I would think with the recent news that the Netherlands was doing away with Database rights, and making more efforts to make their IP laws make some type of sense that the IIPA would be pushing to have them on it.
If you had said (certainly any over about 100 employees) I might think you are right. Many companies with fewer employees look at that recurring annual cost versus the price of a boxed set, and opt for the boxed set and operate with different versions depending making a support problem for those of us handling it. I've tried repeatedly to get my company of about 25 employees to go the licensing route but they look at the cost and tell me to deal with the mixed environment.
It would be nice if when the Opinion is published that it said only. "After careful consideration the court decided that 'Public Document' actually meant 'Public'".
This is a fairly short Techdirt post. I was going to show how unrealistic the law was by counting the words in the post, but when I got to 156 in the first paragraph I changed my mind.
The judge actually said: "A reasonable investigation should include evidence showing the defendants downloaded the entire copyrighted work - or at least a usable portion of a copyrighted work."
Rule 1 was TorrentLawyers paraphrasing of that. I think the point is since torrents are a mess of fragments that are not in order, that you need to show they got at least something watchable.
Did you actually listen, or did you just want to take a jab.
I'm an old foggy, but I liked their last album. I like what I've heard on the new album. I appreciated the personal e-mail exchange that Andy had with me after I bought their album when the transparency post was here at TD.
Assuming you did listen and really didn't like it, aren't you glad that they are confident enough in their art and their fans that they let you listen before you had to pay so you know you don't want it?
Like I said, there was no searching involved in my case. The incident in the post says the officer "insisted he help them look for the drugs", which sounds very different than them digging through things looking for them. Again I think it really depends on the respectfulness shown by the people involved.
The entire week after a death is hectic. I'm personally think that them being there for that at the same time as the funeral home people gets it out of the way and gives you one less thing to have to do later and is possible less intrusive than doing it later. You have a mess of strangers in your home then anyway. In my case since the local pharmacy didn't have the morphine, it would have meant a 30 mile drive later when I had other things to do to return the drugs to the pharmacy. All it takes is a little respect and diplomacy from the officer involved.
The practice of the police coming after a death of someone with legal narcotics in the house is not new. When my father passed away at home in 1998 in a small town in Arkansas the police arrived along with the hospice nurse and the funeral home representatives.
The nurse and police officer together inventoried and then disposed of the morphine in the house. I assumed this was both to keep it from being misused, and to confirm that no one had overdosed him.
In that incident it did not feel like an invasion at all. I guess it depends on the respectfulness shown by the officer. They did not search the house, they just asked for me to bring the morphine at an appropriate moment, took it into the kitchen and performed their procedure.
"After all, the Copyright Alliance isn't a part of the United States government, ..."
How can you tell?? They are in all the back rooms of government helping make the laws. The Justice Department makes announcements from their (members) offices. They tell the government which websites to go after. What exactly is the distinction????
The notice/update about adding the 2 additional charities was made 2 days after the campaign started, on the campaign site, so as long as the original 2 get all of the amount at that time, I don't see where there is room to complain.
What Carreon need to realize is that the appeal made by Inman was not "Help cure Cancer, and Help Save Bears", the appeal was "Help me tell Funnyjunk, 'Up Yours'".
The fact that he is now at over 1000% of that goal should give Carreon some clue that he isn't on the right side of this thing.
Obviously someone of his stature could not be wrong about that. Given that, then there is absolutely no need to ever again try to pass a new IP law. The current setup is perfect!
Well he copied "Thunder" from the name of the team, and he copied "Let's go" from the chant of every other team in America (or is that Amercia). It makes perfect sense to me that he should get wealth from then combining the two. If he had added two claps between every time the line was repeated it would of been worth 50% of the teams gross.
Not only is this judge not technology illiterate, but understands the lingo well enough to use it to bitch slap the US prosecutors making ridiculous arguments.
One of the reasons (notice I didn't say the only reason) that Amanda Palmers Kickstarter is doing so well is the fact that she has produced awesome content in the past. People trust that this album will be awesome as well. If it isn't her next Kickstarter effort probably will not go as well.
By the same token a new artist that doesn't have an existing track record will not be able to have the kind of numbers on Kickstarter that she did, but that doesn't mean it can't be successful, and maybe their 2nd or 3rd effort could have those numbers.
I don't think anyone needs to worry about being known only from their Kickstarter. If the content is crap, they won't be know for their next one.
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No Netherlands?
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Re: Won't Impact Companies
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The Opinion
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100 Words?????
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Re: Rule 1
Rule 1 was TorrentLawyers paraphrasing of that. I think the point is since torrents are a mess of fragments that are not in order, that you need to show they got at least something watchable.
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Re: That's Music?
I'm an old foggy, but I liked their last album. I like what I've heard on the new album. I appreciated the personal e-mail exchange that Andy had with me after I bought their album when the transparency post was here at TD.
Assuming you did listen and really didn't like it, aren't you glad that they are confident enough in their art and their fans that they let you listen before you had to pay so you know you don't want it?
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Re: Re: Legal Drugs for Terminal Patient
The entire week after a death is hectic. I'm personally think that them being there for that at the same time as the funeral home people gets it out of the way and gives you one less thing to have to do later and is possible less intrusive than doing it later. You have a mess of strangers in your home then anyway. In my case since the local pharmacy didn't have the morphine, it would have meant a 30 mile drive later when I had other things to do to return the drugs to the pharmacy. All it takes is a little respect and diplomacy from the officer involved.
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Re: Legal Drugs for Terminal Patient
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Legal Drugs for Terminal Patient
The nurse and police officer together inventoried and then disposed of the morphine in the house. I assumed this was both to keep it from being misused, and to confirm that no one had overdosed him.
In that incident it did not feel like an invasion at all. I guess it depends on the respectfulness shown by the officer. They did not search the house, they just asked for me to bring the morphine at an appropriate moment, took it into the kitchen and performed their procedure.
On the post: Copyright Alliance Invents New History (And New Meanings For 'Big' And 'Little') To Condemn Antigua
Re: But technically they DO have a point
How can you tell?? They are in all the back rooms of government helping make the laws. The Justice Department makes announcements from their (members) offices. They tell the government which websites to go after. What exactly is the distinction????
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Re: Re: Re: One valid point
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Missing the Point
The fact that he is now at over 1000% of that goal should give Carreon some clue that he isn't on the right side of this thing.
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He's Right
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2 wrongs = 1 right?
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Wasn't that announced from the deck of an aircraft carrier???
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I love it
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It's a circle, or maybe a spiral
By the same token a new artist that doesn't have an existing track record will not be able to have the kind of numbers on Kickstarter that she did, but that doesn't mean it can't be successful, and maybe their 2nd or 3rd effort could have those numbers.
I don't think anyone needs to worry about being known only from their Kickstarter. If the content is crap, they won't be know for their next one.
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$10 Million is neccessary
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