"Content ID has claimed millions of videos and is responsible for over a billion dollars in revenue so copyright holders love it."
Well, judging by the amount of people who had their self-made videos, of which they are the copyright holders, taken down, because of baseless accusations and misbehaving robots, I very much doubt most copyright holders love it.
Re: IP is all the US has left, that is why it is so important
The only thing we have left is IP.
No, you've got even more IP Protection.
Just about all works of art produced until 1978 should be in the public domain, but aren't. So you're inflating the amount of works artificially with extending law.
And all software patents are actually illegally granted, because software is math. So you're also inflating the amount of patents by granting patents on math, obvious things and 4000 year old technology (slide to unlock..).
And judging by TPP, TTIP etc., your biggest export also seems to be protectionist laws.
Nice that protectionist interests regarding dairy products, pharmacies and trucks are thwarting other protectionist plans regarding copyrights and patents.
Re: Whatever else, Range had no clue about his job description
"represents an intolerable encroachment on the independence of the judiciary"
This, by the way, is the same Range that had no problem NOT investigating the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, the German equivalent of the CIA) for treason, even though there is pretty hard evidence the BND acted against Germany by colluding with the NSA. And the person who told him not to investigate was of course the very same Maas.
In that case it apparently wasn't "intolerable encroachment".
Comprehensive patents are taken out by some parties, for the purpose of stopping inventions, or appropriating the fruits of the inventions of others, &c. Such Consequences, more resembling the smuggling and fraud caused by an ill-advised tax than anything else, cause a strong suspicion. that the principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just.
Now, patent in software should be governed by same rules as patent on mechanical contraption.
Software is math. Mathematically provable. Mathematics are not patentable anywhere in the world. And the European Patent Treaty even explicitly rules out "software as such".
(1) The term of protection granted by this Convention shall be the life of the author and fifty years after his death.
With movies it's either publication or production +50 years:
(2) However, in the case of cinematographic works, the countries of the Union may provide that the term of protection shall expire fifty years after the work has been made available to the public with the consent of the author, or, failing such an event within fifty years from the making of such a work, fifty years after the making.
For photographs it's production+25 years.
(4) It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to determine the term of protection of photographic works and that of works of applied art in so far as they are protected as artistic works; however, this term shall last at least until the end of a period of twenty-five years from the making of such a work.
There's no "takedown upon notice" in there. Instead you have to have a judge order it. And it doesn't cover library catalogs or other "search engines" that only tell you where a work can be found.
Ironic. It was translated to latin, so the less-educated people, that did not understand greek (greek being the language of the upper class and the philosophers in ancient rome), could read it.
In that case, they've never served the side of the just.
They might have served "the side of the concerned", or "the side of the nylon industry which wanted to kill the hemp industry" or "the side of the prohibitionists".
But the DEA never had anything to do with "justice".
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Re:
Well, judging by the amount of people who had their self-made videos, of which they are the copyright holders, taken down, because of baseless accusations and misbehaving robots, I very much doubt most copyright holders love it.
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It's called "mercantilism".
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Re: IP is all the US has left, that is why it is so important
No, you've got even more IP Protection.
Just about all works of art produced until 1978 should be in the public domain, but aren't. So you're inflating the amount of works artificially with extending law.
And all software patents are actually illegally granted, because software is math. So you're also inflating the amount of patents by granting patents on math, obvious things and 4000 year old technology (slide to unlock..).
And judging by TPP, TTIP etc., your biggest export also seems to be protectionist laws.
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Re: Not Fair.
They could just refrain from promoting their obnoxious mercantilist agenda; that way no leaks could do any harm!
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Re: Re:
For music. For some music. Actually, not for most of what I want to listen to. And not in Europe either.
But certainly not for books and movies. Overpriced, country-blocked, crippled with DRM and usually not available.
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Re: Re:
This mainly shows who paid the politicians in the USA.
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Re: Whatever else, Range had no clue about his job description
This, by the way, is the same Range that had no problem NOT investigating the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, the German equivalent of the CIA) for treason, even though there is pretty hard evidence the BND acted against Germany by colluding with the NSA. And the person who told him not to investigate was of course the very same Maas.
In that case it apparently wasn't "intolerable encroachment".
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White Hats
That's the definition. I don't think the FBI has (or allows) any of those.
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Comprehensive patents are taken out by some parties, for the purpose of stopping inventions, or appropriating the fruits of the inventions of others, &c. Such Consequences, more resembling the smuggling and fraud caused by an ill-advised tax than anything else, cause a strong suspicion. that the principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just.
Already known in 1851.
https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/voices-against-the-patent-system-the-economist-1851/
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Re: NZ have no software industry anyway
Software is math. Mathematically provable. Mathematics are not patentable anywhere in the world. And the European Patent Treaty even explicitly rules out "software as such".
Just because some patent-offices blatantly ignore this with their Moby Dick Support Device logic doesn't make them any more legal. https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/the-moby-dick-support-device/
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Re: Re:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain
Same as the other fascism, but catholic.
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"I'm sure they were doing their best that they could, but it just wasn't enough it wasn't enough," [sorority alumus Cassandra] Tomes said.
Is giving the TSA any credit. It's "they're totally incompetent idiots" said nicely.
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Re:
Like this software here https://github.com/GeminiCode/EncoreEnRetard about alerts in the french train networks.
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(1) The term of protection granted by this Convention shall be the life of the author and fifty years after his death.
With movies it's either publication or production +50 years:
(2) However, in the case of cinematographic works, the countries of the Union may provide that the term of protection shall expire fifty years after the work has been made available to the public with the consent of the author, or, failing such an event within fifty years from the making of such a work, fifty years after the making.
For photographs it's production+25 years.
(4) It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to determine the term of protection of photographic works and that of works of applied art in so far as they are protected as artistic works; however, this term shall last at least until the end of a period of twenty-five years from the making of such a work.
There's no "takedown upon notice" in there. Instead you have to have a judge order it. And it doesn't cover library catalogs or other "search engines" that only tell you where a work can be found.
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Re: I don't think Malamud is going about this right
I don't think so. Not because it's a derivative work on a public domain one, but because it fails something else:
originality.
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Re: To all the Ayn Rand haters out there ...
Compared to what the Economist wrote 1851, and my stance today, she's a radical monopoly apologist.
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Ah, no. Actually, the majority of all drug related deaths and injuries are caused by "drug enforcement". And always have been.
Because most of the "drug-related" problems, from homelessness over weird diseases to armed robberies, ARE A RESULT OF THE PROHIBITION.
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Re: Truth vs Lies
They might have served "the side of the concerned", or "the side of the nylon industry which wanted to kill the hemp industry" or "the side of the prohibitionists".
But the DEA never had anything to do with "justice".
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