Only the publisher that owns the copyright could do this, and most of the publishers of these books have vanished or lost the paperwork that proves owenership.
Actually read the law here and you will see that no lawsuit is necessary. Section C allow the copyright holder to stop any particular work from being displayed in this way by a simple notice.
For genuine orphan works there would be no-one to serve such a notice.
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Actually it is better named the Peter Pan copyright act.
This is because the whole business of the extra 20 years was provoked by the imminent expiry of the copyright on Peter Pan - which had been donated to Great Ormond St children's hospital. Of course what should have happened is that another public spirited author should have stepped up to replace Peter Pan with a new donation. Instead they (and more relevantly their publishers) greedily lobbied for an extension - which had the side effect on extending the lifetime of their own revenue streams.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How were the people down in that plaza made safer by being completely helpless?
Or him/her self or their brother/sister.
The point being this - a gun to be used for self defence has to be kept accessible, loaded and ready for use. A gun for sport can be kept in a locked cabinet, unloaded and with the ammunition in a separate secure location.
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Handguns are available for self protection in Seattle,
Of course this is the illusion that gun advocates live under, that your gun might somehow save your life.
It is a fantasy. In reality if you were in that situation the bad guy would be ready, prepared and hyped up. You would be off guard. Guess who would win.
Much more likely are
The bad guy kills you with your own gun.
You kill an innocent member of your own family by mistake (a la Oscar Pistorius).
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The fact is that no civilised state allows private ownership of arbitrary weapons. No US state would allow private ownership of tactical nuclear weapons or even large artillery pieces.
It follows that there can be no liberty issue in the principle of gun control. The second amendment is a red herring here. It should be simply a matter of setting in place rules that will minimise loss of life and serious injury while allowing reasonable use of guns for hunting, target shooting etc.
Unfortunately in the US it has become an emotional issue for the gun lobby - and emotion crowds out reason as the tone of the pro-gun comments here proves.
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People become mentally impaired with too much alcohol
The level of argument from the gun lobby is giving me the feeling that people become mentally impaired with too many guns.
I've looked around the raw statistics about these matters (as opposed to your biased sites) and it is quite clear to me that you are simply wrong here.
Japan has an exceedingly low murder rate. In fact if you google "Japan murder rate" you gey articles saying "why is Japan's murder rate so low?"
Murder rate in Japan (very strict gun laws) 0.31/100,000
Murder rate in the UK (strict gun laws) 0.92/100,000
Murder rate in the every single US state >1.0/100,000 almost every year.
Typical large US states have murder rates above 3.0/100,000
eg California 5.0, Texas 4.4, Illinois 5.8, New York 3.5.
So actualy your argument is not supported by the facts.
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Switzerland has their fucking act together and they don't have the anti-gun cowardly culture over there that we do.
Switzerland is better than the US for gun deaths - but that is not hard - even S. Africa is better than the US.
Switzerland is stil 10x worse than the UK.
Japan has more or less eliminated gun death by very strict gun laws.
I am perfectly well aaware that the actual system uses a symmetric cipher to encrypt the actual message, the public keys being used to encrypt the key for that cipher. However when this system is correctly deployed the effect is the same as encrypting the message itself using the public key cipher. If this were not the case then there would be no point in using the public key cipher at all.
Re: Re: Please Don’t Try Conflating Encryption With Guns
Encryption is both defensive and offensive, as are guns.
Guns are only defensive on the principle of attack being the best form of defence.
Bullet proof vests are a better analogy for encryption.
So what Amber Rudd is saying is that all bullet proof vests should be compromised in such a way that a certain type of gun is required to shoot you - and of course ONLY the police will have these guns.....
She should call Penn Jillette. Not because he has a solution to her problems - but because he is so brilliant at being sarcastically patronising - just what she needs!
Not exactly - for it to be genocide the major mechanism should be killing - if the major mechanism is expelling then ethnic cleansing is an appropriate term.
However everyone should be clear that the obective of the Rohinga militant groups who triggered all this is the expulsion of Buddhists, Hindus etc from Rakhine province and the establishment of an islamic state there (or incorporation into Bangladesh).
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Hitchen's Razor
Since this statement itself has been asserted without evidence. I propose to dismiss it in accordance with its own logic.
Hitchen's razor is in fact a logical paradox.
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Re: Re: So where's the problem?
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Re: Re:
For genuine orphan works there would be no-one to serve such a notice.
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Re: Don't forget that Sonny Bono was a scientologist…
Actually it is better named the Peter Pan copyright act.
