They would have no rights in this regard. The design would likely be considered public domain. However offensive they might find it, they would not be able to stop another person's expressive choice to wear those tattoos.
Unless it is an odd situation, there probably is a good fair use argument in any event. Though, it would be interesting for a celebrity to get a tattoo from a tattoo artist that they know will not consent to a transmission of the art and use it to stop the paparazzi.
Unless there is a employer-employee relationship, there needs to be a "written instrument" to make a work for hire and only certain types of work are eligible to be works for hire. So, for it to be a work for hire, you need to sign a contract with the tattoo artist that specifies that the tattoo is a work for hire.
Sony is delusional if they think they can close pandora's box. If it isn't Geohot, then it will be someone else. That someone else will work hard to stay under the radar. Instead of embracing the PS3 hacking community and thus having some level of influence, they have thrown it all away.
The senate report is complete bunk. People who care about the work will preserve it. People have a good idea to reuse the work will propagate it. All after the work has entered into the public domain. There is no incentive to preserve a work with apparently no economic value while the copyright exists.
At some point, the public will lose their appetite for allowing Big Content to bribe politicians at the expense of our culture. Instead of trying to go the political route, the public will simply revolt. In the US, our politicians are for the most part entirely captured by Big Content; rare is the dissenting voice. The masses will rebel, Big Content will martial the power of the state to try to put down the rebellion.
As I type this, it is all sounding eerily familiar...
Society at large is harmed by extending copyrights for absurd periods of time. Instead of incentives to create works the benefit society, people are encouraged to sit an their laurels and coast on one expression for a long time.
It is time we put a bullet into the romantic notion of creativity. So called "creative people" should have to work just like the rest of us.
Abandonment traditionally required the intent to abandon. I think it would be hard to say that leaving data online for 180 shows that your formed that intent (unless, of course, we are talking about anything on myspace, which I think it is safe to assume that everything currently on myspace has been abandoned).
It sounds like we need to have pitchfork and torch aficionado convention on the steps on the capital building.
You would think that the MPAA would try to style a message so that it appeals to the under 35 crowd. If they want to hearts and minds, that is the audience they are going to have to reach. You try to tell someone of the internet generation anything about "it being patriotic to do this... not to do that..." and all you are going to get is a bunch of eye-rolling.
Unfortunately, most politicians are:
A) Older than dirt; and
B) overly sentimental rubes
Why we consumer put up with this is beyond me. The underlying concept of cable is: consumers pay to be advertised to. Delivering content is just a secondary burden that the cable companies have to fulfill. When you subscribe to cable, you get "Hundreds of channels" but only 10 you watch with any regularity. If it was about consumers paying for content, cable companies would allow you to buy channels a la carte and force the channels to fight to the death for viewers.
I was under the impression that KV did not actually develop this drug. I heard something about it being developed by Squibb but lost because of their misconduct.
The $200 million could have been the cost of setting up the required facility to mass produce the drug. That does sound steep, but hey, my knowledge of drug manufacturing is very limited.
I hope that the stock dropped because people finally realized what douches the managed were.
I don't have a device that the stylus would have been useful for, but I went to the page because the idea intrigues me. I calculated the amount of money each person was required to pay to make it to the goal. It turns out to be $16.67, well under the $25 dollar ultimate price. When I went there, over half the 3000 slots were taken, but the goal was less than half met. It turned out that the average person was giving $15.50 at that point. It makes you wonder. If I was interested, I would have put in $17ish because if I thought it was cool, I knew the minimum amount required and it would still have been a good deal. I guess my engineering background does not prepare me to deal with the irrational whims of humanity.
The only way to get a company like AT&T to care is to hit them where it hurts. We need one of those young, unemployed lawyers to get creative and come up with a way to sue AT&T under some theory of law. In fact, there are a lot of young, unemployed lawyers. If they put their heads together, I am sure they'll be able to come up with something. To get the ball rolling, they can use Kickstarter to fund the lawsuit. This could potentially make a few new careers.
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Probably not a work for hire
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf
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What is that public to do?
At some point, the public will lose their appetite for allowing Big Content to bribe politicians at the expense of our culture. Instead of trying to go the political route, the public will simply revolt. In the US, our politicians are for the most part entirely captured by Big Content; rare is the dissenting voice. The masses will rebel, Big Content will martial the power of the state to try to put down the rebellion.
As I type this, it is all sounding eerily familiar...
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The Cultural Harm of Extending Copyrights
It is time we put a bullet into the romantic notion of creativity. So called "creative people" should have to work just like the rest of us.
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It sounds like we need to have pitchfork and torch aficionado convention on the steps on the capital building.
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"What does it take to succeed in life?"
If you answer "Hard work" then you are probably a rich fat bastard ("I work hard for my $10,000,000 yearly salary.")
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Wrong message to the wrong people?
Unfortunately, most politicians are:
A) Older than dirt; and
B) overly sentimental rubes
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Re: Slow down there!
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Re: This is sick
The $200 million could have been the cost of setting up the required facility to mass produce the drug. That does sound steep, but hey, my knowledge of drug manufacturing is very limited.
I hope that the stock dropped because people finally realized what douches the managed were.
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Tragedy of the Commons
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