ESA Litigation Manager Kenneth:
"Hey Jerry, did we send those Takedown's out to the Pirate Bay last week like I asked?"
ESA legal staff member Jerry:
"Umm...Yes Sir."
ESA Litigation Manager Kenneth:
"Well...What happened?"
ESA legal staff member Jerry:
"Well...Umm...They posted our letter on their website and pointed out that their servers don't hold any of our stuff and we can't enforce U.S copyright law in Sweeden anyway. And...well...ummm..."
ESA Litigation Manager Kenneth:
"Spit it out Jerry!"
ESA legal staff member Jerry:
"And they suggested we go do something...umm...un-natural with 'retractable batons'!"
Working only from memory and armed with color-coded 3 inch wide rolls of Olympic Symbol tape, the competitors race into the stands and tape off branding logos being worn by the spectators. Scoring is a complex task taking into account "Time", "Total Items Covered", "Mistakes Made", "Area of the Polygon in the Stands Searched" and my personal favorite, special bonus points for locating and taping over the mouths and noses of any intellectual property attorneys in the stands.
I can give away my own music, but someone else can't give it away by streaming it?
Here's an idea for a lawsuit foundation case:
Set up a streaming channel that just loops a single track of very bad (or good if you have it in you) music that you compose and record about the extortion racket that SoundExchange truly is and how you the artist specifically denies SoundEx the right to represent this performance in any manner. The verbal content of the song is a legal notice of rights restriction.
When SoundExchange comes to enforce the compulsory license collection, tell them to pound sand and copy the EFF.
Years ago...as many of you may recall, Apple had given one of their products in development the internal code name of "Sagan" in honor of the famous "Billions and billions" effusing astronomer Carl Sagan. This code name leaked to the press and Sagan's lawyers objected to use of the name.
Apple promptly complied and changed the code name to "BHA", an acronym for "Butt-Head Astronomer".
Since the work in question is a work of fiction, the author is free to make up his own lyrics and I would like to suggest a fictional central theme right now for these substitute lyrics:
Greasy copyright lawyers and their unnatural fondness for torturing helpless, caged puppies and kittens with caustic chemicals and electric cattle prods.
Perfect young adult reading fare, in my humble opinion.
...the term "Digital Drugs", I thought someone had introduced some erratic behaviour code attached to small round digital goods objects (pills) into one of those MMORPG virtual world games.
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I can see it now....
Budget Chinese factory curns out millions with bad Lithium Polymer batteries or bad charging chips.
Cheap Kindles everywhere burst into flames, on camera.
Everyone starts calling them "Kindling".
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Re: DMCA Abuse?
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In Space...
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I'm actually looking forward to this!
ESA Litigation Manager Kenneth:
"Hey Jerry, did we send those Takedown's out to the Pirate Bay last week like I asked?"
ESA legal staff member Jerry:
"Umm...Yes Sir."
ESA Litigation Manager Kenneth:
"Well...What happened?"
ESA legal staff member Jerry:
"Well...Umm...They posted our letter on their website and pointed out that their servers don't hold any of our stuff and we can't enforce U.S copyright law in Sweeden anyway. And...well...ummm..."
ESA Litigation Manager Kenneth:
"Spit it out Jerry!"
ESA legal staff member Jerry:
"And they suggested we go do something...umm...un-natural with 'retractable batons'!"
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New Olympic Sport
Working only from memory and armed with color-coded 3 inch wide rolls of Olympic Symbol tape, the competitors race into the stands and tape off branding logos being worn by the spectators. Scoring is a complex task taking into account "Time", "Total Items Covered", "Mistakes Made", "Area of the Polygon in the Stands Searched" and my personal favorite, special bonus points for locating and taping over the mouths and noses of any intellectual property attorneys in the stands.
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Hoist them with thier own petard.
Here's an idea for a lawsuit foundation case:
Set up a streaming channel that just loops a single track of very bad (or good if you have it in you) music that you compose and record about the extortion racket that SoundExchange truly is and how you the artist specifically denies SoundEx the right to represent this performance in any manner. The verbal content of the song is a legal notice of rights restriction.
When SoundExchange comes to enforce the compulsory license collection, tell them to pound sand and copy the EFF.
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The real problem is the compulsory rate.
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Hmmmm...Arts Being Supported by Patrons.
Hey, didn't that model work for Mozart, DaVinci and pretty much every famous artist I can think of prior to the emergence of Record Companies?
Everything old is new again.
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Re: Re: Re: I'd pull an Apple job here.
Oooops. Gotta throw it back.
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I'd pull an Apple job here.
Apple promptly complied and changed the code name to "BHA", an acronym for "Butt-Head Astronomer".
Since the work in question is a work of fiction, the author is free to make up his own lyrics and I would like to suggest a fictional central theme right now for these substitute lyrics:
Greasy copyright lawyers and their unnatural fondness for torturing helpless, caged puppies and kittens with caustic chemicals and electric cattle prods.
Perfect young adult reading fare, in my humble opinion.
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Re: Sheeple...
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Re:
Unfortunately, after attempting to read the rest of your sentence, I would argue to the contrary.
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When I saw...
NOW THAT WOULD BE A GREAT TECHNO-PANIC!
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Re: Status Symbol
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Obligitory Maxwell Smart...
No?
Well then would you believe a $23 computer and a free Chihuahua for tech support?
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Think of the Children!
Makes sense to me.
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Ahh Mike....
Seriously. We all want to know.
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The Authors won't comment because...
If they had to respond, their bias' would quickly be exposed.
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You know...
These days, my jaw just drops most of the time.
Being stunned, I can seldom manage a timely, "Right on!" anymore.
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Can anyone explain to me clearly why...
Is not The Copyright Act of 1976 an act of overt tyranny by forcing copyright upon creators?? Why do creators not have a choice?
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