The precedent already exists. That's why you can't start a restaurant named McDonald's, a movie studio named Disney, or a band named The Beatles. Why are so many people struggling with this concept?
So according to you, I could make a copy of Fantasia, change the order of the scenes, flip the frame 180 degrees and maybe change the color balance, and that's a different expression with no violation.
Regulation is what enables us to trust that the food we buy isn't diseased. Regulation is what enables us to trust that the water we drink and the air we breathe aren't full of poison. Regulation is what keeps children in school instead of laboring in factories. Regulation is what enables us to trust that the vehicles we use to get from place to place are safe. There isn't a single evil that corporations would not gladly inflict on the populace without regulations to prevent them.
Is this an add-on? It sounds good but I couldn't find it searching with duckduck. I use FlashBlock but it's not 100% effective; sometimes things slip through.
Smith! 6079 Smith! Yes you! Why aren't you highlighting more passages? You can take more notes than that comrade! Let's get our engagement score higher! Just think of the boys at the Malobar front! And the sailors in the floating fortresses!
He found a variety of other negative reviews... but also a large number of reviews that had significant circumstantial evidence that the company was likely posting fake positive reviews (or had hired a company to do so).
But here at TD we already know that fake online reviews are a Non-Story. Someone should politely inform Phil Buckley of this fact.
If it were only a problem of fake reviews, then I might agree with you. The real problem isn't the value of the reviews themselves, but the ratings attached to them and how Amazon uses those ratings to push content at its customers. I don't know Amazon's sooper-secret algorithm, of course, but as I understand it, the more stars a title has, the more pairs of eyes it gets floated in front of. More visibility means more potential buyers. In short, Amazon ratings translate to sales. Were this not the case, it would not have been possible to make money selling them. Can you not agree that clandestinely puffing up one's own book's ratings at the expense of other writers' sales is, at the very least, a practice that ought to be discouraged? Can you not agree that seeking to harm the sales of another writer by whatever means is, at the very least, an action worthy of comment?
I'm pretty sure it's a reference to the 'Cape Fear' episode of The Simpsons in which Sideshow Bob explains to the parole board that his tattoo reading "Die Bart Die" is German for "the Bart, the".
What if, for the sake of argument, I want to enjoy the blandest chocolate on the planet, yet inexplicably don't want to unwittingly ingest an electronic tracking device. I guess I'm SOL?
The seventh edition of Grimms' fairy tales, source of Snow White, was published in 1857. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published in 1865. Collodi's Pinocchio was published in 1883. Kipling's The Jungle Book was published in 1894. If these works had been subject to Disney's hypocritical 100 year copyright prison, Disney would have had to pay for the privilege of making its feature films based on them, to say nothing of the corresponding merchandising. One wonders whether Snow White or Pinocchio would have been made at all. These are the works on which Disney built its empire, and it was able to use them because they were not subject to preposterous copyright claims. Under the terms that were in effect when Disney's version of Snow White was made, the film, its score, and all the characters and visuals associated with it, ought to have entered public domain DECADES ago. This is the point. Disney drinks deep from the well of public domain but contrives to prevent that well ever from being replenished.
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