The basketball world can only be thankful that Jeremy Lin has finally received his shot at the big time. It does make you wonder how someone so talented so early on can be ignored by those who should be promoting their futures?
Well yes trademark and patents are well known to be subject to grabs and trolling. Even YouTube media is subject to vast wrong owner grabs either to censor them or to suck up the advertising revenue.
In a world where a modern smartphone can involve 70,000 patents then you can wonder how the hell anything can move even if one of those patent owners wants paying or causes problems. Then of course your rival can use their own patent war-pack to ban your sales in multiple countries.
Does this situation really help technology development and progress? How can the little guys get into this market when all who came before have already locked up those 70,000 patents?
Since this raid came about I have been wondering if these sites complied with the European version of DMCA law? It then does not matter if you host infringing files as long as you correctly respond to take-down requests when received.
We should keep in mind the site owner uploading music himself would invalid any protection he had. Only users can upload infringing music and usually get away with it.
Then I also ponder just how much lawfully supplied music was involved here? Yes an artist leaking a few songs can indeed ramp up a fan base prior to an album release. Fame counts for everything in the entertainment world where locking up your creation for few to see is contradictory.
Once the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act has been repealed, dropping the copyright term by 20 years down to life plus 50 years, then we can do no more in Congress.
Copyright then is set in International agreements meaning we need many countries to agree to then reduce the copyright term further.
Not to forget to map out clear Public Domain rules at the same time.
Sweet but that is best left for malicious abuse. Between the two can be a whole lost of large fines. Forcing media into the public domain should remain a Judge's option should other options fail.
I would not say there is no money in repealing laws.
The whole SOPA, PIPA and ACTA situation shows that not only is their millions of voters involved but the Tech companies have a large interest in protecting the Internet.
Then on an International level many companies already abused by copyright enforcement would love to see us take on Hollywood directly and to neuter this copyright abuse.
I would more call this both adding new laws and to repeal old laws at the same time.
It seems that RedBox do not rent software where they instead put people in touch so one can rent to another. I would suspect that home users are excluded but we can read the law to find that out.
Well I would give them 3 and 7. I could well allow them 1, 2 and 4, but 11 and 14 needs reform, while 6, 10, 12 and 15 should be killed with extreme prejudice. The rest should be repealed more gently.
I believe you can see their greed in this when most of them is all about increasing fines. This has now led to the crazy non-commercial court cases that have yet to resolve a fine due to the loss of touch with reality.
Beyond those changes we also need a new non-commercial law to allow for easy resolve and fine in Civil court with the aim of control.
This is the best we can achieve without reforming Copyright on an international agreement.
Content shifting is a modern past time now we have many more devices than just the TV to watch media on.
It may have been nice to stick a DVD in my MP4 player but the massive flaws here is that my MP4 has no DVD slot and the actually DVD is bigger than the MP4 player.
This is not to forget that all my DVDs have every trace of the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) scrubbed clean including their ghastly anti-piracy video which meant burning a nice copy with their video removed. Although these days I will add the Copying is not Stealing video instead.
I tend to more buy imports to save the hassle.
As to FACT's "You wouldn't steal a car" then yes FACT I have now download an actual car from the Internet. Stolen no, but copied yes. Kind of like their member's movies.
Anyway they will only get one sale unless a second sale offers much improved features. It is a good policy to force improvement.
This can only make you sad. The copyright cartels became the market monopoly and they now use their power and money to protect their monopoly through bullying, threats, bribes and corruption. Make no mistake that employing someone is lawful bribery and corruption.
Can you any more sick that Hollywood itself threatens Government level trade sanctions against other countries?
You in the United States need to kick these parasites out of Government buildings where a "clean out the crap day" should do it. Boot in the ass with a "don't come back". Then make clear that the Whitehouse is not their prostitution den of economic terrorism.
Government for rent. Insert notes and press button for economic policy of choice.
How it would be nice for Governments to step back and to examine the market as it is and the ongoing changes. Then to only fix problems where real economic damage is seen to occur.
