Copyrighted works are not private property. They belong to the public; the copyright holder merely holds a "limited time" monopoly on its publication. When the lease ends, the work goes to the public domain where it belongs. WE ALL OWN THE ART.
If you're going to shill for the MAFIAA you might want to register an account so your comment won't be so invisible.
The entire continent of North America is in pretty bad shape as far as copyright law is concerned. Besides, America is a country, North America and South America are continents.
Going for "funny" is hazardous to your karma; some folks have no sense of humor and will mod you flamebait, troll, or overrated. But in many cases, a comment can be both funny and insightful, as this one was.
That's what you get when you elect a Republican legislature and a Republican Governor. I'm in a union and damned glad of it. I can only be fired for cause.
It doesn't do "little to help the creative industry as a whole" but in fact harms creativity (unless you have shiploads of money, which artists seldom do). Like science and technology, art is built on what has come before. So you have outrages like ZZ Top being sued for "Ahow how how" which was in a Howlin' Wolf song decades before La Grange was recorded, Eddie Money was sued for the phrase "Whatever will be will be, the future is ours, you see" by the guy who wrote "Que Sara Sara", George Harrison being sued because "My Sweet Lord" has the same chords and is vaguely similar in tune to "She's So Fine".
It's insane. Today's copyright law is a huge drain on creativity. Imagine how technological progress would suffer if patents lasted as long as copyrights?
Hogwash. There's no scarcity of creativity or artistry whatever. Hell, there are dozens of local bands here in my city of 100,000 who have CDs of original content, most of which is far superior to the dreck that comes from the RIAA. Have a listen to some of my friends' music. Those are live shows, they have studio CDs as well.
There's no shortage whatever. The "shortage" has always been because of the fact that recording and filming were incredibly expensive. Today recording is dirt cheap, and the price of making a movie is coming down fast -- Star Wreck only cost a few thousand bucks and is better than 90% of the multimillion dollar dreck that comes from Hollywood (it's also hilarious, every Star Trek and Babylon Five fan should see that movie).
TFA says the writer doesn't understand why CC should be baked into copyright, well, I'm no lawyer and I don't speak Russian, but perhaps he's doing what I've suggested all along -- that no noncommercial copying be deemed "infringing". You're no more going to stop P2P file sharers than you're going to stop potheads from smoking, or stop people from drinking back in the 1920s.
Noncommercial "infringement" doesn't harm anyone, and studies show that "piracy" actually increases sales. Music pirates spend more money of music than non-pirates. A book publisher commissioned a study a couple of years ago to find out how much piracy hurt sales, and was flabbergasted to find that there was a second sales "spike" when the pirate version hit the web.
The RIAA is at war with their competetion, the indies. The indies rely on P2P and the web, while the RIAA has radio. If there were no such thing as radio, the RIAA would embrace file sharing. Hell, back in the 1950s there was a "payola" scandal where RIAA labels would PAY to have their songs on the radio.
As Cory Doctorow (who gives his ebooks away for free on boingboing) says, nobody ever went broke from piracy, but many artists have starved from obscurity.
It's still dark at 7:30 in the winter. Someone who didn't work until 9:00 wouldn't be getting up much earlier. It may have been a Saturday as well; I used to live next door to an elderly man who'd piss me off no end, firing up his lawnmower at 8:00 AM every Saturday, the one day I could sleep late. He was retired so he could have cut the damned lawn any day of the week.
our employers can suspend/terminate our employment for very similar reasons if our names are associated with them somehow. My former employer was well known for terminating employees for any number of out of work/no-work-related offsenses such as: getting in a bar brawl at the local titty bar (purportedly regarding one man banging the other man's wife), publishing some anti-Chinese government screed after having been sent there for 6 months by said employer, and expressing displeasure at the termination of another employee for recreational marijuana use off-campus and after hours.
That's what unions are for. Whether or not you're in a union, you'd be a fool to work without a contract that prohibited the employer from pulling those sorts of shenanigans.
