How much do you want to bet that the government will claim that releasing this information harms prosecutors' efforts to try terrorists in the courts. LOLS
I think Mike's article is wrong because if the courts rule for GoldieBlox that using music is 'fair use' then it would be open season for any business, retailer, advertiser, movie studio or television studio to use copyrighted music without having to license it.
I'm shocked that neither the RIAA nor the MPAA have filed amicus briefs with the court opposing the GoldieBlox motion.
I blame these idiot drivers for not realizing that something was fishy about this since they were being offered money to provide samples of their saliva or blood.
These idiot drivers were stupid in the first place for not exercising their rights and refusing to participate.
Want to know why I blame these idiot drivers for this? Because law enforcement NEVER offers money to you to provide any kind of samples.
THEY GET A COURT ORDER, VIA A WARRANT, FOR YOU TO PROVIDE THAT SAMPLE. THEY DO NOT OFFER YOU MONEY TO DO SO.
I just don't see GoldieBlox winning this one. CFrom the way I understand it, what GoldieBlox did with The Beastie Boys music cannot be claimed as "Fair Use" since they used the music to advertise their own product.
It's like if you took someone's song and used it in your advertisement. You simply cannot claim "Fair Use" if you use someone else's copyrighted material to sell your product.
Common forms of Fair Use:
Criticism and comment -- for example, quoting or excerpting a work in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment.
News reporting -- for example, summarizing an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report.
Research and scholarship -- for example, quoting a short passage in a scholarly, scientific, or technical work for illustration or clarification of the author's observations.
Nonprofit educational uses -- for example, photocopying of limited portions of written works by teachers for classroom use.
Parody -- that is, a work that ridicules another, usually well-known, work by imitating it in a comic way.
I agree with the court in the damages that were awarded. Personally, I think Mike has it wrong in that he finds the awarded $1.2 million to be out of whack. The court has definitely sent a message to commercial entities that stealing images that were obviously created by the original photographer, and then turning around and suing that photographer after they credited a different person for that image, is exactly the response that the courts should have sent.
When we're constantly seeing entertainment companies suing filesharing for downloading a long and ending up with such disastrous judgments ($220,000, $1.2 million and so on) ... this definitely sends a message to these commercial companies that they are also liable for stealing the intellectual property rights of individual citizens.
The jury got it right and they sent AFP and Getty a message.
The NSA, The Department of Justice is working contrary to the interests of the American People.
Remind again why the NSA and the DoJ thinks that their opinion is more important than the rights of the American People? I thought it's the role of the government to look after our interests. It's not the job of government to take it upon themselves to ignore court orders, to spy on the American People and to violate our constitutional rights.
I think that this country is heading toward a time when the people are going to say "enough is enough" and simply overthrow the idiots who are giving our country a black eye.
I would like to know just how exactly did these boobs get jobs without the Federal government. Let's see. The NSA violates our privacy by collecting the data on every American. That, in itself, is a violation of our privacy.
Now, the government is saying that handing the control over to private companies to act as watchdogs would violate our privacy and that we're safer with the government in control?
If THAT isn't an oxymoron, then I don't know what is. But, then again, the morons in charge are oxyMORONS.
Somebody needs to tell the geniuses in the intelligence community that if someone removes the battery from their cell phone, there is no way, in Hell, that government intelligence agencies can turn your phone back on, through malware or otherwise.
Upon checking out Techdirt this morning, I don't usually laugh at the absurdity of the articles posted on here and while I'm a very verbal person, when I read THIS article, I laughed so hard, I fell out of my chair, hard heart palpitations and Jesus fell from my roof because HE also found it hilarious.
Jesus told me that the lawyer was an idiot and that Justice was such a moron that he makes Prenda Law look like angels.
This comment may sound callous and hateful, but the TSA is bringing this all on itself with citizens in this country target and kill one of their own agents. I'm appalled at the taking of ANY life, but we're definitely going to see more TSA agents getting killed because of the way they treat Americans in this country.
This latest incident regarding this 3 year old, who happens to also be a disabled child, defies logic. If you ask me, TSA agents lack empathy, lack common decency and think they can get away with mistreating American citizens.
I hope that the TSA ends this mistreatment of passengers but this is exactly what congress intended when they created these Rent-A-Cop, err, Rent-A-Nazis.