Copyright enforcement is always balanced against public rights which means to increase enforcement without examining the claimed damages only results in a direct attack on the very public that they were elected to serve.
I am doubtful that anyone will have their Internet connection disconnected.
1. The UN has already classed Internet disconnections as a Human Rights violation.
2. The European Parliament has already considered the matter and banned 3-strike laws except for countries that already had it namely France and the UK. They were however absolutely clear over disconnections being banned.
3. In light of all evidence the European Court of Human Rights would have an easy job to overturn any disconnection rulings.
In all I am going to love hearing all the excuses these people claim and how these will be batted away by the Hadopi side.
Warners also has attacked registrations on a series of neuroscience books entitled "If I Only Had A Brain,"
I would call that feeble being a very different subject. I mean how can Warners have any gain or loss if these books used this name or some other?
a restaurant called "Wicked 'Wiches Wickedly Delicious Sandwiches,"
I am very doubtful that Warners own the "wicked witch" term.
Witch in its self is a rank in the Pagan/Wicca religion which is older than Christianity. Then due to the Bible's attack on Pagans these "witches" were soon seen as evil and wicked.
So that is the theme under which the books were wrote that pre-date the movie. No hope there in other words unless they infringed the character.
a clothing line known as "Wizard of Azz,"
Now they are getting silly.
Halloween costumes under the brand name "Wicked of Oz,"
Seeing that we do refer to Australia as "Oz" short for Aussie then I doubt they can make that one stick. Then we also use Oz as ounces as in weight.
and dozens of other Oz-related marks.
As I am very sure these books used the word "Oz" then even that direct mention is now public domain.
But WB is claiming it doesn't matter, because public domain only applies to copyright.
I have seen such a claim once before. This is when someone is about to lose their case and makes an idiotic claim of pure arrogance.
My previous example was when UMG claimed that they did not have to consider "fair use" when taking down a video. The Judge not only pointed out they did indeed have to consider "fair use" but also they were wrong to remove the video.
Oh and thanks for insulting everything that is not under copyright.
In the UK there are two levels of Copyright enforcement.
The first level is Copyright Infringement which is handled in Civil court and overlooking home use then this happens like when you put on a public show without the right license.
Copyright Fraud is a matter for Criminal courts. This deals in much more serious cases when your business is based on infringing artists works.
This is a crude summery but the 10 years they mention is actually the maximum conviction for Copyright Fraud which of course applies none to site visitors.
Let us never forget that Iraq's WMDs were supplied by the United States during the Iran-Iraq War. So they were running around looking for barrels with like "Made in Texas" stamped on them.
And why did they find no WMDs? That was because during Gulf War 1 Iraq as part of their surrender agreement had to destroy all WMDs overseen by the UN and the United States.
The Americans sent UN weapon's inspectors to every dirt hole in Iraq they claimed could have WMDs. The Iraqi's were not always happy what with American involved spies but they did comply. The UN weapons inspectors did testify that Iraq had no WMDs. Colin Powell then give his speech to the UN which he now admits was the worst speech of his life.
So the United States well knew that Iraq was defenceless long before they invaded and carpet bombed Iraqi teenage conscripts trying to defend their country from the invaders. A glorious day for the United States to send them back to their loving family in bits.
Then once they had destroyed the former power in Iraq they had no plans to stabilize the region allowing every extremist to come to the front. Then in a genius act they removed one religion from power and put a rival religion in power which then triggered the first ever battles between the two religions in over 100 years.
Things in Iraq then got real nasty with regular bombings and an exodus of those fearing for their lives. Well at least the situation in Iraq has now improved.
Now before any Americans start moaning then remember this man went out of his way to deceive you and he lied to you hundreds of times. Remember the Iraqi Supergun that was nothing more than pipes used in their oil and gas production? Could a President backed up by experts have made such a mistake? Then we cannot forget how he used propaganda in a muck raking exorcise against Iraq. The CIA in their honesty and accuracy could not give him the dirt he wanted so he ordered his own Whitehouse staff to penetrate the CIA to turn up every unconfirmed and false rumour that could be used against them. Pure crap used to lie to millions of American voters and to the World.
