What is really frustrating about all this is that I have yet to receive any notification from Linkedin that there was a data breech. As a user, I would like the comfort of hearing it from them directly.
Are you saying that the Great Depression Depression and The Two World Wars had a lasting effect on literature to the tune of 70 years? From 1920 to 1990 there is a gigantic hole in works from those eras being published today. Yet there is a plethora of works from prior to the 20s being published.
Sure there is some merit to looking at the actual content from those eras but it is hard to consider that 70 years of content is just not worth the trouble of printing.
I think you don't understand what that chart is portraying.
The chart is the number of new editions of books on the shelf TODAY, from those various decades. So books that are in the public domain are all over the place, while the oldest copyright covered books are not found very often.
Meaning, there are more companies reprinting books from 1910 decade today than there are companies printing books from 1920 decade.
"Can you imagine how poor as a people we would be if everything we got now was just a reprint of a 30 year old book?"
Can you imagine how rich we would be if anyone could expand on works created 30 years ago? Imagine all the movies, other books, comics, game etc that people could make using those properties if they didn't have to seek permission and pay exorbitant licensing fees.
Not sure what you might find. However, one thing to remember is that Disney does the whole vault thing to convince the public that there is value in buying a film again. They don't even do it with all their movies, just the ones that have high marketability. If you look, you will find movies like Fox and the Hound and Robin Hood and a few others always on the shelf, but the Disney Princess line of films are the most often targeted for vaulting.
I am not sure how to interpret this line. Very odd.
Pointing at something and calling it "culture" doesn't make it so. I cannot see how, as a people, we are advanced enough by someones reedit of a lucas film as to merit tossing copyright out of the window to permit it.
You are right. However, the oposite can also be true. "Pointing at something and saying it is not culture doesn't make it so."
The problem is that you do not have a clue what culture is. Culture is the collective rise of art, intellect, speech etc. Star Wars is part of modern culture regardless of what you or George Lucas want people to believe. If you have ever seen a staged lightsabre dual video or a bounty hunter cosplay, you would know this. Creating fan edits and mashups of cultural works is part of the spread of such culture.
By placing such long and lopsided copyrights on culture, it is like trying to build a dam after a flood.
We are often asked by certain ACs here (who knows, it might actually be used) that if the lengths of copyright were the problem, why is it only new works that get pirated. The answer is that the new works are part of the internet age's collective culture. The older works that should be in the public domain if not for term extensions are not part of the internet age's collective culture.
Those people were robbed of their culture. They wer denied the right to promulgate and expand on their culture. The current internet age will not stand by and let that happen.
Does this suck for dinosaurs that do not get it and want to fight it? Sure. But they will come to terms with it and take advantage of it, or else they will die off and be replaced by those that do.
When network television goes away, people will watch only the shows they want to watch.
For instance, I watch a lot of great stuff on Netflix. Granted a lot of it is stuff that is no longer on air. I also enjoy things on Hulu that are currently on air.
That said, I am finding a lot more enjoyment with niche shows found only online. Things like the Daly Show starring Tim and Sam Daly. There is also the Red Green Show that has taken on new life since discovering the Internet.
Of course, that is just what I watch in between playing video games. I spend more of my entertainment time playing games than watching any kind of tv or movies.
The point is, there will always be entertainment even without broadcasters, labels and giant movies studios.
A la carte content is alive and well thanks to the Internet. I watch just the shows I want and none of the crap tags along with it. The internet is the only way to succeed in niche programming any more.
Yeah. How dare Led Zepplin become rich and famous! They should be sued out of existence. Don't get me started on Bob Dylan. Oh and that Justin Beiber kid should be thrown in jail too.
And these modern movie companies. Man. Why can't they create their own stories rather than stealing the hard work from writers and other creators?
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What is really sad here is that you do not recognize true fair use.
I have recently recorded a dance recital that my daughter was in. I want to upload it to Youtube but don't really feel like dealing with the fact that it will be targeted by either a takedown notice or ads placed over it. Why will one of these two events happen? Because there is some RIAA represented label's music in it.
I just want to share my daughter's recital with family members, but the RIAA thinks I am a dirty rotten pirate for using their music without authorization.
