If laws are copyrighted, then would obeying the law require a copyright license?
Would obeying the law without a license constitute copyright infringement?
With so many jurisdictions (city, county, state, federal) and so many laws, there are a lot of copyright licenses that each citizen would need to acquire.
To simplify things, collection societies could be created. These societies would obtain the rights to license and enforce the licenses on copyright 'bundles' of various laws.
When a new law is passed, one of the copyright societies would acquire the rights to it and add it to its bundle. Now you can get a proper copyright license -- necessary to obey the laws -- from one convenient place, and with one single copyright fee.
Oh, wait -- but with multiple copyright societies, each licensing different subsets of the laws, it seems you would still have to go to multiple parties in order to acquire all of the necessary licenses in order to obey the laws without infringing the copyrights of those laws.
So maybe congress could establish a new federal department of law licensing. Give it suitably large budget, offices, staff, etc. Every citizen could be required, annually, just like with taxes, to file forms declaring that they intend to obey the laws, and paying the copyright license fees for those copyrighted laws they intend to follow.
Unlike with copyright, if a state could patent its laws, the law doesn't need to be hidden. The patent protects the invention, which must be disclosed openly so that other states skilled in the art could reproduce those laws -- under a suitable patent license of course.
I am not an expert in IP law, so I have a question.
Question: would obeying the law require a patent license?
Round the clock monitoring of students will create jobs!
And it can possibly create demand for robots and AIs.
Think of the children!
The round the clock surveillance can eventually be morphed into an incredible family surveillance program so that we can keep all members of society safe.
Please remember that firearms make excellent gifts for the entire family. Family packs available at participating retailers. Check out the new Starter Guns sized just right for the little ones. With optional high capacity accessories. Please use firearms responsibly when drinking. The NRA offers discounts to those who can show proof of mental impairment or illness.
'a conspiracy between prosecution and law enforcement to commit perjury and lie to the court and defense about how the actual course of the investigation proceeded'
Everyone knows that the real way to protect software is to have a specially malformed sector on the floppy disk to prevent copying. The software would ask the user to insert the floppy so it could verify the malformed sector is actually present, proving that the user is in physical possession of the original floppy disk.
pointing out that active collections seeking targeted plates was permissible, but passive collections with no end date and unrelated to ongoing investigations wasn't.
I wish they were more clear on this.
It is not the scanning / reading of license plates that I mind. It is the collecting of those scans for innocent vehicles.
A police car may read thousands of plates in a day. The vast majority of those are not vehicles of interest. So DO NOT keep a record of those. We do not want a police state that keeps a history of where every vehicle is at various points in time.
When the license plate scanner recognizes a vehicle that is of interest -- then Alert on that, and keep a timestamped record of when, where, what, etc. In this case, the scanner is looking for vehicles that are already known to be of interest. They are on a list. Because the vehicle might be stolen. Might have been used in a violent felony. Or worst of all might have unpaid tickets warranting sealing off the area and bringing in paramilitary vehicles and equipment.
Shutting down Facebook, or even only Facebook Live
Great idea! :-)
But not for the reason stated.
There are better reasons. Maybe because it will tear apart the fabric of civilized society? Maybe because it (along with Twitter) spreads falsehoods far and wide. Or maybe because Facebook uses PHP.
In the spirit of how there is no problem so great that it cannot be solved by adding more government regulation (with a side order of taxes), may I propose an idea . . .
Have a large Statutory Fine for claiming copyright over a public domain work.
Becoming the subject of a litigation, I hope the Stingray will be able to be thoroughly reviewed by the defense, and as part of a public court record its workings exposed.
I've long said that Stingray works by one of two secrets:
The mobile telecom system was designed before the Windows 95 days, and without so much security in mind. The secret of Stingray is that there exists some difficult to fix vulnerability which Stingray exploits.
Stingray exploits some stolen or improperly disclosed certificate, crypto key or credentials. This is the entire secret. If the telecom companies knew what it was, they would revoke the secret and Stingray would no longer work. And the bully law enforcement toys would stop working and they would have to go back to their regularly scheduled donuts.
In the case of 1 above, every high school kid would soon have a Stingray and poor people would be listening to rich and powerful people.
On the post: Supreme Court To Review Whether Or Not You Can Copyright State Laws
New Copyright Collection Society is needed
If laws are copyrighted, then would obeying the law require a copyright license?
Would obeying the law without a license constitute copyright infringement?
With so many jurisdictions (city, county, state, federal) and so many laws, there are a lot of copyright licenses that each citizen would need to acquire.
To simplify things, collection societies could be created. These societies would obtain the rights to license and enforce the licenses on copyright 'bundles' of various laws.
When a new law is passed, one of the copyright societies would acquire the rights to it and add it to its bundle. Now you can get a proper copyright license -- necessary to obey the laws -- from one convenient place, and with one single copyright fee.
Oh, wait -- but with multiple copyright societies, each licensing different subsets of the laws, it seems you would still have to go to multiple parties in order to acquire all of the necessary licenses in order to obey the laws without infringing the copyrights of those laws.
So maybe congress could establish a new federal department of law licensing. Give it suitably large budget, offices, staff, etc. Every citizen could be required, annually, just like with taxes, to file forms declaring that they intend to obey the laws, and paying the copyright license fees for those copyrighted laws they intend to follow.
There. That should fix everything.
On the post: Supreme Court To Review Whether Or Not You Can Copyright State Laws
Re: Should take about five minutes
It's not that simple.
Without copyright, there would be no creativity whatsoever, and thus creative laws (like asset forfeiture) could never have been created.
