Seriously ... is ANYONE going to trust any company named "Righthaven"?
Yes, I know. New owners but the name itself is certainly going to raise now only "eyebrows" but a certain level of distrust - at least until they've proven themselves.
I'll reserve my thoughts until they've got a little more time under their belt, I think.
As I was reading the comments I was sort of thinking the same thing. I was beginning to wonder if she'd been on the flight alone.
If this actually goes anywhere, there might be others come out of the woodwork, but...if she has historical medical data that supports her case and no one else does, there may be no other cases come forward.
Instead of a "mail" box you bought and paid for and installed (which you don't own?) - what about mail slots in your door? That's what our old house had...no mail box, just a slot labeled "mail"...do they own that too?
We did buy a "mail box" (which we paid for, have the receipt for too...it is ours, NOT the postal service's) and installed it all by our little ole selves. We taped a plastic sign to it that says "newspapers".
Finally had to tape a second sign to it: "This is not a mailbox...please use the slot labeled "MAIL".
I also agree with that. It's a figure that's actually not going to be accurate. Take into account the thousands of photographers who processed their own film in their own darkrooms (pre-digital days) and never published them for all the world to see.
Or in the early digital days even, where not everyone in the world bothered to print or publish on the net.
A photo is a photo, whether snapped by a monkey, a kid, an amateur/hobbyist or a professional photographer.
Uh, dump a bucket of water on a pile of dry snow. Yay...snow for a snowman.
Okay, yes he obviously had to go to some work and testing to set up something like the method used in the patent, but this is not something most people would even consider doing.
On the other hand, I live in a place where there is more than enough snow during the winter to build a suitable snowman...thousands of them, without worrying about dry snow. How would he know which method you used?
So even though the patent may actually have some validity, it does seem a little on the silly side. How is the patent even enforceable in terms of use? People build snowmen, mostly kids. Is this guy going to deconstruct every snowman that "might" have used his patent?
He'd be better of patenting the "kit" along with the method. Then he can sell the "kits" with the instructions and be all set.
Uh, could somebody explain the instructions? Geeze if a kid had to follow those to build a snowman...where's the fun?
Let's see...make a snowball, roll in snow. Pile two or three on top of each other. Voila. Snowman.
What the hell does that guy's instructions say?
While it may be "valid" how many people would use that method to build a snowman? Certainly no kid I know would be interested, and neither would most adults. Half the fun is in the snowballs.
There's plenty of ways to build a snowman...using electricity isn't high on my list of "must dos".
One of our local groups built a snowman using a lot of recycled plastic lunchables containers...I'm pretty sure they didn't patent it. Anybody want to take a stab?
Actually, it isn't anymore just sites with lots of money that have Terms that most people don't necessarily agree with. Lots of smaller sites also have these - is this guy going to go about suing all of them just cause he wants the terms "his way"? It ain't Harvey's.
My own have terms - the terms I choose to offer, not what someone else wants.
As for "monied sites" - while you may think the terms are one-sided, nobody is twisting your arm to agree with them. If you don't like them, find another site who doesn't have terms.
Since when is anyone required to set up their terms to suit another user?
I get pretty tired of stuff like that. When you own a business, you get to set the rules (within the law) and if others don't like it...well tough. Go somewhere else.
Nagging on terms of agreement or use is not much different than assuming you can tell someone how to run their business .
There are better ways of suggesting changes than making yourself look like...well this particular idiot.
Re: Do you have to sell a book to be breaking this law?
Well is this or isn't it restricted to "first sale"? Because for the most part, second hand bookstores would not generally be considered to be creating the first sale would they?
Most of the second hand stores I'm familiar with buy the books from the first (sometimes even the second) owner of the book.
Is "first sale" a misnomer, or is the law applied only to the first person to "sell" the book after the purchase?
[but if he is just trying to point out an issue with contracts on the internet I have to say I think he has a point]
That would be a very big "if".
If that were the case he should be suing every website that has a "Terms of Use" or "Terms of Service clause", not just the companies who (apparently) have lots of money.
Beyond that, wasting the time of the US court system isn't going to win him any blue ribbons, and if he keeps going, might get him a spot in a very nice padded room somewhere.
Does someone get to decide if the cops have any art sense?
I very often don't take photos of "touristy" things...I take pictures of old buildings, dirt, peeling paint and a variety of other weird and odd things.
Not everything has to have aesthetic value to be of use or have a value to the person taking it.
Wow. Detained...over an urban photo. Sometimes stuff just makes you crazy...this is one of them.
If this doesn't get turned down by the end of the trial, this would be a nightmare.
You simply can't copyright an idea or expression in a photograph (just the "actual" photograph). None of these images are exactly alike, and as far as I can see (as a photographer), have only been loosely based on the photographer's images. Such images can easily have been conceived in the minds of other photographer's without ever having seen this particular batch (I've experienced this many times). In my eyes, the images themselves are different enough from each other that I probably wouldn't have connected them.
I don't get it. This isn't, as far as I can see, a copyright infringement, not in any way.
Is the boiling point of water the same as the boiling point of a human being (er, I suppose the blood/water in a human)?
Actually, I think it is, or at least within a few degrees (100 C or 212F) so perhaps they're a little off.
On the other hand, at what temperature would you begin to boil? Me...probably long before that. I get crabby when it's 100F...a few more degrees and I'd be boiling mad.
