What if someone was to patent 'a system for the replication of organic entities', then turn around and sue Monsanto for every time one of their employees doing what comes naturally having a result?
I suppose Lord Justice Salmon meant the word in a different, legal sense, as in "not sharing a direct interest with either party of the case".
Most people would interpret it that way, yes.
EFF's amicus brief should be given due consideration
As Lord Justice Salmon noted in Allen v Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Ltd [1968], "I had always understood that the role of an amicus curiae was to help the court by expounding the law impartially, or if one of the parties were unrepresented, by advancing the legal arguments on his behalf." (Emphasis mine.)
Most of the recommendations from the Hargreaves Review received Royal Assent, and as a result, it will legal in the UK from October to make an accessible copy of any book for a disabled person that needs it. The 'dangerous' thing about this is how it will force companies to follow the Equality Act 2010 in order to avoid 'losing sales to piracy'.
Actually, theft is taking something without the owner's knowledgeable consent, thus denying them use of it, whereas infringement involves making an illegal copy, leaving the original in place for the owner to do what they want with it.
If you claim that copyright extends for 70 years, (Can't remember the actual number) how will it work when people listen to it in a system 71 light years away?
It doesn't work quite like that because a light year isn't a measure of time, but distance; specifically, it's the distance that light travels in a year. So the (rarely applied in the US) term of life + 70 could be reached in just a few light hours (granted, I don't know exactly how far light travels in any given amount of time).
"Method and system for coherently caching I/O devices across a network."
Doesn't the above describe the Internet? I believe it was invented in the 1970s.
Er, Wally, that was the whole point of AC's use of the line highlighting the situation in Jurassic Park.
"The bad thing you imagine can't possibly happen."
"What if it does?"
"We've made sure it never will."
"Oh, fuck. Someone made a big boo boo, and now the bad thing has happened."
If you cannot understand that this is impossible and only a result of fraudulent accounting...
Er, creative accounting is fraud, albeit legal. Any further questions?
Re: Superior sense: if you like HHGTG, DON'T WATCH THE MOVIE!
OMG, OOTB commented on an article not written by Mike! That's akin to Jesus walking on water, turning water to wine, and feeding the five thousand all at once!
The original Torrentfreak article mentions that Doctorow had published Homeland through Tor, wrapped in DRM.
Really? Because I just copied my copy from one folder on my computer to another, an act rendered impossible by the presence of Digital Restrictions Malware.
However, the UK Supreme Court has asked the European Court of Justice to offer its own, definitive, ruling so as to settle the law for the whole of Europe.
Oh, geez. Even I can comprehend the InfoSoc Directive better than that, and I'm (technically) retarded!
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An answer?
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Re: Re: New patent, anyone?
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New patent, anyone?
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Re: "Impartially"?
Most people would interpret it that way, yes.
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EFF's amicus brief should be given due consideration
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The precedent has already been set
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Re: Re: Hey, Maximalists!
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Hey, Maximalists!
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Re:
It doesn't work quite like that because a light year isn't a measure of time, but distance; specifically, it's the distance that light travels in a year. So the (rarely applied in the US) term of life + 70 could be reached in just a few light hours (granted, I don't know exactly how far light travels in any given amount of time).
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Isn't there prior art to challenge that patent?
Doesn't the above describe the Internet? I believe it was invented in the 1970s.
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Re: Re: Re:
What, from the train station to Henry Ford's factory? Sure they were.
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Re: Re: What could possibly go wrong?
"The bad thing you imagine can't possibly happen."
"What if it does?"
"We've made sure it never will."
"Oh, fuck. Someone made a big boo boo, and now the bad thing has happened."
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Re: Re:
Er, creative accounting is fraud, albeit legal. Any further questions?
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Re: Superior sense: if you like HHGTG, DON'T WATCH THE MOVIE!
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Inaccurate graphic
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Re: Re: There's too many links to check!
Mot true, I've personally seen ebooks as 19 MB PDFs. What should be checked is tags, not file size.
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Re:
Really? Because I just copied my copy from one folder on my computer to another, an act rendered impossible by the presence of Digital Restrictions Malware.
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To paraphrase Azealia Banks:
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Regarding Kind of Bloop...
I'm neither a maximalist or a shill, but I have to agree with the above article, which goes very in-depth for something that covers just one page.
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Wasn't this covered in 2003?
Oh, geez. Even I can comprehend the InfoSoc Directive better than that, and I'm (technically) retarded!
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