I'm wanting to know when the Justice Department is going to investigate the TSA for its violations of the "Americans With Disabilities Act". After all, this is a prime example of a violation of this three year old's civil rights.
I think the judge was deliberately misled by Prenda as they have the tendency to misled the court by being deliberately vague in their answers and not showing up or taking a constitutional stand to not answer questions.
I'd like to know when Prenda is going to realize that the boat they are on, in the middle of the Arctic, is going up in flames, there are no lifeboats and nobody is going to rescue them.
Prenda Law is delaying the inevitable. But, the courts need to ensure that all of these fines, judgements and orders by the court need to follow the individual attorneys and not just the entity of "Prenda Law".
It's one thing to get a search warrant but to charge a suspect for a medical procedure that the police department implemented? That's like a gas station filling up your gas tank without your permission and then expecting you to pay for the gas.
Oh, there is definitely going to be a major lawsuit filed over this oone and I suspect that he's also going to sue the hospital for daring to charge him for a medical procedure that he didn't even agree to.
The NSA feels like a black hole. The cosmic phenomenon that swallows up everything in sight, with no regard for what it is. Congress allowed this to get out of control and the minute they got a taste for this power,they will never relinquish it.
I find it blatantly absurd that the government, let alone, the NSA, would compare any program to "Stop and Frisk", which has been shown to racially profile Americans simply based on their race or skin color.
Does this mean that the NSA frequently 'targets' or 'racially profiles' Americans when they conduct their 'metadata searches'?
The Patriot Act, the NDAA, Secret Courts ... the people didn't want this, it was the Democrats and the Republicans who wanted these laws so they could stop anybody from speaking out against them or their re-election campaigns.
Have you noticed that FISA warrants have been consistently used to target journalists, whistleblowers and anyone who proves to be a threat to their precious intelligence programs.
I find it odd that people who aren't very intelligent are in charge of the very same intelligence programs that intrude on our private lives. Guess there really is no intelligence in the intelligence agencies.
Compares Metadata to Stop and Frisk? Does the NSA official realize that Stop and Frisk has been declared unconstitutional? I guess that means that metadata searches are also unconstitutional.
First time that the NSA has admitted that Metadata searches are unconstitutional.
Now, ain't that a wrinkle in the NSA's plans to expand the program?
Does the government even listen to how ridiculous their argument sounds? How did we ever survive for more than 250 years as a nation because we sure as hell have never spied on every American, not until recently.
Curbing metadata collection will violate our privacy? Does the government realize how ridiculous that comment sounds? It's the collection of that metadata that actually violates our privacy, not the reverse.
How did these boobs ever come into control of our country ... they are all morons if they expect us to believe that argument.
The state department won't condemn the U.K. because that's what the Obama Administration has been doing/trying to do to journalists. After all, they're already doing that whistleblowers.
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Fly With Us: We'll Kill Your Beloved Family Pet For Free
On the post: Judge Halts Sentencing After Feds Admit They Failed To Reveal Use Of NSA Data
And, back to military court tribunals we go.
On the post: Beastie Boys Say They Don't Want Music In Ads, But Fair Use Doesn't Care
I'm shocked that neither the RIAA nor the MPAA have filed amicus briefs with the court opposing the GoldieBlox motion.
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I blame these idiot drivers for not realizing that something was fishy about this since they were being offered money to provide samples of their saliva or blood.
These idiot drivers were stupid in the first place for not exercising their rights and refusing to participate.
Want to know why I blame these idiot drivers for this? Because law enforcement NEVER offers money to you to provide any kind of samples.
THEY GET A COURT ORDER, VIA A WARRANT, FOR YOU TO PROVIDE THAT SAMPLE. THEY DO NOT OFFER YOU MONEY TO DO SO.
On the post: Beastie Boys Say They Don't Want Music In Ads, But Fair Use Doesn't Care
It's like if you took someone's song and used it in your advertisement. You simply cannot claim "Fair Use" if you use someone else's copyrighted material to sell your product.
Common forms of Fair Use:
Criticism and comment -- for example, quoting or excerpting a work in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment.
News reporting -- for example, summarizing an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report.
Research and scholarship -- for example, quoting a short passage in a scholarly, scientific, or technical work for illustration or clarification of the author's observations.
