I'm pretty sure if someone in France decided to order me to delete something, I'd tell them to get stuffed.
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A few months ago it was really unclear that the CRTC would ever lean ever so slightly in the direction of the consumer, all indicated the contrary. A previous preliminary ruling for Bell traffic shaping of its wholesalers gave almost all authority in the hands of Bell. I'm amongst what is I'm sure a lot of fellow Canadian slashdotters that petitioned against it.
Also remember that the CRTC is an old organization that is not very adapted nor flexible enough to take a real stand in modern communication issues. I find it better that they keep a cautious neutral stand in slight favor of openess, net-neutrality and of consumers rights than simply closing their eyes like they used to do in the past years.
At least from now on we won't discover shaping practices by pure random amateur discovery but we will be notified and will be able to fully protest. It also opens the debate in a language the media will be able to understand.
A good thing overall IMO - but we'll have to wait and see.
An astronaut playing WoW during a 520 days trip to Mars while moving near the speed of light could barely get his character to level 40, while in the same time-span on earth his identical twin will easily have maxed the gear of 3 different characters.
(of course, one might argue that the astronaut simply is a n00b)
Look, can't you find what are your most pertinent job experiences and put them in one page? I don't care about a bullet-point list of all your little IT jobs.
Even Obama can do it:
- American President
- Nobel Peace Winner 2009
It's also the year in which Windows Vista adoption peaked.
I already adopted a Windows Vista and recommend everyone to do so - it's for such a good cause! For a couple hundreds of bucks they send you a round-framed picture of it. I have it on my fridge. Please, think of the poor Vistas struggling to live!
Okay, now that Microsoft makes an antivirus, someone explain to me why they haven't simply dedicated all this effort to debugging Windows, closing security holes and stabilizing code?
It's easier to research and market beauty creams than find the fountain of youth.
You are describing an impossible task. But you highlight correctly that AVs are full of BSs.
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Who modded that pissed-off smoker flamebait? Oh! I see what you did there...
This is a very nice subject, I'd like to see jurisprudence on this. I've been interested for a while on the rights you can retain from your public picture taken (usually none), but not about those on the other side of the camera. Is there a case where a family got sued by a wedding photographer and the photographer won in the US or Canada?
For me a photograph at a wedding is nothing more than a band hired to perform a gig at this same wedding where they don't hold musical score rights. They are both hired because they are technically competent, have some artistic insight and can provide a good service.
The photograph or band use their craftsmanship here, as a good auto-repairman or a good jeweller would do. Their intend is not of authorship, unless stated otherwise in their contract. If there is a matter of debate I think it is a matter of consumer right / false advertisment since of course, most photographs or artists in this situation will either be compliant or make a contract making all these things clear beforehand.
(of course, for a non-technical/non-for-hire artist - photograph or painter - I 100% agree with you)
Thanks for answering - yes I see your point and agree in part, in fact I knew I was getting in a slippery slope by using the word "private" here, but in this situation I think it kinda makes sense.
The scenarios you mention are blatant exemples of fair use that I don't think would get debated very much, but at its core fair use is a much more ideal, vaguely defined concept, even the law itself asserts so. And about the "has nothing to do with commercial application / profit" part of the argument I'd like to point out that 2 of the 4 fair-use factors mentioned in Copyright Law (section 107) point to commercial value so I would tend to think it is a big part of the equation:
1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes
2. The nature of the copyrighted work
3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work
I'd also like to point to (2) which considers the nature of the work. I would tend to think that in a trial, a wedding photography would be considered different than a commercial photo shoot of Birney Spears (or a Paparazzi shot for the matter).
Considering this, I think that in a trial, fair use reproduction of a wedding photograph would include:
- reframing
- copy for personal backup
- electronic copy
- use on a greeting card
- copy to put on display in the house
- copy to send to close family
- copy to put on a web page, on a Facebook profile etc.
And so on. I would really like to see literature suggesting otherwise.
Thus my main point is that copy-shops should not be held accountable for fair use violation (there could be some rule here, for instance as long as the number of copy asked remains small and is performed for an individual on a non-recurrent basis...)
He points out other roadblocks to development, such as Christmas party planning distractions
Yeah, because had everyone ordered supper and stayed late instead of going to the party and got in early the morning after instead of over-sleeping from alcohol intoxication during a Saturday, they surely would have made their deadline! Hey, they even provided the sleeping bags.
Oh, and Bob and Cindy spent a couple of hours planning the party each few weeks prior to it. 30 minutes of video footage lost right there!
Management primer: if you're seriously thinking about making your employees skip a Christmas party, the schedule started slipping a looong time ago!
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has given monkeys the ability ...
If you have a paralyzed limb and are on a budget, train the monkeys to fetch things for you instead. Problem solved, and you even got bonus company!
I'm pretty sure if someone in France decided to order me to delete something, I'd tell them to get stuffed.
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- Nicolas
She's an old f'*k that sings, hence disturbing my personal belief of finding my true love while grocery-shopping.
In the fuits section.
While testing melons.
Juicy... melons ... garrrr ...
At least it opens a debate.
A few months ago it was really unclear that the CRTC would ever lean ever so slightly in the direction of the consumer, all indicated the contrary. A previous preliminary ruling for Bell traffic shaping of its wholesalers gave almost all authority in the hands of Bell. I'm amongst what is I'm sure a lot of fellow Canadian slashdotters that petitioned against it.
