This is hilarious logic. I'd love to see the kind of country that this would actually trip up.
Enemy Brass: Okay, the plan is to infiltrate their base by dressing our soldiers in similar uniforms.
Enemy Lawyer: I'm afraid we can't do that. They have a patent on their uniform design.
Enemy Brass: Damn! Back to the drawing board then. Unless...perhaps we could license it for a couple days? What's the procedure for that?
The trouble with that is, it only takes ONE above average college student, and it's game over. MrWilson has it right - this sounds like a situation where they're thinking of auto-charging the cost to the students' tuition. Then it doesn't matter *what* they do with the textbooks.
Yeah, after my first year, I took to waiting till the second week before deciding whether I needed to buy the textbook. SO many professors weigh tests primarily on lecture material, rather than textbook material. But it all depended on the professor - every one was different.
The idea that future students would have no choice in the matter - indeed, that it would automatically be taken out of their expenses - sounds like a nightmare to me.
Sounded like a per-session thing to me too, with the final number stored in a browser cookie.
Keep in mind though, that it may not be a test per-se. You're right that this happens a lot in the market, but many times it happens with no clear goal attached to it. For example, if you reserve a rental car at Enterprise's website, the quoted price will ALWAYS be randomly selected from a narrow range of prices, no matter what time of the day/year/decade you do it.
Why this is I'll never know. Some businesses just like mixing it up I guess.
And then, in the Matrix, someone will invent backscatter sanners. And then our virtual selves will also start sacrificing personal liberties for safety. And then *they'll* end up in the Matrix-Matrix
I agree with him too. But since he always get permission, there's never been a situation where he's had to test his theory that the law supports specifically what he does.
In other words, the fact that he's prudent, polite, and generally a nice guy all around makes the question of whether the law agrees with him moot.
Right, but your first example: "use Alicia Keys' music to satire Alicia Keys" counts as parody, legally speaking. Again, it's retarded. That's just how it currently is.
Although technically, Weird Al's songs fall under satire because (aside from the rare "smells like Nirvana"-style song) they aren't directly commenting on the material, but instead using it to comment on something else. Satire is a MUCH weaker argument for fair use than direct parody. So Al isn't just doing the smart thing from a business standpoint, but from an actual legal one as well.
Hey dawg I heard you like having Steve Jobs listen to Steve Jobs. So we put a Steve Jobs listening to Steve Jobs inside Steve Jobs listening to Steve Jobs, so you can listen to Steve Jobs listen to Steve Jobs, while Steve Jobs listens to Steve Jobs!
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I'm amused by the people pointing out that Robin Hood Airport is technically named after a terrorist.
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Enemy Brass: Okay, the plan is to infiltrate their base by dressing our soldiers in similar uniforms.
Enemy Lawyer: I'm afraid we can't do that. They have a patent on their uniform design.
Enemy Brass: Damn! Back to the drawing board then. Unless...perhaps we could license it for a couple days? What's the procedure for that?
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"your junk is secure, move along"
*real pilot refuses backscanner*
"excuse me sir, you're going to have to wait for verification..."
^^ yeah, thank god for security.
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The idea that future students would have no choice in the matter - indeed, that it would automatically be taken out of their expenses - sounds like a nightmare to me.
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Re: Obviously an A/B Test in the wild.
Keep in mind though, that it may not be a test per-se. You're right that this happens a lot in the market, but many times it happens with no clear goal attached to it. For example, if you reserve a rental car at Enterprise's website, the quoted price will ALWAYS be randomly selected from a narrow range of prices, no matter what time of the day/year/decade you do it.
Why this is I'll never know. Some businesses just like mixing it up I guess.
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In other words, the fact that he's prudent, polite, and generally a nice guy all around makes the question of whether the law agrees with him moot.
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It's stupid, but that's how it works.
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