct quote from him
I don't code in my free time.
You do code in your free time. It might not be often. In fact it might be damn rare. But it does happen.
Your also posts suggests you in fact did program outside of work hours when you were younger. Ted isn't making his blogpost from the perspective of someone like you (at least, the impression I get of you from reading your post. I could be misconstruing you completely). He's saying he has programmed outside of paid hours a maximum of 5 times.
The entire blogpost comes across as a shock-jock for geeks. He immediately takes the position of "I know better than you youngsters" and proceeds to insult and berate anyone who doesn't agree with him.
Frankly, he sounds like myself when I was younger ;)
Aaah, but Ted and Skral have hit upon a secret you obviously haven't. They code all that sort of rubbish during their work time.
Fortunately their bosses haven't discovered this secret yet either. Or else they'd be talking about how they only code when they're not in the unemployment line.
I asked Ted's wife what's more awesome then spending her time with him. Her response? "Fucking anything!"
Fortunately for me I'm not Ted.
Fair enough. I willingly admit, I don't know about the intracacies of lawyers and their legal actions.
If this can be resolved entirely through a government organisation (one way or another) then all the better.
Of course, this could be a percursor to a lawsuit in which case we're back at square one ;)
Doesn't God have prior art?
Sure, but he not only gave Apple a license, he gave them the rights entirely. I wrote it in a book and said "I was inspired" so therefore it must be true.