On the post: Supreme Court To Review Whether Or Not You Can Copyright State Laws
Re: Ownership
Unlike with copyright, if a state could patent its laws, the law doesn't need to be hidden. The patent protects the invention, which must be disclosed openly so that other states skilled in the art could reproduce those laws -- under a suitable patent license of course.
I am not an expert in IP law, so I have a question.
Question: would obeying the law require a patent license?
On the post: Robocalls Swamp Hospitals As The Trump FCC Pretends To Fix The Problem
Thank Goodness -- the FCC is on the job!
The FCC will hire a company to automatically call each and every single American to assure us that thy are working hard to end robo calls.
On the post: Content Moderation Is Impossible: You Can't Expect Moderators To Understand Satire Or Irony
But what about Sarcasm?
Content moderators may not understand Satire or Irony, but they always understand Sarcasm every single time. Thus no need to ever use sarc tags.
On the post: The Future Of School Safety Includes Round-The-Clock Surveillance Of Students
Re: want safe schools?
Round the clock monitoring of students will create jobs!
And it can possibly create demand for robots and AIs.
Think of the children!
The round the clock surveillance can eventually be morphed into an incredible family surveillance program so that we can keep all members of society safe.
Please remember that firearms make excellent gifts for the entire family. Family packs available at participating retailers. Check out the new Starter Guns sized just right for the little ones. With optional high capacity accessories. Please use firearms responsibly when drinking. The NRA offers discounts to those who can show proof of mental impairment or illness.
On the post: Why Is Congress Moving Forward With Its Plan To Encourage Copyright Trolling?
Re: I can answer that question in one word.
Why? Because Patent Trolling is working so well that we must need Copyright Trolling also.
On the post: Why Is Congress Moving Forward With Its Plan To Encourage Copyright Trolling?
Re: Re: Call a spade a spade.
What is the difference between
'parallel construction'
On the post: Rage 2 Drops Denuvo In Record Time After Customer Outcry
Why can't they get this right?
Everyone knows that the real way to protect software is to have a specially malformed sector on the floppy disk to prevent copying. The software would ask the user to insert the floppy so it could verify the malformed sector is actually present, proving that the user is in physical possession of the original floppy disk.
On the post: At Long Last, NSA Finally Recommends Its Bulk Phone Collection Program Be Put Out Of Its Misery
Re: Don't Be Naive
The reason they have a super secret program to replace it is:
On the post: At Long Last, NSA Finally Recommends Its Bulk Phone Collection Program Be Put Out Of Its Misery
Put out of its misery
I think you mean:
NSA Finally Recommends . . . Program Be Put Out Of OUR Misery
On the post: Good News From The EU For A Change: A Strong Directive To Protect Whistleblowers
Define Whistleblowers
Was Luke Skywalker a Freedom Fighter or a Terrorist?
On the post: Verizon's 'World First' 5G Launch Was A Bit of a Dud
About that headline . . .
If you replace the word Dud with Fraud, I could agree even more.
On the post: Court Says Virginia PD's Use Of Automatic Plate Readers Violates State's Data Privacy Law
It is the Collecting that is the problem
I wish they were more clear on this.
It is not the scanning / reading of license plates that I mind. It is the collecting of those scans for innocent vehicles.
A police car may read thousands of plates in a day. The vast majority of those are not vehicles of interest. So DO NOT keep a record of those. We do not want a police state that keeps a history of where every vehicle is at various points in time.
When the license plate scanner recognizes a vehicle that is of interest -- then Alert on that, and keep a timestamped record of when, where, what, etc. In this case, the scanner is looking for vehicles that are already known to be of interest. They are on a list. Because the vehicle might be stolen. Might have been used in a violent felony. Or worst of all might have unpaid tickets warranting sealing off the area and bringing in paramilitary vehicles and equipment.
On the post: Complete Overreaction: Professor Calls For Shutting Down Facebook Live, Post-Christchurch
Right Idea -- Wrong Reason
Shutting down Facebook, or even only Facebook Live
Great idea! :-)
But not for the reason stated.
There are better reasons. Maybe because it will tear apart the fabric of civilized society? Maybe because it (along with Twitter) spreads falsehoods far and wide. Or maybe because Facebook uses PHP.
On the post: Getty Images Sued Yet Again For Trying To License Public Domain Images
An idea
In the spirit of how there is no problem so great that it cannot be solved by adding more government regulation (with a side order of taxes), may I propose an idea . . .
Have a large Statutory Fine for claiming copyright over a public domain work.
Doing so is a clear harm to the public interest.
On the post: Mark Zuckerberg To Congress: Okay, Fine, Please Regulate Me And Lock In My Dominant Market Position
Please investigate
If there is one crime that should be investigated it is Facebook's choice to use PHP.
On the post: Court Documents Show Canadian Law Enforcement Operated Stingrays Indiscriminately, Sweeping Up Thousands Of Innocent Phone Owners
The best thing that could happen
Oh, how I hope and pray.
Becoming the subject of a litigation, I hope the Stingray will be able to be thoroughly reviewed by the defense, and as part of a public court record its workings exposed.
I've long said that Stingray works by one of two secrets:
In the case of 1 above, every high school kid would soon have a Stingray and poor people would be listening to rich and powerful people.
On the post: The EU's Catastrophic Copyright Directive Can Still Be Stopped, If Governments Of Sweden And Germany Do The Right Thing
The Right Thing
Yes, this harm can be fixed if they will do The Right Thing.
The Right Thing, like any valuable resource is a marketable commodity in the best traditions of capitalism.
On the post: The FTC Says It's Totally Cool With Anti-Competitive Internet Fast Lanes
Re: Just doing their job
So any surprise the FTC is also not doing its job.
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