There is no contract for public schools; you're required to go by law. That's a big difference. As to sports bringing in money, well in universities they do, but I don't see how sports can bring money in for a public school. It's not like you're charging a lot of money to see a high school football game.
Then you'd hate this Leonard Nimoy video (thanks for the link go to Captain Splendid, who posted it in a journal a few days ago). I thought it and the kid's video were both funny. But at 59 I guess I'm too damned old to grow up, and Nimoy's WAY too old to grow up.
If it was homework, the school has a right to give it a low score and nothing else. And someone earlier mentioned "moral tone". The schools shouldn't be trying to teach morality, that's up to the parents. Some people think drinking is immoral, some people think there's nothing wrong with adultery. The school has no right shove its morals down your kids' throats -- that's YOUR job.
"Funny" is in the mind of the beholder and is completely subjective. Lots of folks think Monty Python is mindless garbage, I think it's hilarious. But whether or not one thinks it's funny or garbage is completely beside the point. The point is, this kid was denied his rights, and that's just plain wrong.
They like to get you in a compromising position They like to get you there and smile in your face They think they're so cute when they got you in that condition Well I think it's a total disgrace
CHORUS: I fight authority, Authority always wins I fight authority, Authority always wins I been doing it since I was a young kid I come out grinnin' I fight authority, Authority always wins
So I call up my preacher I say, "Give me strength for Round 5." He said , "You don't need no strength, you need to grow up son." I said, "Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying "And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun."
CHORUS
Oh no oh no I fight authority Authority always wins
I don't know about Canada, but down here in the US the schools' primary purpose seems to be removal of all traces of curiosity and creativity. Ever notice that when budgets get cut, the first things to go are art and music, but never sports?
Nope, if anything it's even worse. These days metamoderation is like free mod points without the constraints you have with mod points; you'll sometimes get your own comments to metamod, or comments you just moderated yourself.
I usually mod controversial comments "interesting" unless it's written in an inflammatory tone or just plain ignorant. Posts that really don't say anything are what I downmod. If you're starting at a 1 it's not likely to hurt your karma; I've been modbombed before with someone using all their mod points on me, and the bombs never had any effect, so one downmod surely won't. Hell, sometimes I';; ask to be downmodded if I stray off topic, since the "no bonus" checkboxes don't seem to work.
Like this one.
I'll mod controversial comments up even when I disagree. I mean, that's the whole purpose of the site, discussion and debate.
What pisses me off are fanboys, especially Sony fanboys. Say anything negative about somebody's favorite company and they mod you down in a heartbeat.
I read fast, and I'll have a lot of spare time in 3 years -- I'm retiring then. I miss summers when I was a kid and could spend all day reading. I'm looking forward to being able to do that again, it's been a LONG time.
Metamoderation is wierd; sometimes my own comments come up, sometimes comments I've just moderated come up.
I had 15 points just this Wednesday. But it does seem that there is less momoderation lately; 100 comments with all at 1 or less. Maybe all of the mods but me are downmodding? (Of the 15 I had, all but two were upmods)
It wasn't in her dictionary. She had a small, very abridged dictionary and wasn't going to listen to me even after I defined the word. What kind of teacher? Obviously, a very bad one.
Neither the stockholders nor the employees are innocent bystanders. Anyone who didn't unload Sony stock after XCP is begging to lose their investment, and the employees implemented the evil policies. The stockholders and employees ARE Sony and deserve whatever misfortune befalls them for Sony's foul deeds. Nobody who buys Sony should expect to not be victimized by Sony. I have no sympathy for Sony stockholders, Sony employees, or Sony customers at all.
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True, but we're talking about art, not engineering.
Copyrighted works are not private property. They belong to the public; the copyright holder merely holds a "limited time" monopoly on its publication. When the lease ends, the work goes to the public domain where it belongs. WE ALL OWN THE ART.
If you're going to shill for the MAFIAA you might want to register an account so your comment won't be so invisible.
The entire continent of North America is in pretty bad shape as far as copyright law is concerned. Besides, America is a country, North America and South America are continents.
