ShakespeareCorp doesn't legislate for his plays to be kept in copyright every time they come close to entering the public domain.
The copyright on the plays during that era was owned by the theater company. Shakespeare made his money from being a writer, an actor and a theater owner, which he later invested in land. Neither he nor his estate received any royalty income from his plays after his retirement and death.
And would we ever have heard of Shakespeare had he not done the same?
The copyright for Shakespeare's plays were owned by the theater company. Book publishers routinely disregarded copyright by publishing stuff willy-nilly, including Shakespeare's love poems that were circulating privately among friends. We know about Shakespeare's plays today only because the remaining owners of the theater company published a folio in tribute after his death.
Sure you can. As long as your work is substantially different from Tolkien. For example: The Belgariad by David Eddings, The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks, and The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.
ImDB lists about 200 film. musical comedy and television productions based on "Cinderella." Disney owns the rights to maybe four of them.
You can still write a story or make a movie about Dracula, Frankenstein or Wolf Man based on the public domain stories. What you can't do is based your characters on the iconic Universal monster movies, as Universal has a copyright for what the characters looked in the movie. Movies featuring these monsters go out of their way to avoid looking exactly like the Universal monsters. Universal is making a new set of monster movies to extend the copyright for another century.
Unless you lived in total isolation your entire life, the probability of that happening is nil
Let's consider two examples from YouTube. One person spends 30 minute talking about a movie with a still shot of the publicly released movie poster in the background. Another person spends 15 minutes talking the same move while showing 15 minutes of the movie taken from another video. Who has original content and who is getting slapped with a fair use violation?
The best way to avoid the fair use problem is to create your own original content rather than building off of someone else's copyrighted content and claiming it as your original.
Frankly, it's pretty weird that people have swallowed the marketing that these 800 dollar pocket computers should be disposed of every year or two.
From what I read in The Wall Street Journal this morning, more iPhone users are taking three years to upgrade. I usually trade in my phone after 3+ years.
How did you manage to get an iPhone for $200? Either you're paying the carrier more than you should be every month, or you bought a used one off somebody else.
The $200 is what I paid upfront for the iPhone and accessories on a two-year-contract. Being a Sprint customer for 20+ years and that I kept my last phone for three years probably helped.
You seem to have misunderstood - I meant that the cost of a quality 8GB chip might be around $8, while a 32 GB chip would be only $10 or so, so 25% greater expenditure on a relatively inexpensive component gets you a 400% increase in capacity.
Because I'm using 8GB out of a 16GB iPhone, you inferred that I wanted an 8GB iPhone? You misunderstood me. I got a 16GB iPhone because that was the base model. When I trade in this iPhone, the next base model will have 32GB (or maybe 64GB). But I'm not going to lust after the 128GB iPhone. I can't even fill out the space on the iPhone that I got.
That may be true, but a reasonable person with a not extraordinary amount of apps, photos, and music can fill up a 16GB phone pretty easily these days.
What's the point of bitching about the iPhone for having limited memory when buying an iPhone with the least amount of memory available? Run out of space, manage it. Need an iPhone with more memory, upgrade on the next cycle.
Because it's difficult to anticipate future needs, and paring down to just the 8GB you're using probably still costs you $8.
My iPhone came with 16GB. The cost for the memory was included in the price. That I only use 8GB doesn't mean it cost me more.
[...] maybe 2TB these days, I haven't ben paying attention for a while [...]
Last year I replaced the five 300GB hard drives in my file server with five 1TB hard drives that I picked up for $50 each. Most of the 300GB hard drives were failing after five years of 24/7 service. Now I have three times the extra space that I had before in a RAID-6 configuration. I'm not going to spend $500 on 2TB drives to have six times the extra space. In five years, I'll buy whatever hard drive capacity is on sale for $50 each to replace the current drives that I now own.
If you just buy the cheap $200 Android phone that works perfectly fine as a phone, like the MotoG, then you could spend the remaining $500 and get a DSLR Camera.
My current iPhone was $200 with case and screen protector. Since I'm not a professional photographer, I'm not going to spend $500 on a DSLR. The people I know who are professional photographers own $1,000+ DSLRs.
See? Just because YOU don't need more than 8 GB doesn't mean NO ONE does.
When I had a first-generation 8GB iPod Touch, I only used 4GB on that device. I had the Touch for eight years before the battery died and I replaced it with an iPhone, which was cheaper than the current generation iPod Touch at the time.
I'd love to hear from the "someone else" who thinks that creimer's opinion that he doesn't need more storage space is useful to them.
If this was a business meeting, you would be the bullying boss who ridicules someone for asking a stupid question that "someone else" was afraid to ask for fear of being ridiculed. You're the problem, not the solution.
Why is how much storage you have free on your 16GB phone at all relevant to the conversation?
Because having more isn't always the answer. Most people don't deal with what they have, always yearn for what they don't have, and make life miserable for everyone else.
You are aware that there are people who are not you, yes? And they may have different needs?
I'm just offering my opinion. If you don't find my opinion useful, I'm sure someone else will.
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Honestly, I see absolutely NOTHING "drool-worthy" in the desktop environments that Linux users suffer with.
That's why I use the command line.
DMCA is evil. Are you evil too?
Nope. Just protecting my copyrights.
In it's present state copyright is theft.
I'll remember that the next time I file a DMCA takedown request.
I don't care about copyright
Spoken like a true millennial.
ShakespeareCorp doesn't legislate for his plays to be kept in copyright every time they come close to entering the public domain.
The copyright on the plays during that era was owned by the theater company. Shakespeare made his money from being a writer, an actor and a theater owner, which he later invested in land. Neither he nor his estate received any royalty income from his plays after his retirement and death.
And would we ever have heard of Shakespeare had he not done the same?
