This case illustrates terrible misunderstandings that are almost universal now about copyright. Turnitin does not *publish* ANYTHING!! If the students really have copyright on their works (not automatic, they had to jump through lots of hoops), then noone else can PUBLISH them. Copyright law has nothing to say about who can and cannot profit, in some ambiguous way, from any work.
Imagine that this suit is successful. Now Pandora will have to pay royalties every time they compare some users taste to some song in their database, whether they stream it to that user or not. The royalties will be for any use of any kind by Pandora, not for streaming (ie. publishing) the song.
Or here's a further out example: I go to a job interview and I make a quote from George Orwell's '1984' that impresses my prospective boss and I get the job. Now I should have to pay for copyright infringement because when I bought the book I only had the right to read it, not to profit from reading it?
This lawsuit is pure BS, and a publicity stunt by these students.
Check out "The Elements". It's not exactly helpful for memorizing the periodic table, but it's fun to try to sing. Also "New Math". He has many other science related songs, being a mathemetician himself.
Forrester simply made the common mistake that people always make regarding OSs and software in general. He thinks that if Slackware can't "beat" all of its "competition", then it doesn't matter. As long as anyone still maintains Slackware, and someone else uses it, things are exactly as they should be.
The same applies to Linux v Windows v OSX v Solaris v... There doesn't have to be a "winner" here. I for one wish there were more operating systems, it would only encourage standards and inter-operability.
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"the different divisions have little or nothing to do with each other."
except being owned by the same shareholders. It is the shareholders (read: owners) of the company as a whole that have to be hurt if the company's practices are going to change.
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Did anyone else notice the acronym of the headline? sorry, tate
wow, I hope you feel better. You know, there are real people at the other end of these intertube-thingies.
This case illustrates terrible misunderstandings that are almost universal now about copyright. Turnitin does not *publish* ANYTHING!! If the students really have copyright on their works (not automatic, they had to jump through lots of hoops), then noone else can PUBLISH them. Copyright law has nothing to say about who can and cannot profit, in some ambiguous way, from any work.
Imagine that this suit is successful. Now Pandora will have to pay royalties every time they compare some users taste to some song in their database, whether they stream it to that user or not. The royalties will be for any use of any kind by Pandora, not for streaming (ie. publishing) the song.
Or here's a further out example: I go to a job interview and I make a quote from George Orwell's '1984' that impresses my prospective boss and I get the job. Now I should have to pay for copyright infringement because when I bought the book I only had the right to read it, not to profit from reading it?
This lawsuit is pure BS, and a publicity stunt by these students.
It is very important, and cannot be overstated, that OSS does not have a leader.
Check out "The Elements". It's not exactly helpful for memorizing the periodic table, but it's fun to try to sing. Also "New Math". He has many other science related songs, being a mathemetician himself.
Forrester simply made the common mistake that people always make regarding OSs and software in general. He thinks that if Slackware can't "beat" all of its "competition", then it doesn't matter. As long as anyone still maintains Slackware, and someone else uses it, things are exactly as they should be.
... There doesn't have to be a "winner" here. I for one wish there were more operating systems, it would only encourage standards and inter-operability.
The same applies to Linux v Windows v OSX v Solaris v
"the different divisions have little or nothing to do with each other."
except being owned by the same shareholders. It is the shareholders (read: owners) of the company as a whole that have to be hurt if the company's practices are going to change.
Wow! I better start drinking Mountain Dew!