OMG, or maybe someone infringed! Yes! You got 'em, guys! Hooray! Next you'll tell me that one of them drinks and drives and cheats on his taxes. It's almost like they employ human beings. Wow!
I think the real story is that you desperados think this is a story that actually matters. I can see how excited you and Mike and the pirate gang all get about it. Too funny.
You guys are too much. Maybe it's a couple of employees being naughty. I bet some look at porn too. Next you'll tell that employees there drive over the speed limit. Wow!! You guys (Mike most especially) are so terribly desperate to discredit the MPAA that it's hilarious. TD is a barrel of laughs every time.
Mike won't discuss lots of things. He spouts out high-level nonsense but runs away when someone wants to get specific. I think that's bullshit and I point it out.
It's cute though how you're obsessed with me. Thanks for the compliment.
Right. They would never have wanted to have home movies in everyone's home video PLAYER. You guys are so blinded by your hate of the MPAA (Mike most especially) that it's amusing.
Yes, they were worried about a home RECORDER. Not a home PLAYER. See the difference? Mike's argument is just stupid. His rebuttal to the studios' current concern about piracy is to bring up the VCR--that obviously doesn't address the point.
30 years ago, the very same MPAA was doing its damndest to make sure there was no home video market as it sought to kill off the VCR.
I really don't understand this argument that you oft repeat. If the VCR hadn't come out, surely another home video player would have with movies supplied by the studios. You assume that no one would have had any way to watch videos at home. I can't imagine that ever would have happened.
So wait. After having their first account frozen, these guys opened up a second account at the same place? These guys are criminal masterminds! No wonder Mike idolizes them so.
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With the 1976 Act, unpublished works were brought into the federal system and given a life + 70 term. So that means, for example, that any unpublished letters, manuscripts, diaries, etc. in the Stefan Zweig collection at SUNY-Fredonia will enter the public domain on 1 January 2013, since Zweig committed suicide in 1942.
I see it now in Section 303: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/303 Thanks for the info! And good job finding a work falling into the public domain this year. Mike will be so happy, I'm sure. Culture is saved!
If it is any consolation, there will be works entering the public domain in the US on 1 January 2013: the unpublished works of any author who died in 1942. And unlike as in the EU, these works cannot be put back into copyright by publishing them for the first time.
Interesting... What's the reason for that, though? Maybe I'm just brain-farting, but I thought that unpublished works pre-1976 Act wouldn't have had any federal copyright protection to begin with since the protection began with publication. How can they fall into the public domain if they were never protected in the first place?
Which side will you support when the next effort is made to extend copyright to prevent those works falling into the public domain?
I don't think there will be any serious move to extend it yet again, despite the anti-copyright hysteria to the contrary. If someone suggested another extension, I'd be curious to know why they thought it was needed since I don't think it's possible to know what the optimal term of copyright is.
I don't know if it's valid or not. I glanced at it and laughed. The point is that Mike is arguing that the sky is falling or the sky is rising, whichever suits the particular purpose at hand. I think in general Mike tends to grab onto whatever argument gets him where he wants to be. It's not a good thing.
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It's cute though how you're obsessed with me. Thanks for the compliment.
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You guys think about that way more than me.
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[Do you really sit around all day and think about how much you hate the MPAA? Seems like it.]
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I really don't understand this argument that you oft repeat. If the VCR hadn't come out, surely another home video player would have with movies supplied by the studios. You assume that no one would have had any way to watch videos at home. I can't imagine that ever would have happened.
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I see it now in Section 303: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/303 Thanks for the info! And good job finding a work falling into the public domain this year. Mike will be so happy, I'm sure. Culture is saved!
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Interesting... What's the reason for that, though? Maybe I'm just brain-farting, but I thought that unpublished works pre-1976 Act wouldn't have had any federal copyright protection to begin with since the protection began with publication. How can they fall into the public domain if they were never protected in the first place?
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I don't think there will be any serious move to extend it yet again, despite the anti-copyright hysteria to the contrary. If someone suggested another extension, I'd be curious to know why they thought it was needed since I don't think it's possible to know what the optimal term of copyright is.
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