A photograph is not an idea. I don't know UK law, but I know that in the US, ideas are not subject to copyright protection, the expression of one is.
As I wrote that, I discovered I had misinterpreted your point. I don't think this ruling would happen, or at least be upheld by a higher court, in the US. Clearly the "copy" is going after the same idea, but it's a completely different image, mostly because of the angle, and would be considered not a copy here in the US.
As to some of the responses calling this a derivative work. I'm pretty sure a derivative work is one that is in a different medium than the original. I'll get the answer to that question on Monday though (currently in a law school class on copyright. Have taken basic IP and an Entertainment law course that cover copyright). A real world example of what I know to be derivative works: movies based on comic books.
Oh, and to the idiot below who said that photo's are barely copyrightable? Not true, at least not in the US. These two photos would both be subject to copyright protection in the US, and not just what we call "thin copyright."
I agree that military secrets are important. The thing is, many of the things that he released, that I have heard about (I haven't done much research), shouldn't have been military secrets. Other things that I have heard that he released should definitely been kept secret.
So, my point:
1) Bad to release classified information.
2) There needs to be a change in how things are deemed classified, as some of the things that have been released the public had a right, at least in my opinion and many other people's opinion, to know, and wouldn't have endangered people in the field any more than any other negative reports about the US military would.
Why build such fast internet when no one will have anything to use it for? They are filtering so much stuff out that by the time this is available people won't need over a 1Mb/s connection. Hell maybe by that time they will only need a 256Kb/s connection for basic web surfing only. Seems pointless to me. Let people use the bandwidth you provide, otherwise why waste all that money?
You know Oregon gas prices are usually lower than both Washington and California, so your not paying extra for someone to fill your tank. It provides jobs andsupposedly keeps things safe. Its really quite nice, if its raining and windy and crap, you don't have to get out of your car (unless its a pay inside place).
I don't know, I think if groups of people went out and did this with governmental plates, hell find the cars of the judges, then something will change.
Yeah, I'll avoid disk keeper software from now on. I think it came with my thinkpad though, ugh. Religions, all of the, make me scared for humanity, this one is just silly.
If your serving someone, you are supposed to find them and give them the notice in person if they haven't responded to the mail notice. Either way, being really fucking sick in a hospital is a fairly good reason to not respond in time. I wish someone with a ton of money would sue the RIAA for something, let me work on what the legal argument would be.
I know that there is a potential for a lot of negative things to happen if we don't bailout these companies, but I still say we don't. If any money goes to them it should be in a governmental take over (which I wouldn't agree with either) in which we fire all the officials making over 100k a year.
Finally someone is going to take the RIAA's lawyers to trial. Maybe its happened before but all i hear about are cases where the defendant bows down before the RIAA and agrees to pay an ungodly sum of money for a few hundred/thousand songs.
My self, I feel quite secure, because I only download tv shows, and there isn't really a huge coalition of huge companies going after people that Torrent a tv show, watch it, share it to a 1-1 ratio, and then delete it.
Speaking of downloading torrents, does anyone know how to get passed a total block on torrent downloading? My school recently uped its torrent blocking, to where you can't download a.torrent file (but Demonoid.com allows one to download them as.txt files), but now when I start uTorrent my internet gets shut off for a few minutes. Anyone got any ideas how to get around this? I'm just a college student that wants to be able to watch tv, most of the shows I watch are network tv as well, and can't afford a TV. Also the school internet is so slow during the day that I can't stream even the low quallity shit they have out there, which is why I preferred torrents.
Any help is welcome.
The idea of companies letting governmental agencies install spyware is just another example of how we are loosing our right to privacy. If I owned an antispywre company I would refuse to adhere to an order, even if signed by a judge, to let a governmental agency's spyware go undetected. If ordered to do this I would rather tell the client that there computer is no longer secure and refuse to update there software, which would be a major hint that something is going on. People need to get together and start standing up for there rights to privicy on the internet and off, and be willing to go to jail for there beliefs. Remember if you get sent for jail for something like this, you most likely wont go to a place where violent criminals get sent.
Well, while I wouldn't vote for this, I sure wouldn't say it should be illegal. Anyone should have the right to propose a law change, but I would think that people should get to vote on something like this instead of relying on elected officials to actually do their job and consider what their supporters originally wanted.
Yes, the fine for littering is 2 million dollars, right. At least we know that they will make all that money back in a week or two from all the publicity this caused, but still, I hate the local Boston government right now for being such idiots. We don't need anymore examples of how stupid Americans are, not ever, but especially right now.