Going for "funny" is hazardous to your karma; some folks have no sense of humor and will mod you flamebait, troll, or overrated. But in many cases, a comment can be both funny and insightful, as this one was.
That's what you get when you elect a Republican legislature and a Republican Governor. I'm in a union and damned glad of it. I can only be fired for cause.
It doesn't do "little to help the creative industry as a whole" but in fact harms creativity (unless you have shiploads of money, which artists seldom do). Like science and technology, art is built on what has come before. So you have outrages like ZZ Top being sued for "Ahow how how" which was in a Howlin' Wolf song decades before La Grange was recorded, Eddie Money was sued for the phrase "Whatever will be will be, the future is ours, you see" by the guy who wrote "Que Sara Sara", George Harrison being sued because "My Sweet Lord" has the same chords and is vaguely similar in tune to "She's So Fine".
It's insane. Today's copyright law is a huge drain on creativity. Imagine how technological progress would suffer if patents lasted as long as copyrights?
Hogwash. There's no scarcity of creativity or artistry whatever. Hell, there are dozens of local bands here in my city of 100,000 who have CDs of original content, most of which is far superior to the dreck that comes from the RIAA. Have a listen to some of my friends' music. Those are live shows, they have studio CDs as well.
There's no shortage whatever. The "shortage" has always been because of the fact that recording and filming were incredibly expensive. Today recording is dirt cheap, and the price of making a movie is coming down fast -- Star Wreck only cost a few thousand bucks and is better than 90% of the multimillion dollar dreck that comes from Hollywood (it's also hilarious, every Star Trek and Babylon Five fan should see that movie).
Your comment made me think of HHGTG.
TFA says the writer doesn't understand why CC should be baked into copyright, well, I'm no lawyer and I don't speak Russian, but perhaps he's doing what I've suggested all along -- that no noncommercial copying be deemed "infringing". You're no more going to stop P2P file sharers than you're going to stop potheads from smoking, or stop people from drinking back in the 1920s.
Noncommercial "infringement" doesn't harm anyone, and studies show that "piracy" actually increases sales. Music pirates spend more money of music than non-pirates. A book publisher commissioned a study a couple of years ago to find out how much piracy hurt sales, and was flabbergasted to find that there was a second sales "spike" when the pirate version hit the web.
The RIAA is at war with their competetion, the indies. The indies rely on P2P and the web, while the RIAA has radio. If there were no such thing as radio, the RIAA would embrace file sharing. Hell, back in the 1950s there was a "payola" scandal where RIAA labels would PAY to have their songs on the radio.
As Cory Doctorow (who gives his ebooks away for free on boingboing) says, nobody ever went broke from piracy, but many artists have starved from obscurity.
It's still dark at 7:30 in the winter. Someone who didn't work until 9:00 wouldn't be getting up much earlier. It may have been a Saturday as well; I used to live next door to an elderly man who'd piss me off no end, firing up his lawnmower at 8:00 AM every Saturday, the one day I could sleep late. He was retired so he could have cut the damned lawn any day of the week.
our employers can suspend/terminate our employment for very similar reasons if our names are associated with them somehow. My former employer was well known for terminating employees for any number of out of work/no-work-related offsenses such as: getting in a bar brawl at the local titty bar (purportedly regarding one man banging the other man's wife), publishing some anti-Chinese government screed after having been sent there for 6 months by said employer, and expressing displeasure at the termination of another employee for recreational marijuana use off-campus and after hours.
That's what unions are for. Whether or not you're in a union, you'd be a fool to work without a contract that prohibited the employer from pulling those sorts of shenanigans.
There is no contract for public schools; you're required to go by law. That's a big difference. As to sports bringing in money, well in universities they do, but I don't see how sports can bring money in for a public school. It's not like you're charging a lot of money to see a high school football game.
Where I live, calling the police for something like this will get the person who called the cops jailed. "Filing a false police report" or something.
It was a fucking lame video.
