The guy who wrote Quantum Copyright neglected to mention that F. Scott Fitzgerald's works are PD in Europe as well. Since a European Directive upped the term to life plus 70, the calculation is as follows: year of death 1940 + 70 up to end of year = 01/01/2011.
Hmmm. Kindle. Proprietary
format with the extension .mobi. Not to worry, I'll just upload the book to www.online-convert.com and change it to .epub so I can read it in Cool Reader. At least I would if fucking Amazon didn't require you to have a credit or debit card to do anything on their website! *facepalm*
All Mothers Best Child had to do was find out who was responsible for the creation of everything they used in their vid, credit accordingly, then they could have claimed 'Fair Dealing for the purposes of criticism and review', making the vid legally untouchable. Further details can be found at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/30
All Mothers Best Child had to do was find out who was responsible for the creation of everything they used in their vid, credit accordingly, then they could have claimed 'Fair Dealing for the purposes of criticism and review', making the vid legally untouchable. Further details can be found at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/30
No, you didn't have to fork over anything. All you had to do was tell the licensing agency to pay you a visit to check your equipment, then once they'd done that, they'd have left you alone. Worked for me after I bought a TV to use exclusively with a games console.
"The strawman you have erected has not been recognised. Please check and try again."
"Where else is public speech strictly controlled? Oh, I Know. In countries with one party totalitarian regimes."
Not just there. In England, I can get fined �1000 pounds just for telling a copper to fuck off. That doesn't stop me calling them an Andrex while telling them they should stop being a urine catheter and talking from where they should be passing waste, of course. I guess UK law enforcement is spectacularly thick, because members of another forum got what I said all right.
Old lady 'offers' free cheese to mice, but mice prefer chocolate, so old blames her 'offer' not being taken up on rats who take her cheese and trade it in for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
Whether Lawrence Lessig's vid has been silenced or not, I will never know because of four very important words the good professor failed to take into account when uploading it: Not Available on Mobile.
Incidentally, if a few of the commenters here seem a bit.reactionary, that's because the usual "pro-copyright" folks here do nothing but call everyone "pirates," call Masnick a "scumbag," and believe Techdirt is a subsidiary of Google.
I'm pro-copyright when it works, but unfortunately, the content industries seem to be determined to break it beyond repair. However, take comfort in the fact that my stories' copyright notices contain a general licence for people to copy and share them (except file sharing). Now that's what I call working copyright!
Actually, Anton Vickerman was found guilty of a civil offence he didn't commit, not a crime, so if the person you were addressing has an IQ of seven, I'd hate to think what yours is!
average_joe said: " It's "brought to you by copyright" because the copyright DISNEY RECEIVED made it possible."
Shakespeare and Beethoven would beg to differ.
What Razer obviously doesn't seem to realise is that it's possible to buy a mouse from Logitech, for example, configure and save the settings, then upload those settings to Google Drive or whatever.
What Razer obviously doesn't seem to realise is that it's possible to buy a mouse from Logitech, for example, configure and save the settings, then upload those settings to Google Drive or whatever.
Your favourite author is wrong in this case. Here's an example of why: Last year, I wrote a Harry Potter fanfic where he got knocked up with eggs by an arachnotaur, then changed sufficient details that I could post it on epubbud.com as an original story. Just two days ago, I came across a story that I had never read before where a male character gets knocked up with eggs by an arachnotaur. Now, if the author of the earlier story and/or E.L. James was to sue me for copyright infringement, that would be exactly like what Harlan Ellison is doing now. Get it? Got it? Good!
I know someone who makes music videos and posts them on YouTube as well as selling the music through iTunes and distributing it for free on a website that *really* doesn't like smart phones. So when someone contacts him saying they wanted to download a free copy of one of his songs but can't access the content, he directs them to YouTube audio rippers and tells them they can get it that way. That's an explicit licence to use those tools, so such use is completely non-infringing.
I once got in touch with FACT to complain about a case of multiple copyright theft, but they still haven't done anything about the egregious rights grab enshrined in the ToS of itv.com.
On the post: Why Using Creative Commons Licensed Materials Is Not As Easy As It Looks
Can't prove licence? Really?
Hello, screenshots as JPEG email attachments!
*puts head through brick wall*
On the post: 'Quantum Copyright:' At What Point Does A Legal Copy Become Infringement?
Don't we exist?
On the post: On This Internet Freedom Day, Download A Free Book: On Internet Freedom
It's simple even on an Android
format with the extension .mobi. Not to worry, I'll just upload the book to www.online-convert.com and change it to .epub so I can read it in Cool Reader. At least I would if fucking Amazon didn't require you to have a credit or debit card to do anything on their website! *facepalm*
On the post: UK Trying To Censor Parody Video About The 2012 Olympics
This video could have easily been legal
On the post: UK Trying To Censor Parody Video About The 2012 Olympics
This video could have easily been legal
On the post: UK Hairdresser Fined For Playing Music Even Though He Tried To Be Legal
Re: UK TV Licences
"The strawman you have erected has not been recognised. Please check and try again."
On the post: University Utilizing Faulty Irony Detector Censors Flyer Protesting Its Censorship Policy
Re:
Not just there. In England, I can get fined �1000 pounds just for telling a copper to fuck off. That doesn't stop me calling them an Andrex while telling them they should stop being a urine catheter and talking from where they should be passing waste, of course. I guess UK law enforcement is spectacularly thick, because members of another forum got what I said all right.
On the post: To Boost Its New Crappy DRM, Hollywood Tries Giving Away Free Movies
Re: In other news
On the post: Bogus Copyright Claim Silences Yet Another Larry Lessig YouTube Presentation
Self Censorship up in here
On the post: NYTimes OpEd Explains Why Infringement Isn't Theft
Re: Re:
I'm pro-copyright when it works, but unfortunately, the content industries seem to be determined to break it beyond repair. However, take comfort in the fact that my stories' copyright notices contain a general licence for people to copy and share them (except file sharing). Now that's what I call working copyright!
On the post: SurfTheChannel Founder Gets Extra Jail Time For Revealing Documents That Raised Questions About His Conviction
Re: Re: Pure, farcical injustice
On the post: SurfTheChannel Founder Gets Extra Jail Time For Revealing Documents That Raised Questions About His Conviction
Re: Re: Re: Re: Anyone Listening?
On the post: Disney Claims House Of Mouse Built With Copyright, Ignores Public Domain Foundation
Re:
Shakespeare and Beethoven would beg to differ.
On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong
An Alternative Method
On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong
An Alternative Method
On the post: Harlan Ellison Sues Again; Because No One Could Have Possibly Came Up With The Same SciFi Ideas As He Did
To the Ellison Apologists
On the post: Just Because A Banana Can Be Used To Rob A Bank, It Doesn't Mean We Ban Bananas
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Not any more. The MAFIAA shut down the second-hand finger market over spurious 'copyright concerns'.
On the post: Just Because A Banana Can Be Used To Rob A Bank, It Doesn't Mean We Ban Bananas
On the post: Guilty Until Proven Licensed: FACT Shuts Down Torrent Tracker Despite Cooperation
FACT doesn't care about copyright
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@ AdamBv1
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