Now I can't wait to see what they ram through Congress before the end of the year to keep Steamboat Willie and Mickey Mouse out of the Public Domain. (p.s.: sarcasm there) That one is gonna make the Sony Bono Act jealous.
Oops, my mistake! Steamboat Willie won't hit Public Domain until January 1st, 2024. Plenty of time for Di$ney to fix that.
A quick note, just to get this out of the way at the start. I am a Conservative, deal with it. It however doesn't mean I agree or even like all the things they do. Just sayin'. So let's not go political on this, please. There's enough blame to go around. Now on to my comments.
So, the politicians caved into the pressure from the music industry and now pre 1972 recordings have been retroactively given Federal copyright status, taking away a lot of public domain songs. Great, just f***ing great. From the EFF's page on this:
The new bill also brings older recordings into the public domain sooner. Recordings made before 1923 will exit from all copyright protection after a 3-year grace period. Recordings made from 1923 to 1956 will enter the public domain over the next several decades. And recordings from 1957 onward will continue under copyright until 2067, as before. These terms are still ridiculously long—up to 110 years from first publication, which is longer than any other U.S. copyright..
Public Domain is becoming a joke worldwide. Why do they need copyright life +90 years? Especially with a lot of the rights are owned by mega-corporations (Looking at you, UMG) who keep fighting to get copyright extended and NEVER DIE like people. Corporation goes under, the assets, especially IP, get sold off to somebody else. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Also from that EFF page I quoted:
But our musical heritage will leave the exclusive control of the major record labels sooner than it would have otherwise.
Yeah, not much consolation there. They just keep on getting away with pushing the dates further and further back since they keep getting away with it. It is just how most, if not all politicians work. Money walks, bulls(*t walks.
Now I can't wait to see what they ram through Congress before the end of the year to keep Steamboat Willie and Mickey Mouse out of the Public Domain. (p.s.: sarcasm there) That one is gonna make the Sony Bono Act jealous.
And don't blame the just the President. BOTH Parties have their pockets lined by the music mega-corporations (still looking at you, UMG). It would have happened no matter WHO won the election (please, no party faction followups on this), because Congress would have overridden any theoretical and practically impossible chance of a veto ANY President would have put up. So I'm blaming all sides of the political spectrum on this one, even those few politicians I like.
Guess I'm gonna have to delete my music videos of 40s to 60s music on YouTube soon since they are gonna fold even more to the "rights holders". Damn shame too, because I did all the work copying them from the original LPs and cleaning up the audio since nobody is printing CDs of them. But, hey, it will make UMG(told you I was still looking at you, UMG a crap-ton more money!
Thanks, Congress, for selling us all out yet again. So much for all of them serving the public trust.
There are many in the Amateur Radio community that does not believe the propaganda, er, assertions that the ARRL is the savior and sole voice of Amateur Radio in the US (just look it up in the intro to any of their yearly ham radio handbooks, it's there in black and white) and maintain that the ARRL acronym actually stands for "Anal Retentive Regulation Lovers". They have done more in their history to build their power base and define what is and isn't a "proper" ham radio operator, damn near killing the hobby when they proposed and advocated "Incentive Licensing". Now their leadership wants to hide behind closed doors while they plan and scheme to increase their grip on the hobby.
And they wonder why their membership isn't growing....
You know these same three would have been some of the first to want to impeach the President if the system hadn't been tested and didn't work in a major emergency.
Trump and Republican Derangement Syndrome at it's finest right there.
Damn, I wish they would do this with the Post Office. A lot of thieves there and being civil service they are hard to get rid of, so they go right on stealing stuff.
I try to avoid sarcasm online. Back in the mid-90's I made some sarcastic comments about a flat earth trying to point how how stupid it was to avoid Occam's Razor. Then a decade later I see this Flat Earth movement and I fear I may had helped cause that. I now avoid Sarcasm on the internet.
Oh, so YOU are the one we have to blame for those loonies all over the place.
Everybody thinks I'm old-fashioned and laugh at me because I still buy CDs and DVDs, rip them, and then hold on to the physical media.
Who's laughing now smart guys?
Hell, I can't even get the contact page to pull up. This is pathetic. If this is how you run Blue Origin, Bezos, then Elon Musk has nothing to fear from you regarding SpaceX.
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Now I can't wait to see what they ram through Congress before the end of the year to keep Steamboat Willie and Mickey Mouse out of the Public Domain. (p.s.: sarcasm there) That one is gonna make the Sony Bono Act jealous.
Oops, my mistake! Steamboat Willie won't hit Public Domain until January 1st, 2024. Plenty of time for Di$ney to fix that.
Mea culpa.