The copyright for Shakespeare's plays were owned by the theater company. Book publishers routinely disregarded copyright by publishing stuff willy-nilly, including Shakespeare's love poems that were circulating privately among friends. We know about Shakespeare's plays today only because the remaining owners of the theater company published a folio in tribute after his death.
You can't even build on Tolkien.
Sure you can. As long as your work is substantially different from Tolkien. For example: The Belgariad by David Eddings, The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks, and The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.
ImDB lists about 200 film. musical comedy and television productions based on "Cinderella." Disney owns the rights to maybe four of them.
You can still write a story or make a movie about Dracula, Frankenstein or Wolf Man based on the public domain stories. What you can't do is based your characters on the iconic Universal monster movies, as Universal has a copyright for what the characters looked in the movie. Movies featuring these monsters go out of their way to avoid looking exactly like the Universal monsters. Universal is making a new set of monster movies to extend the copyright for another century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Monsters_(2014_film_series)
Unless you lived in total isolation your entire life, the probability of that happening is nil
Let's consider two examples from YouTube. One person spends 30 minute talking about a movie with a still shot of the publicly released movie poster in the background. Another person spends 15 minutes talking the same move while showing 15 minutes of the movie taken from another video. Who has original content and who is getting slapped with a fair use violation?
The best way to avoid the fair use problem is to create your own original content rather than building off of someone else's copyrighted content and claiming it as your original.
Yeah, and I paid $100K upfront for my house, and a 30-year contract.
A down payment for a home is not the same as a payment for a phone.
It doesn't mean that I got the house for $100K, and you didn't get an iPhone for $200.
That's funny. Sprint has never wanted any of my old phones back after I owned them for three years. I still have several older phones in my drawer.
Why did you replace your 300GBs with 1TB? Why didn't you just stick with sales on 300 or 500GB and pay, say $45?
The Western Digital 1TB Red NAS drives were on sale.
Frankly, it's pretty weird that people have swallowed the marketing that these 800 dollar pocket computers should be disposed of every year or two.
From what I read in The Wall Street Journal this morning, more iPhone users are taking three years to upgrade. I usually trade in my phone after 3+ years.
You're right. This is all opinion. Except that you're in a very, very small minority. Your opinion does not matter. This is a fact.
So what? This is Slashdot.
How did you manage to get an iPhone for $200? Either you're paying the carrier more than you should be every month, or you bought a used one off somebody else.
The $200 is what I paid upfront for the iPhone and accessories on a two-year-contract. Being a Sprint customer for 20+ years and that I kept my last phone for three years probably helped.
You seem to have misunderstood - I meant that the cost of a quality 8GB chip might be around $8, while a 32 GB chip would be only $10 or so, so 25% greater expenditure on a relatively inexpensive component gets you a 400% increase in capacity.
Because I'm using 8GB out of a 16GB iPhone, you inferred that I wanted an 8GB iPhone? You misunderstood me. I got a 16GB iPhone because that was the base model. When I trade in this iPhone, the next base model will have 32GB (or maybe 64GB). But I'm not going to lust after the 128GB iPhone. I can't even fill out the space on the iPhone that I got.
That may be true, but a reasonable person with a not extraordinary amount of apps, photos, and music can fill up a 16GB phone pretty easily these days.
What's the point of bitching about the iPhone for having limited memory when buying an iPhone with the least amount of memory available? Run out of space, manage it. Need an iPhone with more memory, upgrade on the next cycle.
'm sorry, but you're opinion is pretty unhelpful.
That's your opinion. But I'm not going to tell you that you shouldn't have expressed your opinion even though I don't find it helpful.
I wouldn't buy an Apple phone...
Yet, here you are, bitching about Apple phones that you don't plan to buy.
Because it's difficult to anticipate future needs, and paring down to just the 8GB you're using probably still costs you $8.
My iPhone came with 16GB. The cost for the memory was included in the price. That I only use 8GB doesn't mean it cost me more.
[...] maybe 2TB these days, I haven't ben paying attention for a while [...]
Last year I replaced the five 300GB hard drives in my file server with five 1TB hard drives that I picked up for $50 each. Most of the 300GB hard drives were failing after five years of 24/7 service. Now I have three times the extra space that I had before in a RAID-6 configuration. I'm not going to spend $500 on 2TB drives to have six times the extra space. In five years, I'll buy whatever hard drive capacity is on sale for $50 each to replace the current drives that I now own.
If you just buy the cheap $200 Android phone that works perfectly fine as a phone, like the MotoG, then you could spend the remaining $500 and get a DSLR Camera.
My current iPhone was $200 with case and screen protector. Since I'm not a professional photographer, I'm not going to spend $500 on a DSLR. The people I know who are professional photographers own $1,000+ DSLRs.
See? Just because YOU don't need more than 8 GB doesn't mean NO ONE does.
When I had a first-generation 8GB iPod Touch, I only used 4GB on that device. I had the Touch for eight years before the battery died and I replaced it with an iPhone, which was cheaper than the current generation iPod Touch at the time.
I'd love to hear from the "someone else" who thinks that creimer's opinion that he doesn't need more storage space is useful to them.
If this was a business meeting, you would be the bullying boss who ridicules someone for asking a stupid question that "someone else" was afraid to ask for fear of being ridiculed. You're the problem, not the solution.
Apple being scumbags not offering enough RAM in the first place and not providing a MicroSD slot for simple space upgrade.
Nothing is stopping you from buying an Android phone.
Why is how much storage you have free on your 16GB phone at all relevant to the conversation?
Because having more isn't always the answer. Most people don't deal with what they have, always yearn for what they don't have, and make life miserable for everyone else.
You are aware that there are people who are not you, yes? And they may have different needs?
I'm just offering my opinion. If you don't find my opinion useful, I'm sure someone else will.