That only means that you are giving Twitpic a license to use your photo for any business of Twitpic. It does not give Twitpic the right to sell and/or license your work to other organizations/persons for their use. Those organizations/persons would still need to contact you for a license.
If such a sales tax is in violation of our first amendment right to free speech, why are we allowed to apply sales tax to non-fiction works in any media category? This is an honest question.
I guess in this category it is a matter of treating one newspaper different from another, but why treat newspapers different than magazines, periodicals or even books and documentaries? After all a sales tax on those is a violation of the authors/producers' rights to free speech.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 26 May 2011 @ 11:02am
I already wrote Coburn about this
I wrote Senator Coburn about this earlier in the week. It is disappointing to see him vote for this. I just wrote him again. After this and his vote for the PATRIOT Act the other day, he will not be getting my vote ever again.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 24 May 2011 @ 11:04am
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Some people have built a brand around a specific URL. It takes time and resources to rebuild that brand under a different name.
If you want a real life example of this, look at Facebook.
Facebook has a tendency to do just as the Justice Department is doing, but to pages. Facebook will ban a page with no warning, no explanation and no clear way to challenge the ban. The people who run these pages try and try to find out just why their page was banned and never receive a response from Facebook.
They are then forced to do what you suggest, try to rebuild under a different page. Unfortunately, that doesn't work.
I was an admin on one such page. We were a fan page for a popular Facebook game. We had over 90,000 fans and it was growing every day. Then our page was killed. After a few days of fighting Facebook for even a scrap of information, we started a new page. It took 6 months to get that initial 90k fan base. After 9 months on the new page we weren't at even half that. When people saw that the old page was gone, they never tried looking for the new one.
If it weren't for those dedicated few fans, our page probably would have died completely.
This makes two letters I have written to my senators in as many days. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma voted for this measure. Senator James Inhofe did not vote.
I hope that they get the idea that the privacy and due process rights granted by the Constitution are not something that can be tossed to the wind. I hope they realize that the people of this nation will not allow this to continue indefinitely.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 23 May 2011 @ 11:44am
I had a PS3 once
My wife got it for me for Christmas. She found one of the rare backward compatible models and couldn't resist getting it. I bought 3 games for it and borrowed 2 others from my brother. 1 of the games I borrowed and 1 of the games I bought would not play at all on this PS3. They both played fine on my Brother's PS3. So I exchanged it for the same model. Same problems as before. Sony was no help on the one they published and Sega was no help on the other. So I decided to chug along and play the 3 games that actually worked.
That was until the disk drive gave out. Since I was still within the return policy (90 days) of the store my wife bought it from, I decided to return it rather than pay out $150 to have Sony screw me over even more. I had been debating on whether to buy a new one, most likely one that was not backward compatible (much to my displeasure) but this problem with their PSN being hacked combined with many other follies (removing otherOS, and Leap year bugs) I have decided to not bother. I will be selling off the 3 games I bought (So long Valkaria Chronicles. I wish I could have beat you.)
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 19 May 2011 @ 10:34am
My losses to Chinese Piracy
Let's see if I can calculate what my losses are to Chinese Piracy.
China has roughly 1.3 billion people. Since everyone in China is a pirate, that means that there are 1.3 billion copies of my software in China. Since 1 pirated copy is equal to 1 lost sale, I have lost 1.3 billion sales. Since I don't actually market to China, I need to base my losses on the closest estimation of what my product would cost there. So I will use my US cost of $1000. So my total losses to Chinese piracy is $1.3 trillion. Holy Crap!!! I need more IP protection!
Yes I know. If the TSA doesn't get this funding they won't be able to look at children naked or have an excuse to feel them up. The TSA needs to get their pedo fix.
If you want to give more power to younger people when it comes to voting, the best thing to do is to get more young people out to vote.
Sad to say is that older people are more likely to vote because they came from an era that was actually taught to love the ideal of democracy and to be involved in the political process. These people grew through such times as World Wars, Prohibition, Suffrage, Civil Rights etc. They were exposed almost daily to the political process.
I recently watched the movie "The Social Network" In this movie, the Winklevoss twins were portrayed as petty cry babies who held a vendetta against Zuckerberg for beating them at their own game. At the time, I was thinking that no person could be that petty in real life.
Thanks for living up to your caricatures, Winklevii.
If the judge allows this case to continue, I will have lost all hope for our legal system. Even if these patents are valid and the method used is a violation of them, these developers should not be held liable to violating them. The only party this patent troll has standing to sue is Apple because they are the ones who developed the "infringing" technology. These people simply used it.
Exactly. Criminals are smart enough to use means that are not easily tracked to help them plan and commit crimes.
If the DOJ wants to make law enforcement easier, they need to ban burn phones and make it legally required that everyone in the world sign 2 year contracts with cell carriers and get smart phones equipped with GPS tracking.
The question is not "Why didn't she credit or ask permission of the original origami artist?" The question is "Does she have to ask permission or credit the original origami artist?"
I would agree with mike and say that she does not need to credit or ask permission as her work is not meant to compete with the original origami artist. She is selling a painting based on the creases, not instructions on creating the origami pieces.
Based on my experience on video game industry websites like Gamasutra.com, I would say it is a public conscience thing. Of course this does not mean that the public is more valuable than a judge's view point. I would agree with you on that.