I would never have paid Boston shit. Yes, maybe he is a good leader, but he should have fought all the way to the Supreme Court if Boston sued. It was Boston's own damned fault, there is nothing wrong with a lightboard depicting a fake alien flipping you off! The city of Boston should be very ashamed of its self.
Yes, make a stand against the big bad world with your browser choices! Congratulations! I am so happy you are making a stand against evil websites that only let you use a few browsers. And by the way, the sites that I run into that won't let me use Firefox, are usually really important ones that I can't just not visit, like something for college admissions, but like I said, I rarely have any problems with Firefox, maybe its because Firefox kicks ass? Maybe, maybe (whoever gets this reference gets twenty points on the coolness scale!)
I can't believe I am even bothering you ridicule you for caring so much, maybe its because I haven't slept in quite a while, I don't know.
You missed my point entirely. I don't give a crap what browser it is, my point is that he, and now you, care way too much about a piece of free software. If I run into a site that doesn't let me use Firefox (still run into them even now) then I just fire up IE for a second to get the job done, instead of waisting time complaining to people.
First of all, yes, stop using Opera, and dude, you shouldn't have warned this guy. Anyone making such a fucking big deal about a transit site not working with his browser of choice needs to find a better way to spend his time. Perhaps a hobby that doesn't involve annoying people could help him. Also, why did this get put on slashdot? its really not worthy of any news coverage at all, let alone slashdot.
I completely agree that I would rather have smart geeks having kids than the average joe, but I would rather we try and limit our selves, voluntarily that is, to no more than two kids. We really have no reason in the United States, or many other countries for that matter, to have more than two kids.
Another part of me wishes we would just stop having kids all together because the human race is so fucked up, but whatever. Personally, I won't be having and kids in the future unless my outlook changes drastically.
Why is this news worthy? Seriously, if you haven't realized that the sponsored links are full of shit by now, just go shoot your self, it would be doing yourself and the world a favor.
Don't have kids. Sure get married, but don't have kids please? We already have too many god damned annoying people on this planet, so just lay of on the having kids thing.
I fully agree. ISP's should not have the right to filter our content at all if we don't want them to, especially in cases where there is only one ISP available like it is for me back home (at college right now).
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A photograph is not an idea. I don't know UK law, but I know that in the US, ideas are not subject to copyright protection, the expression of one is. As I wrote that, I discovered I had misinterpreted your point. I don't think this ruling would happen, or at least be upheld by a higher court, in the US. Clearly the "copy" is going after the same idea, but it's a completely different image, mostly because of the angle, and would be considered not a copy here in the US. As to some of the responses calling this a derivative work. I'm pretty sure a derivative work is one that is in a different medium than the original. I'll get the answer to that question on Monday though (currently in a law school class on copyright. Have taken basic IP and an Entertainment law course that cover copyright). A real world example of what I know to be derivative works: movies based on comic books. Oh, and to the idiot below who said that photo's are barely copyrightable? Not true, at least not in the US. These two photos would both be subject to copyright protection in the US, and not just what we call "thin copyright."
I agree that military secrets are important. The thing is, many of the things that he released, that I have heard about (I haven't done much research), shouldn't have been military secrets. Other things that I have heard that he released should definitely been kept secret. So, my point: 1) Bad to release classified information. 2) There needs to be a change in how things are deemed classified, as some of the things that have been released the public had a right, at least in my opinion and many other people's opinion, to know, and wouldn't have endangered people in the field any more than any other negative reports about the US military would.
Why build such fast internet when no one will have anything to use it for? They are filtering so much stuff out that by the time this is available people won't need over a 1Mb/s connection. Hell maybe by that time they will only need a 256Kb/s connection for basic web surfing only. Seems pointless to me. Let people use the bandwidth you provide, otherwise why waste all that money?
on my phone later would be, lets see 3 keys for the l8r then the usual send key, etc.
You know Oregon gas prices are usually lower than both Washington and California, so your not paying extra for someone to fill your tank. It provides jobs andsupposedly keeps things safe. Its really quite nice, if its raining and windy and crap, you don't have to get out of your car (unless its a pay inside place).
I don't know, I think if groups of people went out and did this with governmental plates, hell find the cars of the judges, then something will change.
Yes, I do hope that Arkansas gets hacked to all hell. Conservative bastards . . .
Yeah, I'll avoid disk keeper software from now on. I think it came with my thinkpad though, ugh. Religions, all of the, make me scared for humanity, this one is just silly.
If your serving someone, you are supposed to find them and give them the notice in person if they haven't responded to the mail notice. Either way, being really fucking sick in a hospital is a fairly good reason to not respond in time. I wish someone with a ton of money would sue the RIAA for something, let me work on what the legal argument would be.
