But that particular AC has a strawman Mike that he insists is the real Mike
As well as half the commenters here.
(I used to wonder if the reason he always put my name in quotation marks was that he was accusing me of being a sockpuppet, or because he just doesn't know how to use quotation marks correctly.)
Re: Do you really think the Right in the USA is bothered?
They'll come up with some other way of spreading their propaganda.
Yes, but will it have the same reach OAN did?
Make no mistake, corporations in the US don't give a toss about Left/Right politics, they will do whatever makes them the most profit. If spreading Right-wing propaganda is good for their bottom line they will jump to it!
And if it becomes too much of a liability, they'll toss it.
Fox News is still in high enough demand that it's safe. OAN, clearly, was not. It was bad for business and that's why it's gone.
While some printer manufacturers have used the chips on their ink to prevent third-party cartridges from working (looking at you, HP), all Canon does when it detects an unauthorized cartridge is pop up a warning that it's not authorized.
The "workaround for obnoxious DRM"* you describe are to click the "I Agree" button. That's it. It's DRM in the same way that WinZip's nag screen is DRM.
* note: page is in German but screenshots are in English and are self-explanatory
Voter apathy is a convenient scapegoat because it ignores systemic anti-democratic problems with the US system of government in general and access to voting in particular. The Senate and presidency are undemocratic institutions by design; the House is nominally representative but, due to a number of decisions from gerrymandering to the 435-representative cap, is not particularly democratic in practice.
And that's before we get into the deliberate voter disenfranchisement efforts we've been seeing, from voter ID laws to limited access to polling stations to the recent wave of anti-"ballot harvesting" legislation designed to make it more difficult for (historically Black) institutions to help people get their ballots to the ballot box.
Yes, by all means, vote in every election and hold our representatives' feet to the fire. But part of holding their feet to the fire needs to include pressuring them to reform the filibuster and pass voting rights legislation.
The National Film Registry falls under the Library of Congress's purview and isn't driven by copyright. I don't think moving the copyright office out of the LoC would disincentivize it to preserve copyrighted works.
Yep, that's markdown. It doesn't matter what number you put at the beginning of a line, it'll always start a numbered list at 1.
(It's fairly common for Markdown lists to go "1., 1., 1." etc. and let the formatter convert them into actual sequential numbers. Saves the trouble of having to renumber if you change the order.)
You probably can't get away with that title; Disney still owns the trademark.
But if you want to publish a book with Xi Jinping as Winnie-the-Pooh, that in itself is legal now. Just so long as you make him look like the Shepard illustrations, not the Disney ones.
"It's been four years now since Disney finally started allowing old works to enter the public domain".
I mean Disney can't actually just extend copyright terms unilaterally. They were instrumental in getting the 1998 extension passed, but, y'know, Congress did have a little something to do with it.
Depends on how you define "piracy", I guess. While copyright is automatic now, registration is still required if you want to sue somebody for infringing it.
And while the first book is now public domain, and the second one will be in two years, Disney still owns the "Winnie the Pooh" trademark, all the movies and TV series, and the Disney version of the character designs. You're free to publish your own Winnie-the-Pooh stories now, but you'd better not include any illustrations where he's wearing a red shirt.
And you'd better not include Tigger, either. At least not for two more years.
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Re: My question is this…
No, he's all in on "It's not defamation because I actually sincerely believe this."
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Entering? No.
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Re: Where's blueballs?
God, are people still doing that "Where's Poochie?" thing?
The troll's so far inside all your heads that you feed him even when he's not around.
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Re:
I really don't think cognitive dissonance was ever a problem for that one.
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Re: Re:
As well as half the commenters here.
(I used to wonder if the reason he always put my name in quotation marks was that he was accusing me of being a sockpuppet, or because he just doesn't know how to use quotation marks correctly.)
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Re: Do you really think the Right in the USA is bothered?
Yes, but will it have the same reach OAN did?
And if it becomes too much of a liability, they'll toss it.
Fox News is still in high enough demand that it's safe. OAN, clearly, was not. It was bad for business and that's why it's gone.
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NFT Investor Reminds Skeptics Everything Else In World Stupid And Meaningless Too
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Re:
Brother has historically been pretty good, though I hear they too have gotten in on the DRM con recently.
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Calling it "DRM" is a stretch.
While some printer manufacturers have used the chips on their ink to prevent third-party cartridges from working (looking at you, HP), all Canon does when it detects an unauthorized cartridge is pop up a warning that it's not authorized.
The "workaround for obnoxious DRM"* you describe are to click the "I Agree" button. That's it. It's DRM in the same way that WinZip's nag screen is DRM.
* note: page is in German but screenshots are in English and are self-explanatory
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Re: Another viewpoint...
Voter apathy is a convenient scapegoat because it ignores systemic anti-democratic problems with the US system of government in general and access to voting in particular. The Senate and presidency are undemocratic institutions by design; the House is nominally representative but, due to a number of decisions from gerrymandering to the 435-representative cap, is not particularly democratic in practice.
And that's before we get into the deliberate voter disenfranchisement efforts we've been seeing, from voter ID laws to limited access to polling stations to the recent wave of anti-"ballot harvesting" legislation designed to make it more difficult for (historically Black) institutions to help people get their ballots to the ballot box.
Yes, by all means, vote in every election and hold our representatives' feet to the fire. But part of holding their feet to the fire needs to include pressuring them to reform the filibuster and pass voting rights legislation.
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Did we ever settle on whether the Proud Boys are white supremacists?
I remember one guy got very salty with me when I said they were.
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Re: I wonder ...
The National Film Registry falls under the Library of Congress's purview and isn't driven by copyright. I don't think moving the copyright office out of the LoC would disincentivize it to preserve copyrighted works.
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Re: Re: Extremely honored
Yep, that's markdown. It doesn't matter what number you put at the beginning of a line, it'll always start a numbered list at 1.
(It's fairly common for Markdown lists to go "1., 1., 1." etc. and let the formatter convert them into actual sequential numbers. Saves the trouble of having to renumber if you change the order.)
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Re: Newest Winnie title...
You probably can't get away with that title; Disney still owns the trademark.
But if you want to publish a book with Xi Jinping as Winnie-the-Pooh, that in itself is legal now. Just so long as you make him look like the Shepard illustrations, not the Disney ones.
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Re: Re: Re: What's more,
No, actual damages still require registration.
Statutory damages require registration within three months of publication.
Here are a couple of sources:
Association of Corporate Counsel
Sturman Law
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Re: fixed it ...
I mean Disney can't actually just extend copyright terms unilaterally. They were instrumental in getting the 1998 extension passed, but, y'know, Congress did have a little something to do with it.
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Re:
No shit, but Winnie-the-Pooh is the one that entered the public domain four days ago.
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Re: What's more,
Depends on how you define "piracy", I guess. While copyright is automatic now, registration is still required if you want to sue somebody for infringing it.
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Re:
They licensed the rights starting in the '60s but finally bought them out entirely in 2001.
And while the first book is now public domain, and the second one will be in two years, Disney still owns the "Winnie the Pooh" trademark, all the movies and TV series, and the Disney version of the character designs. You're free to publish your own Winnie-the-Pooh stories now, but you'd better not include any illustrations where he's wearing a red shirt.
And you'd better not include Tigger, either. At least not for two more years.
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Re: Norton Software?
Not because it stopped working on January 1, 2010?
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