This seems like a typical negotiating tactic. You ask for a LOT more than you know anyone else is willing to give. Then you work your down to something more "reasonable" in order to get close to what you really want out of a deal.
Keep using this process and you can slowly ratchet up the concessions from others.
Unfortunately, this process doesn't end unless there's a major push from the opposition. Once power is gained, it is rarely ever relinquished.
Yes, it seems silly in its redundancy when broken down. However it is still grammatically correct when using TOS (as opposed to TAS, TNG, DS9) as a proper name rather than just an acronym.
Seth MacFarlane has expressed an interest in restarting the TOS series. Perhaps there is something really going on behind the scenes with MacFarlane (Family Guy creator) and CBS Paramount?
I actually searched the page for Spider-Man to see if anyone else remembered. Though the CCA was put in place due to senatorial hearings on the corruptive influence on comic books towards kids. The same arguments we'd hear later on for video games and the resulting creation of the ESRB.
The decision by Stan Lee and Marvel Comics opened the flood gates to comic book publication and distribution for more mature materials to reach a wider (older) audience. I wonder if this decision would do the same for other productions that wish to reach a wider (younger) audience in the same way.
You didn't appropriate any veggies from them in the first place.
You're right, I didn't. If we were to take this example and build on it, I could have gotten seeds from the previously purchased foods. It isn't too terribly difficult to take a root veggie or a bulb like onion or garlic and get it to grow a new plant.
With that, I'd have purchased a stock item, reproduced it and shared it with others. I could conceivably do this over and over and over. Now you might think this is perfectly legal thing to do. But what if the original material was grown by a licensed farmer who used stock from say, Monsanto?
Last year I planted a bunch of seeds in my back yard garden. The resulting plants blossomed and eventually developed into a variety of fruits and vegetables. I had so many in fact that I shared with my friends and neighbors.
Now these people and I didn't buy the same fruits and veggies from the supermarket which is just two miles away. So then are we stealing from the grocery store since each tomato and carrot we ate from my garden is a lost sale to them?
Now if someone (like those damned raccoons) came in and helped themselves - I wouldn't have had as much food stuff to consume and share. I'm at a loss because of a limited supply. THAT'S stealing. Even if it is from sneaky little bandit-faced canids who live in the wild.
Now, I know it's a bad comparison. Seeing that I'll need to rework my garden again this year for another harvest while a digital file can be copied endlessly without loss to the original owner.
You aren't thinking in the long term. These "great solutions" are multi-layered schemes that are designed to pay off a number of people in the long term.
The first to get paid are the lobbyists and their political allies.
Next are the CEOs who had already set up a business for privatizing the now government mandated legal solution.
Then you have activist groups - both grass roots and astroturf - which are paid to stir up trouble to either expand or remove the new policies after they've been abused. (For the Children!)
After that are the lawyers and judges who have to deal with the resulting fallout from people unknowingly violating the laws. On both sides of the now controversial issue.
It goes on and on down the line until you finally get to the scruffy looking bum on the corner selling USB keys with encryption software. However you never know if he's an underground gray hat, or an FBI agent working on a sting operation.
IIRC in that case, the mother decided to give up her baby instead of seeing it cut in half. So the judge awarded full custody to the company and fined the former mother to pay for the company's legal fees.
Perhaps if they see the error of their ways they can make changes to the betterment of their business as well as society of a whole. Not to mention their customers world-wide.
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Keep using this process and you can slowly ratchet up the concessions from others.
Unfortunately, this process doesn't end unless there's a major push from the opposition. Once power is gained, it is rarely ever relinquished.
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In which case, it doesn't matter how long copyright lasts, they still don't own their own work.
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The decision by Stan Lee and Marvel Comics opened the flood gates to comic book publication and distribution for more mature materials to reach a wider (older) audience. I wonder if this decision would do the same for other productions that wish to reach a wider (younger) audience in the same way.
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You're right, I didn't. If we were to take this example and build on it, I could have gotten seeds from the previously purchased foods. It isn't too terribly difficult to take a root veggie or a bulb like onion or garlic and get it to grow a new plant.
With that, I'd have purchased a stock item, reproduced it and shared it with others. I could conceivably do this over and over and over. Now you might think this is perfectly legal thing to do. But what if the original material was grown by a licensed farmer who used stock from say, Monsanto?
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Now these people and I didn't buy the same fruits and veggies from the supermarket which is just two miles away. So then are we stealing from the grocery store since each tomato and carrot we ate from my garden is a lost sale to them?
Now if someone (like those damned raccoons) came in and helped themselves - I wouldn't have had as much food stuff to consume and share. I'm at a loss because of a limited supply. THAT'S stealing. Even if it is from sneaky little bandit-faced canids who live in the wild.
Now, I know it's a bad comparison. Seeing that I'll need to rework my garden again this year for another harvest while a digital file can be copied endlessly without loss to the original owner.
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Who makes the users all suspect?
ICANN! ICANN!
Karl: Who leaves websites off the maps?
Lenny: Who keeps trade agreements under wraps?
Alien: ICANN! ICAN!
All: Who lets the gov'ment go too far?
And who makes Lamar Smith a star?
ICANN! ICANN!
Skinner: Who robs musicians of their sites?
Homer: Who rigs every panel night?
All: ICANN! ICANN!
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The first to get paid are the lobbyists and their political allies.
Next are the CEOs who had already set up a business for privatizing the now government mandated legal solution.
Then you have activist groups - both grass roots and astroturf - which are paid to stir up trouble to either expand or remove the new policies after they've been abused. (For the Children!)
After that are the lawyers and judges who have to deal with the resulting fallout from people unknowingly violating the laws. On both sides of the now controversial issue.
It goes on and on down the line until you finally get to the scruffy looking bum on the corner selling USB keys with encryption software. However you never know if he's an underground gray hat, or an FBI agent working on a sting operation.
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