It is true that not all plagiarism involves copyright infringement (for example, plagiarizing from the public domain, or with permission of the author as in your example). However, once you transfer the copyright of your paper to someone else (who passes it in as their own), you no longer own the copyright and cannot resell it to another student. It would be pretty hard to make money off that business model unless you sell each paper for a lot of money. Reminds me of the scene in the Rodney Dangerfield classic "Back to School" in which Dangerfield's character pays Kurt Vonnegut (playing himself in a cameo) to write a college paper on his own book. It gets a failing grade.
Sound like the "divorce" statistic that is often quoted: "50% of marriages end up in divorce". the truth is that there are just as many long term marriages as ever, but at one time divorcees did not remarry. Now it is common to remarry and (re)divorce, skewing the statistics.
That's part of it, but the biggest problem is how the 50% number is generated. It compares the number of people getting divorced to the number of people getting married in a single year. Since most people don't get married and divorced in the same year, the results are skewed. Even worse, most people currently getting divorced are baby boomers; a huge statistical bulge that recently married Gen-Xers can't hope to compensate for (much like social security). According to this report the divorce rate in the US has never been 50% even at it's peak in the 1970's and has been dropping since then.
And that is likewise absurd. If a vendor says, "if you want a contract with us, you need to price your product at $X on the store shelf" - isn't that contractual law, and shouldn't the store be free to accept or refuse to sign the contract, and succeed or fail by their actions?
But refusing means they can't sell the product at all. And if the vendor uses the same "contract" with all the retailers, that means the vendor is now setting the prices, so there is no longer competition between retailers. Whether the price is set artificially high or low doesn't matter to the law (though consumers are only likely to complain about price-fixing if the price is set artificially high, like for gasoline).
On the contrary. Fans of a 27 year old movie would be more likely to give a negative review if it didn't live up to the best of the franchise (think back to the pre-release reviews of "The Phantom Menace").
It would be like you or I deciding to make a clone of any major auto that isn't produced any more, but we just like. It doesn't work that way.
Actually, it does work that way. If you really want to (and have the money), you can build an entire brand-new 1965 Mustang out of third-party replacement parts.
(We'll leave aside the problem that nobody has demonstrated the existence of negative mass, I personally don't believe it could exist precisely because it would enable FTL, but that's seperate to this point.)
That's sounds like a circular argument:
Negative mass can't exist because it would allow FTL travel.
FTL travel can't exist because it would require negative mass.
It's "opt-out" meaning that unless you are careful, Google will start selling your books whether you want them to or not.
The problem with an opt-in system is that with the current near-perpetual copyright terms, there are lots of books that are still under copyright but long out-of-print (or worse, out-of-print and publisher out-of-business) with no way to contact the author (if they are still alive) or even determine who the current copyright holder is.
In the US, DCMA anti-circumvention laws prevent you from bypassing any kind of DRM, even if the thing the DRM is preventing you from doing is perfectly legal (like watching a foreign DVD or refilling an ink cartridge).
I'd be interested to know what legal position that puts you in however, since you know what you are doing is illegal, CYA letter or not. If your boss said to shoot his secretary and gave you a letter saying he told you to do it... I don't think it would hold up in court
You misunderstand the purpose. The CYA letter is not a get-out-of-jail-free card, it's a if-I-go-down-I'm-taking-you-with-me card.
- Then the game companies get the server shut down.
- Then the pirates move the server to country with more relaxed copyright laws.
- Then game companies get ISPs to block access to the server.
- Then the pirate server uses encrypted packets, etc.
- Then blocking software gets smarter.
- Then...
Please let us know which DVRs don't do that so we can be sure to never sign up for that service.
All the ones that don't require signing up for (and paying for) a service. TiVo is a great device but there's no way I'm paying them every month to use it. I have a Pioneer DVR that works just great (records to HD or DVD-R) but I have to reprogram it every time the schedule changes. Same is true for a lot of home-made DVRs like Myth-TV, Boxee, etc (yes, they can scrape websites for schedules but it is not consistantly reliable from what I understand).
I don't think DRM... should be stopped because I think authors should have a right to protect their labor from theft. How would you like to spend a year creating a document, and then your boss decides to take the document without paying you? In essence that's what happens to authors every time someone takes a book. It's stolen labor.
When someone borrows a book from the library and reads it without paying the author, is that also theft?
The practice is dangerous, said experts, and can run counter to laws ensuring government is open and accountable -- By using non-governmental email systems, "Your information is out there available, beyond the official mechanisms there to protect it,"
I don't understand. If the information is "out there available", how can that violate a law that the government is "open and accountable"? Sounds to me like that actually complies with the law, and a system with "official mechanism to protect it" would be violating that law.
Picked up on emergency? Can't talk? I hope you don't have any allergies or you could be killed by the response team.
That's why people with those conditions generally have a bracelet stating it (which EMTs are trained to look for). Compare that to the EHR: The guy can't talk? Check his wallet for a name. John Smith? Let me type that into the computer. Too many responses, what's his driver's license I.D.#? JSMITH234084329. Let me type that into the computer. Opps, we're in a dead zone for wireless internet coverage, we'll have to wait until we get the hospital.