I do directly claim that George W. Bush is a War Criminal and had he not been former President to the most powerful county in the World then he would soon be on trial for crimes against humanity and executed as the truly evil person he is.
This Iraq invasion caused well over 100,000 Iraqi deaths and 1.5 million refugees. Not to forget the 4485 US troops who lost their lives because their warmonger President lied to them.
Sounds a great idea. Then if any politician mentions CP in an argument then someone in the audience can just stand up and shout out "Pedobear's Law. You lose"
That would certainly promote the failed argument concept.
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Progress
Well yes trademark and patents are well known to be subject to grabs and trolling. Even YouTube media is subject to vast wrong owner grabs either to censor them or to suck up the advertising revenue.
In a world where a modern smartphone can involve 70,000 patents then you can wonder how the hell anything can move even if one of those patent owners wants paying or causes problems. Then of course your rival can use their own patent war-pack to ban your sales in multiple countries.
Does this situation really help technology development and progress? How can the little guys get into this market when all who came before have already locked up those 70,000 patents?
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Pondering
We should keep in mind the site owner uploading music himself would invalid any protection he had. Only users can upload infringing music and usually get away with it.
Then I also ponder just how much lawfully supplied music was involved here? Yes an artist leaking a few songs can indeed ramp up a fan base prior to an album release. Fame counts for everything in the entertainment world where locking up your creation for few to see is contradictory.
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Once the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act has been repealed, dropping the copyright term by 20 years down to life plus 50 years, then we can do no more in Congress.
Copyright then is set in International agreements meaning we need many countries to agree to then reduce the copyright term further.
Not to forget to map out clear Public Domain rules at the same time.
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The whole SOPA, PIPA and ACTA situation shows that not only is their millions of voters involved but the Tech companies have a large interest in protecting the Internet.
Then on an International level many companies already abused by copyright enforcement would love to see us take on Hollywood directly and to neuter this copyright abuse.
I would more call this both adding new laws and to repeal old laws at the same time.
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And now no more shall pass.
I believe you can see their greed in this when most of them is all about increasing fines. This has now led to the crazy non-commercial court cases that have yet to resolve a fine due to the loss of touch with reality.
Beyond those changes we also need a new non-commercial law to allow for easy resolve and fine in Civil court with the aim of control.
This is the best we can achieve without reforming Copyright on an international agreement.
On the post: MPAA: Ripping DVDs Shouldn't Be Allowed Because It Takes Away Our Ability To Charge You Multiple Times For The Same Content
Copies
Content shifting is a modern past time now we have many more devices than just the TV to watch media on.
It may have been nice to stick a DVD in my MP4 player but the massive flaws here is that my MP4 has no DVD slot and the actually DVD is bigger than the MP4 player.
This is not to forget that all my DVDs have every trace of the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) scrubbed clean including their ghastly anti-piracy video which meant burning a nice copy with their video removed. Although these days I will add the Copying is not Stealing video instead.
I tend to more buy imports to save the hassle.
As to FACT's "You wouldn't steal a car" then yes FACT I have now download an actual car from the Internet. Stolen no, but copied yes. Kind of like their member's movies.
Anyway they will only get one sale unless a second sale offers much improved features. It is a good policy to force improvement.
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Sickness
Can you any more sick that Hollywood itself threatens Government level trade sanctions against other countries?
You in the United States need to kick these parasites out of Government buildings where a "clean out the crap day" should do it. Boot in the ass with a "don't come back". Then make clear that the Whitehouse is not their prostitution den of economic terrorism.
Government for rent. Insert notes and press button for economic policy of choice.
On the post: Disney And Warner Bros. Prepare To Fight Over Who Owns The Public Domain Wizard Of Oz
"Nike MacDonalds of Oz" is my minor start including the golden M and the tick. I think a lot better could be done there.
Then we have to wonder if they would ever let this old movie become public domain one day.