True, it probably is not 25%. However, there is a sizable above 1% Linux gaming community that should not be ignored.
As for Wine, I have my issues with it and don't particularly like using it. But for the small selection of games I have that I still play through it, it is good enough. There are just not enough new games to make me feel the need to go back to Windows.
I don't see what the Citizens United case has to do with this. The Citizens United case stated that people pooling resources to create political speech cannot be censored because it violates their First Amendment right to speak freely.
Perhaps the reason Alec Guiness has never been paid is because he never starred i the movie. Last I heard, Hayden Christiansen was the revealed face of Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi and always has been.
I have bought nearly every Humble Bundle and have about a 75% success rate for installation and playing. There have been a few games that took some external tweeks to get running or to even install, but for the most part it has been double click, install.
Some of my favorites so far:
Aquaria, World of Goo, Machinarium, Trine (which actually took a few tweeks), and with this bundle, it looks to be Bastion.
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Sure there is some merit to looking at the actual content from those eras but it is hard to consider that 70 years of content is just not worth the trouble of printing.
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The chart is the number of new editions of books on the shelf TODAY, from those various decades. So books that are in the public domain are all over the place, while the oldest copyright covered books are not found very often.
Meaning, there are more companies reprinting books from 1910 decade today than there are companies printing books from 1920 decade.
"Can you imagine how poor as a people we would be if everything we got now was just a reprint of a 30 year old book?"
Can you imagine how rich we would be if anyone could expand on works created 30 years ago? Imagine all the movies, other books, comics, game etc that people could make using those properties if they didn't have to seek permission and pay exorbitant licensing fees.
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I am not sure how to interpret this line. Very odd.
Pointing at something and calling it "culture" doesn't make it so. I cannot see how, as a people, we are advanced enough by someones reedit of a lucas film as to merit tossing copyright out of the window to permit it.
You are right. However, the oposite can also be true. "Pointing at something and saying it is not culture doesn't make it so."
The problem is that you do not have a clue what culture is. Culture is the collective rise of art, intellect, speech etc. Star Wars is part of modern culture regardless of what you or George Lucas want people to believe. If you have ever seen a staged lightsabre dual video or a bounty hunter cosplay, you would know this. Creating fan edits and mashups of cultural works is part of the spread of such culture.
By placing such long and lopsided copyrights on culture, it is like trying to build a dam after a flood.
We are often asked by certain ACs here (who knows, it might actually be used) that if the lengths of copyright were the problem, why is it only new works that get pirated. The answer is that the new works are part of the internet age's collective culture. The older works that should be in the public domain if not for term extensions are not part of the internet age's collective culture.
Those people were robbed of their culture. They wer denied the right to promulgate and expand on their culture. The current internet age will not stand by and let that happen.
Does this suck for dinosaurs that do not get it and want to fight it? Sure. But they will come to terms with it and take advantage of it, or else they will die off and be replaced by those that do.
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For instance, I watch a lot of great stuff on Netflix. Granted a lot of it is stuff that is no longer on air. I also enjoy things on Hulu that are currently on air.
That said, I am finding a lot more enjoyment with niche shows found only online. Things like the Daly Show starring Tim and Sam Daly. There is also the Red Green Show that has taken on new life since discovering the Internet.
Of course, that is just what I watch in between playing video games. I spend more of my entertainment time playing games than watching any kind of tv or movies.
The point is, there will always be entertainment even without broadcasters, labels and giant movies studios.
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And these modern movie companies. Man. Why can't they create their own stories rather than stealing the hard work from writers and other creators?
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I have recently recorded a dance recital that my daughter was in. I want to upload it to Youtube but don't really feel like dealing with the fact that it will be targeted by either a takedown notice or ads placed over it. Why will one of these two events happen? Because there is some RIAA represented label's music in it.
I just want to share my daughter's recital with family members, but the RIAA thinks I am a dirty rotten pirate for using their music without authorization.
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As for Wine, I have my issues with it and don't particularly like using it. But for the small selection of games I have that I still play through it, it is good enough. There are just not enough new games to make me feel the need to go back to Windows.
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Some of my favorites so far:
Aquaria, World of Goo, Machinarium, Trine (which actually took a few tweeks), and with this bundle, it looks to be Bastion.
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