Also remember that the CRTC is an old organization that is not very adapted nor flexible enough to take a real stand in modern communication issues. I find it better that they keep a cautious neutral stand in slight favor of openess, net-neutrality and of consumers rights than simply closing their eyes like they used to do in the past years.
At least from now on we won't discover shaping practices by pure random amateur discovery but we will be notified and will be able to fully protest. It also opens the debate in a language the media will be able to understand.
A good thing overall IMO - but we'll have to wait and see.
An astronaut playing WoW during a 520 days trip to Mars while moving near the speed of light could barely get his character to level 40, while in the same time-span on earth his identical twin will easily have maxed the gear of 3 different characters.
(of course, one might argue that the astronaut simply is a n00b)
in one, two, tree ...
The rest of the world is tired or hearing about your health-care issues. Please don't start with education fees!
Hint: most modern civilizations have free health-care + free education.
Another hint: the Red Dragon is awakening while you eat Doritos.
Acide (Deoxyribonucleic) Acid ... ...
ADN, DNA
Chemistry!!! Why aren't you language agnostic!!!!
You are forced to put the GNU notice in your resume and provide a blood sample in a test tube so they can sequence your ADN.
Look, can't you find what are your most pertinent job experiences and put them in one page? I don't care about a bullet-point list of all your little IT jobs.
Even Obama can do it:
- American President
- Nobel Peace Winner 2009
See, easy?
I learned about this TWO years ago.
And I'm FOURTEEN years old!
Government doesn't provide for citizens. It forces some citizens to provide for others.
It forces all citizens to provide for themselves. ... that's a less narcissist way to say it!
What happens if enough people get together and agree that certain people don't have rights? Such is called the tyranny of the majority.
If enough people call it Government, they will no longer call it Tyranny of the Majority :p
I think you Americans are full of Governments without having one.
Way to change the subject there.
Way to change the subject there!
Do you prefer yellow-snow spam? :)
Either you limit resale, or you limit copying.
Or you all get jobs as bricklayers.
Sounds to me like a spanish dicotomia! I never expect to see those!
It's also the year in which Windows Vista adoption peaked.
I already adopted a Windows Vista and recommend everyone to do so - it's for such a good cause! For a couple hundreds of bucks they send you a round-framed picture of it. I have it on my fridge. Please, think of the poor Vistas struggling to live!
Okay, now that Microsoft makes an antivirus, someone explain to me why they haven't simply dedicated all this effort to debugging Windows, closing security holes and stabilizing code?
It's easier to research and market beauty creams than find the fountain of youth.
You are describing an impossible task. But you highlight correctly that AVs are full of BSs.
Who modded that pissed-off smoker flamebait? Oh! I see what you did there ...
This is a very nice subject, I'd like to see jurisprudence on this. I've been interested for a while on the rights you can retain from your public picture taken (usually none), but not about those on the other side of the camera. Is there a case where a family got sued by a wedding photographer and the photographer won in the US or Canada?
For me a photograph at a wedding is nothing more than a band hired to perform a gig at this same wedding where they don't hold musical score rights. They are both hired because they are technically competent, have some artistic insight and can provide a good service.
The photograph or band use their craftsmanship here, as a good auto-repairman or a good jeweller would do. Their intend is not of authorship, unless stated otherwise in their contract. If there is a matter of debate I think it is a matter of consumer right / false advertisment since of course, most photographs or artists in this situation will either be compliant or make a contract making all these things clear beforehand.
(of course, for a non-technical/non-for-hire artist - photograph or painter - I 100% agree with you)
Thanks for answering - yes I see your point and agree in part, in fact I knew I was getting in a slippery slope by using the word "private" here, but in this situation I think it kinda makes sense.
The scenarios you mention are blatant exemples of fair use that I don't think would get debated very much, but at its core fair use is a much more ideal, vaguely defined concept, even the law itself asserts so. And about the "has nothing to do with commercial application / profit" part of the argument I'd like to point out that 2 of the 4 fair-use factors mentioned in Copyright Law (section 107) point to commercial value so I would tend to think it is a big part of the equation:
1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes
2. The nature of the copyrighted work
3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work
I'd also like to point to (2) which considers the nature of the work. I would tend to think that in a trial, a wedding photography would be considered different than a commercial photo shoot of Birney Spears (or a Paparazzi shot for the matter).
Considering this, I think that in a trial, fair use reproduction of a wedding photograph would include:
- reframing
- copy for personal backup
- electronic copy
- use on a greeting card
- copy to put on display in the house
- copy to send to close family
- copy to put on a web page, on a Facebook profile etc.
And so on. I would really like to see literature suggesting otherwise.
Thus my main point is that copy-shops should not be held accountable for fair use violation (there could be some rule here, for instance as long as the number of copy asked remains small and is performed for an individual on a non-recurrent basis ...)
Do you imply that you also had a generation of women reading Playboy?
Wow I really should visit this country!
That quote made me smile:
He points out other roadblocks to development, such as Christmas party planning distractions
Yeah, because had everyone ordered supper and stayed late instead of going to the party and got in early the morning after instead of over-sleeping from alcohol intoxication during a Saturday, they surely would have made their deadline! Hey, they even provided the sleeping bags.
Oh, and Bob and Cindy spent a couple of hours planning the party each few weeks prior to it. 30 minutes of video footage lost right there!
Management primer: if you're seriously thinking about making your employees skip a Christmas party, the schedule started slipping a looong time ago!
You do not talk about Linux.
Second rule ... you do NOT talk about Linux!!
The point? I think it's to lead you to their Zazzle store or make you buy Windows Sentinel after seeing their ads 6 times.