I don't think their claim is similar at all. They may own the physical statue, but they don't own it's likeness. It's not like the photographer is physically stealing the statue when he makes a copy of it.
Yo, stop it with the ignoratio elenchi, Richard. We get it, you think the Second Amendment was a bad idea. But your drawing the issue away from what the article meant to address, which are the deplorable actions of a rookie police officer and the unchecked power of police unions.
BTW be careful. According to the Torrentfreak article, the .cr piratebay domain is diverting people to a .ee domain and asking people for $4 to access torrents. Stay away.
Man, I really wish other sites were as easy to comment on as Techdirt... There's so many idiots I want to give a good verbal drubbing about this topic on other sites, but I can't!
I find it funny there's so many "former" NSA officials. It makes it seem like once everything went public their fun was over and they didn't want to deal with the consequences so they all bailed ship before they got in too much trouble.
oh wait... that's probably exactly what happened, isn't it?
Wait, I thought the Threshold of Originality was just the law that made it so you can't just copyright simple text and geometric shapes? Is there some deeper part of the law I'm not aware of?
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*facepalm*
why the hell would they NOT use their cellphones when they thought they were being attacked by a mad gunman?!?
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