So, the politicians caved into the pressure from the music industry and now pre 1972 recordings have been retroactively given Federal copyright status, taking away a lot of public domain songs. Great, just f***ing great. From the EFF's page on this:
The new bill also brings older recordings into the public domain sooner. Recordings made before 1923 will exit from all copyright protection after a 3-year grace period. Recordings made from 1923 to 1956 will enter the public domain over the next several decades. And recordings from 1957 onward will continue under copyright until 2067, as before. These terms are still ridiculously long—up to 110 years from first publication, which is longer than any other U.S. copyright..
EFF on Music Modernization Act
Public Domain is becoming a joke worldwide. Why do they need copyright life +90 years? Especially with a lot of the rights are owned by mega-corporations (Looking at you, UMG ) who keep fighting to get copyright extended and NEVER DIE like people. Corporation goes under, the assets, especially IP, get sold off to somebody else. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Also from that EFF page I quoted:
But our musical heritage will leave the exclusive control of the major record labels sooner than it would have otherwise.
Yeah, not much consolation there. They just keep on getting away with pushing the dates further and further back since they keep getting away with it. It is just how most, if not all politicians work. Money walks, bulls(*t walks.
Now I can't wait to see what they ram through Congress before the end of the year to keep Steamboat Willie and Mickey Mouse out of the Public Domain. (p.s.: sarcasm there) That one is gonna make the Sony Bono Act jealous.
And don't blame the just the President. BOTH Parties have their pockets lined by the music mega-corporations (still looking at you, UMG ). It would have happened no matter WHO won the election (please, no party faction followups on this), because Congress would have overridden any theoretical and practically impossible chance of a veto ANY President would have put up. So I'm blaming all sides of the political spectrum on this one, even those few politicians I like.
Guess I'm gonna have to delete my music videos of 40s to 60s music on YouTube soon since they are gonna fold even more to the "rights holders". Damn shame too, because I did all the work copying them from the original LPs and cleaning up the audio since nobody is printing CDs of them. But, hey, it will make UMG(told you I was still looking at you, UMG a crap-ton more money!
Thanks, Congress, for selling us all out yet again. So much for all of them serving the public trust.
There are many in the Amateur Radio community that does not believe the propaganda, er, assertions that the ARRL is the savior and sole voice of Amateur Radio in the US (just look it up in the intro to any of their yearly ham radio handbooks, it's there in black and white) and maintain that the ARRL acronym actually stands for "Anal Retentive Regulation Lovers". They have done more in their history to build their power base and define what is and isn't a "proper" ham radio operator, damn near killing the hobby when they proposed and advocated "Incentive Licensing". Now their leadership wants to hide behind closed doors while they plan and scheme to increase their grip on the hobby.
And they wonder why their membership isn't growing....
I seriously hope there were missing tags from the above comment. :)
There were, but the update deleted them....
I'm surprised that Apple is still around after decades of this cr#p.
You know these same three would have been some of the first to want to impeach the President if the system hadn't been tested and didn't work in a major emergency.
Trump and Republican Derangement Syndrome at it's finest right there.
Do they even make handcuffs for bots?
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
"Google, we're not evil. Well, no more than any other company...."
And why not, it worked with AT&T.
... Oh, wait....
Damn, I wish they would do this with the Post Office. A lot of thieves there and being civil service they are hard to get rid of, so they go right on stealing stuff.
OK, give me a minute and let me check in the US Constitution where the right to not be offended by something is.
...looking....
...looking...
... still looking...
...yep, still more looking...
Well, after a thorough search, there is NOTHING in the US Constitution granting anybody the right NOT to be offended.
So can we let this drop whole "I'm offended and you must stop it" crap already?
I try to avoid sarcasm online. Back in the mid-90's I made some sarcastic comments about a flat earth trying to point how how stupid it was to avoid Occam's Razor. Then a decade later I see this Flat Earth movement and I fear I may had helped cause that. I now avoid Sarcasm on the internet.
Oh, so YOU are the one we have to blame for those loonies all over the place.
Thanks.
(For the humor impaired, that was sarcasm.)
Everybody thinks I'm old-fashioned and laugh at me because I still buy CDs and DVDs, rip them, and then hold on to the physical media. Who's laughing now smart guys?
Actually, I was referring to the posting under a pseudonym.
Well, it all depends on what your definition of "is" is.
Pot, meet kettle.
You're new to the Internet, aren't you?
They could knock that button count down by half if they would just install the latest version of MechJeb.
That's easy, it's none.
Really? Because the people of Venezuela would care to disagree with you.
Yeah, you keep telling yourselves that when at work you have to say "Would you like fries with that, sir?"
California, with all it's major water shortages, won't go for pumping water BACK into Lake Mead and thus putting it's water in even shorter supply.
Yeah, because it wasn't like HIllary had a private email server with 30,000 government emails on them or anything....
I'm glitching and I am logged in. Hell, it keeps asking me to log in whenever I try to check out.
Hell, I can't even get the contact page to pull up. This is pathetic. If this is how you run Blue Origin, Bezos, then Elon Musk has nothing to fear from you regarding SpaceX.