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Yes, I know. New owners but the name itself is certainly going to raise now only "eyebrows" but a certain level of distrust - at least until they've proven themselves.
I'll reserve my thoughts until they've got a little more time under their belt, I think.
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I believe it will take a lot more than that, but if even a quarter of the country sent that one email, it might be enough.
I sent mine. Hopefully, some of you will too.
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Re:
Where's the beef? (in other words...where's the story?)
On the post: Woman Sues Airline Over Flight Turbulence
Re:
If this actually goes anywhere, there might be others come out of the woodwork, but...if she has historical medical data that supports her case and no one else does, there may be no other cases come forward.
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Instead of a "mail" box you bought and paid for and installed (which you don't own?) - what about mail slots in your door? That's what our old house had...no mail box, just a slot labeled "mail"...do they own that too?
We did buy a "mail box" (which we paid for, have the receipt for too...it is ours, NOT the postal service's) and installed it all by our little ole selves. We taped a plastic sign to it that says "newspapers".
Finally had to tape a second sign to it: "This is not a mailbox...please use the slot labeled "MAIL".
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Re: Suing wrong people
Given the situation...them holding that patent too wouldn't surprise me.
Some things in the world apparently get a little more ridiculous every day.
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Re: What I want to know is...
Or in the early digital days even, where not everyone in the world bothered to print or publish on the net.
A photo is a photo, whether snapped by a monkey, a kid, an amateur/hobbyist or a professional photographer.
On the post: New Way To Build A Snowman: Patented!
Re: Re:
Uh, dump a bucket of water on a pile of dry snow. Yay...snow for a snowman.
Okay, yes he obviously had to go to some work and testing to set up something like the method used in the patent, but this is not something most people would even consider doing.
On the other hand, I live in a place where there is more than enough snow during the winter to build a suitable snowman...thousands of them, without worrying about dry snow. How would he know which method you used?
So even though the patent may actually have some validity, it does seem a little on the silly side. How is the patent even enforceable in terms of use? People build snowmen, mostly kids. Is this guy going to deconstruct every snowman that "might" have used his patent?
He'd be better of patenting the "kit" along with the method. Then he can sell the "kits" with the instructions and be all set.
On the post: New Way To Build A Snowman: Patented!
Let's see...make a snowball, roll in snow. Pile two or three on top of each other. Voila. Snowman.
What the hell does that guy's instructions say?
While it may be "valid" how many people would use that method to build a snowman? Certainly no kid I know would be interested, and neither would most adults. Half the fun is in the snowballs.
There's plenty of ways to build a snowman...using electricity isn't high on my list of "must dos".
One of our local groups built a snowman using a lot of recycled plastic lunchables containers...I'm pretty sure they didn't patent it. Anybody want to take a stab?
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,Nuff said.
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Re:
There are many other video sites. Try looking.
They might be the most popular "game in town", but they aren't the only one.
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Re: Re: as much as he is crazy
My own have terms - the terms I choose to offer, not what someone else wants.
As for "monied sites" - while you may think the terms are one-sided, nobody is twisting your arm to agree with them. If you don't like them, find another site who doesn't have terms.
Since when is anyone required to set up their terms to suit another user?
I get pretty tired of stuff like that. When you own a business, you get to set the rules (within the law) and if others don't like it...well tough. Go somewhere else.
Nagging on terms of agreement or use is not much different than assuming you can tell someone how to run their business .
There are better ways of suggesting changes than making yourself look like...well this particular idiot.
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Re: Do you have to sell a book to be breaking this law?
Most of the second hand stores I'm familiar with buy the books from the first (sometimes even the second) owner of the book.
Is "first sale" a misnomer, or is the law applied only to the first person to "sell" the book after the purchase?
Anyone know?
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Re: as much as he is crazy
That would be a very big "if".
If that were the case he should be suing every website that has a "Terms of Use" or "Terms of Service clause", not just the companies who (apparently) have lots of money.
Beyond that, wasting the time of the US court system isn't going to win him any blue ribbons, and if he keeps going, might get him a spot in a very nice padded room somewhere.
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Re: Re: Re:
On the post: Police Say They Can Detain Photographers If Their Photographs Have 'No Apparent Esthetic Value'
Does someone get to decide if the cops have any art sense?
I very often don't take photos of "touristy" things...I take pictures of old buildings, dirt, peeling paint and a variety of other weird and odd things.
Not everything has to have aesthetic value to be of use or have a value to the person taking it.
Wow. Detained...over an urban photo. Sometimes stuff just makes you crazy...this is one of them.
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You simply can't copyright an idea or expression in a photograph (just the "actual" photograph). None of these images are exactly alike, and as far as I can see (as a photographer), have only been loosely based on the photographer's images. Such images can easily have been conceived in the minds of other photographer's without ever having seen this particular batch (I've experienced this many times). In my eyes, the images themselves are different enough from each other that I probably wouldn't have connected them.
I don't get it. This isn't, as far as I can see, a copyright infringement, not in any way.
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Actually, I think it is, or at least within a few degrees (100 C or 212F) so perhaps they're a little off.
On the other hand, at what temperature would you begin to boil? Me...probably long before that. I get crabby when it's 100F...a few more degrees and I'd be boiling mad.
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