That's not the point of copyright. The point is to create a profit motive to encourage new works. Not to keep something private until nobody wants it anymore.
The "dangers" of second hand smoke are hugely exaggerated. The health nannies get away with it only because tobacco companies are one of those areas where we are allowed to be abusive because no one of significance will come to their defense.
No commonly used term or phrase should be protectable.
Ever. Not in copyright, not in trademark. Not in anything. If they want rights, they should come up with something new. Anything less is a fraud upon the public.
The public good is an American concept. European IP has a completely different philosophical foundation, which is why the U.S. didn't used and still shouldn't pay any attention to what Europe is doing when it decides what it will do.
Bad as it may be, our system is better. And it shows in the statistics. They should be learning from us, not the other way around.
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Exactly. The childish ignorance of this article is impressive. Every country spies, every country tries to stop others from spying on them. That's how it works, that's how it has always worked, that's how it should work.
The notion that there is something hypocritical about that is, well...hypocrisy is irrelevant to international relations. As it should be.
Of course trailers are misleading. How often do they come right out and say, "this movie sucks, I mean, really. It sounded nice at the pitch meeting, but, turns out, it sucks. Save your money."
Never, and we don't expect them too, either. That's why we read reviews or wait for a friend to see it first. Cripes, suing for a poorly spent twelve bucks?
Look, lady, if truth in advertising applied to entertainment, the whole industry would collapse. And then what are you going to do on your next first date? Talk?
I was thinking of The Gulag Archipelago. There's a section where Solzhenitsyn talks about the huge difference being a prisoner of the USSR vs. the United States, where you have the right to know what the law is. There was more to it than that, but "the law is a secret" is something he put clearly on the Stalin side of the ledger.
Maybe they did, and, per procedure, replaced it with this site showing the anti-piracy video. Which they then seized and replaced with...would you know you were in a hall of mirrors if you could see only one mirror at a time?
Disney thinks people need to be encouraged to listen to Sports live rather than delayed? Is there really not one single person at Disney who knows a damn thing about sports?
I don't how long it's going to take me to use my last 10 stamps, but if this campaign helps them stick around long enough that I don't have to eat the loss, then more power to them!
Nah. Maybe their service was under priced and needed to be adjusted to reflect costs, but trying to hide a 60% price increase within a service split has a whiff of insult about it.
You beat me to it. Promoting the arts and sciences is an American concept. In Europe, IP rights are moral rights--the creator owns it because he created it. "Limited time" and "public good" are not part of their IP culture.
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No commonly used term or phrase should be protectable.
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Promoting Innovation is an American concept
Bad as it may be, our system is better. And it shows in the statistics. They should be learning from us, not the other way around.
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The notion that there is something hypocritical about that is, well...hypocrisy is irrelevant to international relations. As it should be.
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Movies are all kinda buyer beware, aren't they?
Never, and we don't expect them too, either. That's why we read reviews or wait for a friend to see it first. Cripes, suing for a poorly spent twelve bucks?
Look, lady, if truth in advertising applied to entertainment, the whole industry would collapse. And then what are you going to do on your next first date? Talk?
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