I know that there is a potential for a lot of negative things to happen if we don't bailout these companies, but I still say we don't. If any money goes to them it should be in a governmental take over (which I wouldn't agree with either) in which we fire all the officials making over 100k a year.
Finally someone is going to take the RIAA's lawyers to trial. Maybe its happened before but all i hear about are cases where the defendant bows down before the RIAA and agrees to pay an ungodly sum of money for a few hundred/thousand songs. My self, I feel quite secure, because I only download tv shows, and there isn't really a huge coalition of huge companies going after people that Torrent a tv show, watch it, share it to a 1-1 ratio, and then delete it. Speaking of downloading torrents, does anyone know how to get passed a total block on torrent downloading? My school recently uped its torrent blocking, to where you can't download a .torrent file (but Demonoid.com allows one to download them as .txt files), but now when I start uTorrent my internet gets shut off for a few minutes. Anyone got any ideas how to get around this? I'm just a college student that wants to be able to watch tv, most of the shows I watch are network tv as well, and can't afford a TV. Also the school internet is so slow during the day that I can't stream even the low quallity shit they have out there, which is why I preferred torrents.
Any help is welcome.
The idea of companies letting governmental agencies install spyware is just another example of how we are loosing our right to privacy. If I owned an antispywre company I would refuse to adhere to an order, even if signed by a judge, to let a governmental agency's spyware go undetected. If ordered to do this I would rather tell the client that there computer is no longer secure and refuse to update there software, which would be a major hint that something is going on. People need to get together and start standing up for there rights to privicy on the internet and off, and be willing to go to jail for there beliefs. Remember if you get sent for jail for something like this, you most likely wont go to a place where violent criminals get sent.
Well, while I wouldn't vote for this, I sure wouldn't say it should be illegal. Anyone should have the right to propose a law change, but I would think that people should get to vote on something like this instead of relying on elected officials to actually do their job and consider what their supporters originally wanted.
This is probably the biggest misuse of anti child porn laws yet, but If some republicans get their way it won't be for very long.
Yes, the fine for littering is 2 million dollars, right. At least we know that they will make all that money back in a week or two from all the publicity this caused, but still, I hate the local Boston government right now for being such idiots. We don't need anymore examples of how stupid Americans are, not ever, but especially right now.
I would never have paid Boston shit. Yes, maybe he is a good leader, but he should have fought all the way to the Supreme Court if Boston sued. It was Boston's own damned fault, there is nothing wrong with a lightboard depicting a fake alien flipping you off! The city of Boston should be very ashamed of its self.
Yes, make a stand against the big bad world with your browser choices! Congratulations! I am so happy you are making a stand against evil websites that only let you use a few browsers. And by the way, the sites that I run into that won't let me use Firefox, are usually really important ones that I can't just not visit, like something for college admissions, but like I said, I rarely have any problems with Firefox, maybe its because Firefox kicks ass? Maybe, maybe (whoever gets this reference gets twenty points on the coolness scale!) I can't believe I am even bothering you ridicule you for caring so much, maybe its because I haven't slept in quite a while, I don't know.
You missed my point entirely. I don't give a crap what browser it is, my point is that he, and now you, care way too much about a piece of free software. If I run into a site that doesn't let me use Firefox (still run into them even now) then I just fire up IE for a second to get the job done, instead of waisting time complaining to people.
First of all, yes, stop using Opera, and dude, you shouldn't have warned this guy. Anyone making such a fucking big deal about a transit site not working with his browser of choice needs to find a better way to spend his time. Perhaps a hobby that doesn't involve annoying people could help him. Also, why did this get put on slashdot? its really not worthy of any news coverage at all, let alone slashdot.
I completely agree that I would rather have smart geeks having kids than the average joe, but I would rather we try and limit our selves, voluntarily that is, to no more than two kids. We really have no reason in the United States, or many other countries for that matter, to have more than two kids. Another part of me wishes we would just stop having kids all together because the human race is so fucked up, but whatever. Personally, I won't be having and kids in the future unless my outlook changes drastically.
Why is this news worthy? Seriously, if you haven't realized that the sponsored links are full of shit by now, just go shoot your self, it would be doing yourself and the world a favor.
Don't have kids. Sure get married, but don't have kids please? We already have too many god damned annoying people on this planet, so just lay of on the having kids thing.
I fully agree. ISP's should not have the right to filter our content at all if we don't want them to, especially in cases where there is only one ISP available like it is for me back home (at college right now).
I'd Vote For Bill, and I'd definitely vote for an atheist.
Who Cares what the Thai IT Minister Says? Its not Japan, China, or South Korea, so get over it.