As for public opinion, I am again basing this on my experience with game industry website discussions.
If you want to get the most reader comments in your article on Gamasutra, there are two topics you can write about. Used game sales and piracy. Anything that looks like a pro argument for those two topics will start a massive flame campaign on either side.
The only reason I can think of that would explain this huge discrepancy between the rulings is that the entertainment industry has successfully engrained in the public conscience that torrents are solely used for piracy.
There is no other explanation. It is a sad thought and I wish it were not true.
This is the same reason why modding video game consoles and jailbreaking smart phones is looked down upon. Enough powerful people have screamed loudly and long enough that the collective conscience of the people has equated these activities with piracy. It doesn't matter that the origination of console modding came from region coding and people's attempts to bypass it to play imported games. It doesn't matter that jailbreaking smartphones originated with provider lockout and people's attempts to bypass it.
We are in a society that has been almost completely brainwashed to believe anything the movie and music industry wants us to believe. Such a sad sad world.
I own a copy of Flash MX2004 and a couple of years back I upgraded to CS3. When I installed CS3, It could not open any of my MX2004 fla files. It ticked me off. I hate Adobe.
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I guess in this category it is a matter of treating one newspaper different from another, but why treat newspapers different than magazines, periodicals or even books and documentaries? After all a sales tax on those is a violation of the authors/producers' rights to free speech.
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I already wrote Coburn about this
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http://www.google.com/search?q=school+of+comedy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls= org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Once you get passed the British TV show, there are several schools listed. Odd indeed.
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If you want a real life example of this, look at Facebook.
Facebook has a tendency to do just as the Justice Department is doing, but to pages. Facebook will ban a page with no warning, no explanation and no clear way to challenge the ban. The people who run these pages try and try to find out just why their page was banned and never receive a response from Facebook.
They are then forced to do what you suggest, try to rebuild under a different page. Unfortunately, that doesn't work.
I was an admin on one such page. We were a fan page for a popular Facebook game. We had over 90,000 fans and it was growing every day. Then our page was killed. After a few days of fighting Facebook for even a scrap of information, we started a new page. It took 6 months to get that initial 90k fan base. After 9 months on the new page we weren't at even half that. When people saw that the old page was gone, they never tried looking for the new one.
If it weren't for those dedicated few fans, our page probably would have died completely.
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This makes two
I hope that they get the idea that the privacy and due process rights granted by the Constitution are not something that can be tossed to the wind. I hope they realize that the people of this nation will not allow this to continue indefinitely.
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I had a PS3 once
That was until the disk drive gave out. Since I was still within the return policy (90 days) of the store my wife bought it from, I decided to return it rather than pay out $150 to have Sony screw me over even more. I had been debating on whether to buy a new one, most likely one that was not backward compatible (much to my displeasure) but this problem with their PSN being hacked combined with many other follies (removing otherOS, and Leap year bugs) I have decided to not bother. I will be selling off the 3 games I bought (So long Valkaria Chronicles. I wish I could have beat you.)
I will never buy another Sony product again.
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My losses to Chinese Piracy
China has roughly 1.3 billion people. Since everyone in China is a pirate, that means that there are 1.3 billion copies of my software in China. Since 1 pirated copy is equal to 1 lost sale, I have lost 1.3 billion sales. Since I don't actually market to China, I need to base my losses on the closest estimation of what my product would cost there. So I will use my US cost of $1000. So my total losses to Chinese piracy is $1.3 trillion. Holy Crap!!! I need more IP protection!
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Re: What a liar
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Here's a novel idea
Sad to say is that older people are more likely to vote because they came from an era that was actually taught to love the ideal of democracy and to be involved in the political process. These people grew through such times as World Wars, Prohibition, Suffrage, Civil Rights etc. They were exposed almost daily to the political process.
Not so much today.
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Thanks for living up to your caricatures, Winklevii.
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If the DOJ wants to make law enforcement easier, they need to ban burn phones and make it legally required that everyone in the world sign 2 year contracts with cell carriers and get smart phones equipped with GPS tracking.
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I would agree with mike and say that she does not need to credit or ask permission as her work is not meant to compete with the original origami artist. She is selling a painting based on the creases, not instructions on creating the origami pieces.
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Based on my experience on video game industry websites like Gamasutra.com, I would say it is a public conscience thing. Of course this does not mean that the public is more valuable than a judge's view point. I would agree with you on that.
As for public opinion, I am again basing this on my experience with game industry website discussions.
If you want to get the most reader comments in your article on Gamasutra, there are two topics you can write about. Used game sales and piracy. Anything that looks like a pro argument for those two topics will start a massive flame campaign on either side.
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There is no other explanation. It is a sad thought and I wish it were not true.
This is the same reason why modding video game consoles and jailbreaking smart phones is looked down upon. Enough powerful people have screamed loudly and long enough that the collective conscience of the people has equated these activities with piracy. It doesn't matter that the origination of console modding came from region coding and people's attempts to bypass it to play imported games. It doesn't matter that jailbreaking smartphones originated with provider lockout and people's attempts to bypass it.
We are in a society that has been almost completely brainwashed to believe anything the movie and music industry wants us to believe. Such a sad sad world.
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Bugs me too
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