Nonprofit educational uses -- for example, photocopying of limited portions of written works by teachers for classroom use.
Parody -- that is, a work that ridicules another, usually well-known, work by imitating it in a comic way.
On the post: Statutory Damages Strike Again: AFP & Getty Told To Pay $1.2 Million For Using Photo Found Via Twitter
When we're constantly seeing entertainment companies suing filesharing for downloading a long and ending up with such disastrous judgments ($220,000, $1.2 million and so on) ... this definitely sends a message to these commercial companies that they are also liable for stealing the intellectual property rights of individual citizens.
The jury got it right and they sent AFP and Getty a message.
On the post: Feds: Even Though We've Been Ordered To Reveal Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act, We're Not Going To Do That
Remind again why the NSA and the DoJ thinks that their opinion is more important than the rights of the American People? I thought it's the role of the government to look after our interests. It's not the job of government to take it upon themselves to ignore court orders, to spy on the American People and to violate our constitutional rights.
I think that this country is heading toward a time when the people are going to say "enough is enough" and simply overthrow the idiots who are giving our country a black eye.
On the post: Intelligence Lawyer Robert Litt Claims Searching For Possible Privacy Violations Will Violate Privacy
Now, the government is saying that handing the control over to private companies to act as watchdogs would violate our privacy and that we're safer with the government in control?
If THAT isn't an oxymoron, then I don't know what is. But, then again, the morons in charge are oxyMORONS.
On the post: Cell Phone Manufacturers Offer Carefully Worded Denials To Question Of Whether NSA Can Track Powered-Down Cell Phones
"Hey, Beavis."
"Heh, heh. What's up, Butthead."
"Mobile Phones can be tracked without a battery."
"Now why didn't Bill gates think of that?"
LOLS
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Jesus told me that the lawyer was an idiot and that Justice was such a moron that he makes Prenda Law look like angels.
On the post: TSA Security Theater Makes Unwilling Co-Star Out Of 3-Year-Old With Rare Medical Condition
This latest incident regarding this 3 year old, who happens to also be a disabled child, defies logic. If you ask me, TSA agents lack empathy, lack common decency and think they can get away with mistreating American citizens.
I hope that the TSA ends this mistreatment of passengers but this is exactly what congress intended when they created these Rent-A-Cop, err, Rent-A-Nazis.
I'm wanting to know when the Justice Department is going to investigate the TSA for its violations of the "Americans With Disabilities Act". After all, this is a prime example of a violation of this three year old's civil rights.
On the post: Prenda Loses Big Again; Court Orders It To Pay Back Settlement Money, Refers To Law Enforcement
I'd like to know when Prenda is going to realize that the boat they are on, in the middle of the Arctic, is going up in flames, there are no lifeboats and nobody is going to rescue them.
Prenda Law is delaying the inevitable. But, the courts need to ensure that all of these fines, judgements and orders by the court need to follow the individual attorneys and not just the entity of "Prenda Law".
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Oh, there is definitely going to be a major lawsuit filed over this oone and I suspect that he's also going to sue the hospital for daring to charge him for a medical procedure that he didn't even agree to.
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On the post: NSA Official Positively Compares Metadata Searches To Stop And Frisk
Does this mean that the NSA frequently 'targets' or 'racially profiles' Americans when they conduct their 'metadata searches'?
On the post: Intelligence Community Lawyers Argue That Curbing Metadata Collections Will Damage Americans' Privacy
Have you noticed that FISA warrants have been consistently used to target journalists, whistleblowers and anyone who proves to be a threat to their precious intelligence programs.
I find it odd that people who aren't very intelligent are in charge of the very same intelligence programs that intrude on our private lives. Guess there really is no intelligence in the intelligence agencies.
On the post: NSA Official Positively Compares Metadata Searches To Stop And Frisk
First time that the NSA has admitted that Metadata searches are unconstitutional.
Now, ain't that a wrinkle in the NSA's plans to expand the program?
On the post: Intelligence Community Lawyers Argue That Curbing Metadata Collections Will Damage Americans' Privacy
Curbing metadata collection will violate our privacy? Does the government realize how ridiculous that comment sounds? It's the collection of that metadata that actually violates our privacy, not the reverse.
How did these boobs ever come into control of our country ... they are all morons if they expect us to believe that argument.
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