This is because the whole business of the extra 20 years was provoked by the imminent expiry of the copyright on Peter Pan - which had been donated to Great Ormond St children's hospital. Of course what should have happened is that another public spirited author should have stepped up to replace Peter Pan with a new donation. Instead they (and more relevantly their publishers) greedily lobbied for an extension - which had the side effect on extending the lifetime of their own revenue streams.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Nice band-aids
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How were the people down in that plaza made safer by being completely helpless?
The point being this - a gun to be used for self defence has to be kept accessible, loaded and ready for use. A gun for sport can be kept in a locked cabinet, unloaded and with the ammunition in a separate secure location.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How were the people down in that plaza made safer by being completely helpless?
Handguns are available for self protection in Seattle,
Of course this is the illusion that gun advocates live under, that your gun might somehow save your life.
It is a fantasy. In reality if you were in that situation the bad guy would be ready, prepared and hyped up. You would be off guard. Guess who would win.
Much more likely are
The bad guy kills you with your own gun.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How were the people down in that plaza made safer by being completely helpless?
The fact is that no civilised state allows private ownership of arbitrary weapons. No US state would allow private ownership of tactical nuclear weapons or even large artillery pieces.
It follows that there can be no liberty issue in the principle of gun control. The second amendment is a red herring here. It should be simply a matter of setting in place rules that will minimise loss of life and serious injury while allowing reasonable use of guns for hunting, target shooting etc.
Unfortunately in the US it has become an emotional issue for the gun lobby - and emotion crowds out reason as the tone of the pro-gun comments here proves.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How were the people down in that plaza made safer by being completely helpless?
People become mentally impaired with too much alcohol
The level of argument from the gun lobby is giving me the feeling that people become mentally impaired with too many guns.
I've looked around the raw statistics about these matters (as opposed to your biased sites) and it is quite clear to me that you are simply wrong here.
Japan has an exceedingly low murder rate. In fact if you google "Japan murder rate" you gey articles saying "why is Japan's murder rate so low?"
Murder rate in Japan (very strict gun laws) 0.31/100,000 Murder rate in the UK (strict gun laws) 0.92/100,000 Murder rate in the every single US state >1.0/100,000 almost every year. Typical large US states have murder rates above 3.0/100,000 eg California 5.0, Texas 4.4, Illinois 5.8, New York 3.5.
So actualy your argument is not supported by the facts.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How were the people down in that plaza made safer by being completely helpless?
Switzerland has their fucking act together and they don't have the anti-gun cowardly culture over there that we do. Switzerland is better than the US for gun deaths - but that is not hard - even S. Africa is better than the US. Switzerland is stil 10x worse than the UK.
Japan has more or less eliminated gun death by very strict gun laws.
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Re: Re: Please Don’t Try Conflating Encryption With Guns
Encryption is both defensive and offensive, as are guns.
Guns are only defensive on the principle of attack being the best form of defence.
Bullet proof vests are a better analogy for encryption.
So what Amber Rudd is saying is that all bullet proof vests should be compromised in such a way that a certain type of gun is required to shoot you - and of course ONLY the police will have these guns.....
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Re:
who will automatically be sneered at and laughed at for not getting it right
Interesting that she admits that she is not going to get it right...
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Re: Only *millions*
After all Alpha Centauri is only inches away:
1,627,657,838,760,000,000 inches to be precise!
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Re: crypto fans are being disingenuous
you are trusting Apple to add only keys for the parties in the conversation. It would be easy for them to insert an additional key.
No -it is not easy it is impossible. There are only two keys in play here. You can't change that without changing the algorithm completely.
As things stand at present the key that is used to decrypt the data never leaves the device belonging to the recipient.
The key used to encrypt the data cannot be used to decrypt the data.
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women just can't understand this because its hard.
No - the evidence is that Amber Rudd doesn't understand this because of the things she says.
Trying to play the "sexist" card in this case is simply an Ad-hominem attack!
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The only thing left is MAGIC
She should call Penn Jillette. Not because he has a solution to her problems - but because he is so brilliant at being sarcastically patronising - just what she needs!
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Re: Call Harry Potter
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Re: Re: Ethnic cleansing
However everyone should be clear that the obective of the Rohinga militant groups who triggered all this is the expulsion of Buddhists, Hindus etc from Rakhine province and the establishment of an islamic state there (or incorporation into Bangladesh).
So either way it is a battle for survival.
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That's a bright-line difference right there. When they cross the line and begin attacking civilians, they're terrorists.
and on that basis the Rohinga ARE terrorists - see the evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g2DLk8sSdQ
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