Now, I'm not saying the EHR has no merit, I believe it does, I just don't think it is very useful in the situation you suggest (unless your EHR is stored on a subcutaneous RFID tag, but that raises even more privacy/security issues).
Or for that matter, even if said conviction is not even a crime in their country!
It's pretty hard to be convicted of something that isn't a crime. Even ignoring the conviction part, your statement is still not true. An admitted pot smoker from Holland (where it is legal) would not be denied entry to Canada, but a convicted pot smoker from pretty much anywhere else would be. The barrier to entry is not the fact that you smoke pot, but the fact that you are a convicted criminal.
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Democrats and Republicans both hate the constitution; they just hate different parts of it (1st amendment & 2nd amendment for example).
It is true that not all plagiarism involves copyright infringement (for example, plagiarizing from the public domain, or with permission of the author as in your example). However, once you transfer the copyright of your paper to someone else (who passes it in as their own), you no longer own the copyright and cannot resell it to another student. It would be pretty hard to make money off that business model unless you sell each paper for a lot of money. Reminds me of the scene in the Rodney Dangerfield classic "Back to School" in which Dangerfield's character pays Kurt Vonnegut (playing himself in a cameo) to write a college paper on his own book. It gets a failing grade.
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That's part of it, but the biggest problem is how the 50% number is generated. It compares the number of people getting divorced to the number of people getting married in a single year. Since most people don't get married and divorced in the same year, the results are skewed. Even worse, most people currently getting divorced are baby boomers; a huge statistical bulge that recently married Gen-Xers can't hope to compensate for (much like social security). According to this report the divorce rate in the US has never been 50% even at it's peak in the 1970's and has been dropping since then.
But refusing means they can't sell the product at all. And if the vendor uses the same "contract" with all the retailers, that means the vendor is now setting the prices, so there is no longer competition between retailers. Whether the price is set artificially high or low doesn't matter to the law (though consumers are only likely to complain about price-fixing if the price is set artificially high, like for gasoline).
On the contrary. Fans of a 27 year old movie would be more likely to give a negative review if it didn't live up to the best of the franchise (think back to the pre-release reviews of "The Phantom Menace").
Actually, it does work that way. If you really want to (and have the money), you can build an entire brand-new 1965 Mustang out of third-party replacement parts.
If I'm dead and my house is abandoned, knock yourself out.
What does it say when a blog site like Aintitcoolnews has more journalistic integrity than a cable network like Fox News?
That's sounds like a circular argument:
Pick your "Daily Show"-style punchline for this story:
No, but I've sat on a Chesterfield (it's a sofa, not a cigarette).
The problem with an opt-in system is that with the current near-perpetual copyright terms, there are lots of books that are still under copyright but long out-of-print (or worse, out-of-print and publisher out-of-business) with no way to contact the author (if they are still alive) or even determine who the current copyright holder is.
In the US, DCMA anti-circumvention laws prevent you from bypassing any kind of DRM, even if the thing the DRM is preventing you from doing is perfectly legal (like watching a foreign DVD or refilling an ink cartridge).
You misunderstand the purpose. The CYA letter is not a get-out-of-jail-free card, it's a if-I-go-down-I'm-taking-you-with-me card.
- Then the game companies get the server shut down. - Then the pirates move the server to country with more relaxed copyright laws. - Then game companies get ISPs to block access to the server. - Then the pirate server uses encrypted packets, etc. - Then blocking software gets smarter. - Then ...
Simpsons season 6, episode 21 ("The PTA Disbands").
Lawyer: I refer you to the case of Smelt It vs Dealt It.
All the ones that don't require signing up for (and paying for) a service. TiVo is a great device but there's no way I'm paying them every month to use it. I have a Pioneer DVR that works just great (records to HD or DVD-R) but I have to reprogram it every time the schedule changes. Same is true for a lot of home-made DVRs like Myth-TV, Boxee, etc (yes, they can scrape websites for schedules but it is not consistantly reliable from what I understand).
Preposterous! Human gullibility is one of the few things that has no limits.
When someone borrows a book from the library and reads it without paying the author, is that also theft?
Only if they release their modified source code.
I don't understand. If the information is "out there available", how can that violate a law that the government is "open and accountable"? Sounds to me like that actually complies with the law, and a system with "official mechanism to protect it" would be violating that law.
That's why people with those conditions generally have a bracelet stating it (which EMTs are trained to look for). Compare that to the EHR: The guy can't talk? Check his wallet for a name. John Smith? Let me type that into the computer. Too many responses, what's his driver's license I.D.#? JSMITH234084329. Let me type that into the computer. Opps, we're in a dead zone for wireless internet coverage, we'll have to wait until we get the hospital.
Now, I'm not saying the EHR has no merit, I believe it does, I just don't think it is very useful in the situation you suggest (unless your EHR is stored on a subcutaneous RFID tag, but that raises even more privacy/security issues).
It's pretty hard to be convicted of something that isn't a crime. Even ignoring the conviction part, your statement is still not true. An admitted pot smoker from Holland (where it is legal) would not be denied entry to Canada, but a convicted pot smoker from pretty much anywhere else would be. The barrier to entry is not the fact that you smoke pot, but the fact that you are a convicted criminal.