"The 45 rpm discs typically emulated the playing time of the former 78 rpm discs,"
So the 78 set the initial standard and the 45 matched it - remember there was a time in the early 1950s when both formats coexisted and many songs (eg much of Elvis's early work) were released simultaneously in both formats.
Wait a second. I thought copyright law automatically granted us a copyright on our works? How is it the office can refuse any of it?
Copyright is only granted automatically on works that pass the threshold of originality and creativity required by the law. When registration ceased to be required it still continued as an option in order to preserve the livelihoods of the bureaucrats who performed it. As an incentive to register certain extra legal advantages were grsnted to registered works (otherwise no-one would have bothered).
If you attempt to register a work then the copyright office will consider whether it passes the thresholds of creativity etc before granting registration. Their failure to register this work can thus be construed as a legal opinion (although probably not a final one) that the work fails one of these tests.
The industry's idea is "content is king." They've thought that forever, and they've been wrong about it forever. Content is fungible to the point of irrelevancy; get rid of one piece of content and another will show up to take its place. The true king is connectivity.
You have to understand connectivity quite broadly. Even the old physical media provided it. However, once you realise that, you can see that when connectivity says "jump" content says "how high". Witness the standardisation of song length to fit as closely as possible within the confines of the old 78rpm discs .
Whenever connectivity provides a vessel content flows in to fill it.
But if a guy called Peter Parker happens to star in a TV show where they refer to the cast by their real names, I don't think there should be a copyright issue,
Peter Parker was chairman of British Rail in the 1970's. He was born in 1924 and was already well known before the fictional series appeared. He should have sued them.
(Both Peter and Parker are common names there really cannot be an issue.)
This isn't the Metropolitan Police - it's the City of London Police. It is a body mostly charged with detecting fraud in the City. However it seems to be doing some empire building by getting involved in copyright infringement.
(On the other hand if it is Disney that the passport office is thinking of then the existence of theis company proves that their fears are groundless!)
A better way to put it would be having a highway, that, when it was constructed, was adequate to the needs of the drivers, with sufficient lanes to handle the traffic. As time passed, and more people were on the road, it started to be more and more congested, with slowdowns and traffic jams.
However, rather than upgrade the roads themselves, adding new lanes, and maintaining the current ones, instead a special 'High-speed' lane is created, where people who pay extra can get on that, and bypass all the congestion plaguing the main system.
Once upon a time there was a spreadsheet that was different. The formulae were clearly visible (they weren't hidden in the cells). The data items had names - not cell addresses. In short it was to existing spreadsheets as high level languages are to assembly language.
I bought a copy (one of my very few software purchases). Twenty-one years later I still use it. It is still hugely better than excel and its clones. It was (is) called Improv.
The fact that it did not take over is a tragedy of market failure. The fact that I have increasing difficulty keeping it going (confined now to a virtual xp box) is a tragedy of copyright.
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Hmmm.
So you would rather work (pointlessly) than be a gentleman of leisure?
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How about being the brother of the natural parent of the monkey?
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Well we already know the answer to that from the WTO case between the US and Antigua.
Don't expect Russia to behave any differently.
(And by the way the WTO that found against the US is far more fair, open and even handed than the tribunals the rule on the investor-state disputes)
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Hooray!
Yippee!
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"The 45 rpm discs typically emulated the playing time of the former 78 rpm discs,"
So the 78 set the initial standard and the 45 matched it - remember there was a time in the early 1950s when both formats coexisted and many songs (eg much of Elvis's early work) were released simultaneously in both formats.
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Copyright is only granted automatically on works that pass the threshold of originality and creativity required by the law. When registration ceased to be required it still continued as an option in order to preserve the livelihoods of the bureaucrats who performed it. As an incentive to register certain extra legal advantages were grsnted to registered works (otherwise no-one would have bothered).
If you attempt to register a work then the copyright office will consider whether it passes the thresholds of creativity etc before granting registration. Their failure to register this work can thus be construed as a legal opinion (although probably not a final one) that the work fails one of these tests.
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Content vs connectivity
You have to understand connectivity quite broadly. Even the old physical media provided it. However, once you realise that, you can see that when connectivity says "jump" content says "how high". Witness the standardisation of song length to fit as closely as possible within the confines of the old 78rpm discs .
Whenever connectivity provides a vessel content flows in to fill it.
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Peter Parker was chairman of British Rail in the 1970's. He was born in 1924 and was already well known before the fictional series appeared. He should have sued them.
(Both Peter and Parker are common names there really cannot be an issue.)
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Re: They do because they can...
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Not Disney
http://www.skywalker.com/
(On the other hand if it is Disney that the passport office is thinking of then the existence of theis company proves that their fears are groundless!)
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But They could!
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Luke
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I don't think the name can be anyone's property. It is too short for copyright - and trademark has to refer to a particular line of business.
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However, rather than upgrade the roads themselves, adding new lanes, and maintaining the current ones, instead a special 'High-speed' lane is created, where people who pay extra can get on that, and bypass all the congestion plaguing the main system.
You just described the M6 Toll road!
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Once upon a time
I bought a copy (one of my very few software purchases). Twenty-one years later I still use it. It is still hugely better than excel and its clones. It was (is) called Improv.
The fact that it did not take over is a tragedy of market failure. The fact that I have increasing difficulty keeping it going (confined now to a virtual xp box) is a tragedy of copyright.
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