Then you'd hate this Leonard Nimoy video (thanks for the link go to Captain Splendid, who posted it in a journal a few days ago). I thought it and the kid's video were both funny. But at 59 I guess I'm too damned old to grow up, and Nimoy's WAY too old to grow up.
You have a problem with reading comprehension, don't you? TFA clearly states that Canada's constitution also protects speech.
Is anyone else tired of this whole "Freedom of Speech" excuse which always seems to crop up every single time?
Only dictators and other authoritarians. If you don't like freedom of speech, move to North Korea and leave the rest of us alone.
How can you draw a picture of a principle? Did you mean "principal"? This story is, after all, about a principal seemingly without principles.
If it was homework, the school has a right to give it a low score and nothing else. And someone earlier mentioned "moral tone". The schools shouldn't be trying to teach morality, that's up to the parents. Some people think drinking is immoral, some people think there's nothing wrong with adultery. The school has no right shove its morals down your kids' throats -- that's YOUR job.
"Funny" is in the mind of the beholder and is completely subjective. Lots of folks think Monty Python is mindless garbage, I think it's hilarious. But whether or not one thinks it's funny or garbage is completely beside the point. The point is, this kid was denied his rights, and that's just plain wrong.
They like to get you in a compromising position
They like to get you there and smile in your face
They think they're so cute when they got you in that condition
Well I think it's a total disgrace
CHORUS:
I fight authority, Authority always wins
I fight authority, Authority always wins
I been doing it since I was a young kid
I come out grinnin'
I fight authority, Authority always wins
So I call up my preacher
I say, "Give me strength for Round 5."
He said , "You don't need no strength, you need to grow up son."
I said, "Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying
"And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun."
CHORUS
Oh no oh no
I fight authority Authority always wins
CHORUS
-- John Mellencamp
I don't know about Canada, but down here in the US the schools' primary purpose seems to be removal of all traces of curiosity and creativity. Ever notice that when budgets get cut, the first things to go are art and music, but never sports?
I'm 59 and it got a couple of chuckles out of me. We'll get off your lawn, sir. How are those new knees holding out?
Nope, if anything it's even worse. These days metamoderation is like free mod points without the constraints you have with mod points; you'll sometimes get your own comments to metamod, or comments you just moderated yourself.
I usually mod controversial comments "interesting" unless it's written in an inflammatory tone or just plain ignorant. Posts that really don't say anything are what I downmod. If you're starting at a 1 it's not likely to hurt your karma; I've been modbombed before with someone using all their mod points on me, and the bombs never had any effect, so one downmod surely won't. Hell, sometimes I';; ask to be downmodded if I stray off topic, since the "no bonus" checkboxes don't seem to work.
Like this one.
I'll mod controversial comments up even when I disagree. I mean, that's the whole purpose of the site, discussion and debate.
What pisses me off are fanboys, especially Sony fanboys. Say anything negative about somebody's favorite company and they mod you down in a heartbeat.
I read fast, and I'll have a lot of spare time in 3 years -- I'm retiring then. I miss summers when I was a kid and could spend all day reading. I'm looking forward to being able to do that again, it's been a LONG time.
Metamoderation is wierd; sometimes my own comments come up, sometimes comments I've just moderated come up.
I had 15 points just this Wednesday. But it does seem that there is less momoderation lately; 100 comments with all at 1 or less. Maybe all of the mods but me are downmodding? (Of the 15 I had, all but two were upmods)
It wasn't in her dictionary. She had a small, very abridged dictionary and wasn't going to listen to me even after I defined the word. What kind of teacher? Obviously, a very bad one.
Neither the stockholders nor the employees are innocent bystanders. Anyone who didn't unload Sony stock after XCP is begging to lose their investment, and the employees implemented the evil policies. The stockholders and employees ARE Sony and deserve whatever misfortune befalls them for Sony's foul deeds. Nobody who buys Sony should expect to not be victimized by Sony. I have no sympathy for Sony stockholders, Sony employees, or Sony customers at all.
Evil begets evil. Buy evil, expect evil.