On the post: Two Contradictory Paths In The UK When It Comes To Copyright Issues
Economics
Copyright enforcement is always balanced against public rights which means to increase enforcement without examining the claimed damages only results in a direct attack on the very public that they were elected to serve.
On the post: Hadopi Sends Info On Those Accused (Not Convicted) Of Repeat Infringement On To Prosecutors
Human Rights Abuse
1. The UN has already classed Internet disconnections as a Human Rights violation.
2. The European Parliament has already considered the matter and banned 3-strike laws except for countries that already had it namely France and the UK. They were however absolutely clear over disconnections being banned.
3. In light of all evidence the European Court of Human Rights would have an easy job to overturn any disconnection rulings.
In all I am going to love hearing all the excuses these people claim and how these will be batted away by the Hadopi side.
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On the post: Disney And Warner Bros. Prepare To Fight Over Who Owns The Public Domain Wizard Of Oz
Theory
I would call that feeble being a very different subject. I mean how can Warners have any gain or loss if these books used this name or some other?
a restaurant called "Wicked 'Wiches Wickedly Delicious Sandwiches,"
I am very doubtful that Warners own the "wicked witch" term.
Witch in its self is a rank in the Pagan/Wicca religion which is older than Christianity. Then due to the Bible's attack on Pagans these "witches" were soon seen as evil and wicked.
So that is the theme under which the books were wrote that pre-date the movie. No hope there in other words unless they infringed the character.
a clothing line known as "Wizard of Azz,"
Now they are getting silly.
Halloween costumes under the brand name "Wicked of Oz,"
Seeing that we do refer to Australia as "Oz" short for Aussie then I doubt they can make that one stick. Then we also use Oz as ounces as in weight.
and dozens of other Oz-related marks.
As I am very sure these books used the word "Oz" then even that direct mention is now public domain.
But WB is claiming it doesn't matter, because public domain only applies to copyright.
I have seen such a claim once before. This is when someone is about to lose their case and makes an idiotic claim of pure arrogance.
My previous example was when UMG claimed that they did not have to consider "fair use" when taking down a video. The Judge not only pointed out they did indeed have to consider "fair use" but also they were wrong to remove the video.
Oh and thanks for insulting everything that is not under copyright.
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On the post: UK Now Seizing Music Blogs (With American Domains) Over Copyright Claims
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The first level is Copyright Infringement which is handled in Civil court and overlooking home use then this happens like when you put on a public show without the right license.
Copyright Fraud is a matter for Criminal courts. This deals in much more serious cases when your business is based on infringing artists works.
This is a crude summery but the 10 years they mention is actually the maximum conviction for Copyright Fraud which of course applies none to site visitors.
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On the post: Canadian Politician: You're Either In Favor Of Letting The Gov't Spy On Your Internet Usage... Or You're For Child Pornography
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And why did they find no WMDs? That was because during Gulf War 1 Iraq as part of their surrender agreement had to destroy all WMDs overseen by the UN and the United States.
The Americans sent UN weapon's inspectors to every dirt hole in Iraq they claimed could have WMDs. The Iraqi's were not always happy what with American involved spies but they did comply. The UN weapons inspectors did testify that Iraq had no WMDs. Colin Powell then give his speech to the UN which he now admits was the worst speech of his life.
So the United States well knew that Iraq was defenceless long before they invaded and carpet bombed Iraqi teenage conscripts trying to defend their country from the invaders. A glorious day for the United States to send them back to their loving family in bits.
Then once they had destroyed the former power in Iraq they had no plans to stabilize the region allowing every extremist to come to the front. Then in a genius act they removed one religion from power and put a rival religion in power which then triggered the first ever battles between the two religions in over 100 years.
Things in Iraq then got real nasty with regular bombings and an exodus of those fearing for their lives. Well at least the situation in Iraq has now improved.
Now before any Americans start moaning then remember this man went out of his way to deceive you and he lied to you hundreds of times. Remember the Iraqi Supergun that was nothing more than pipes used in their oil and gas production? Could a President backed up by experts have made such a mistake? Then we cannot forget how he used propaganda in a muck raking exorcise against Iraq. The CIA in their honesty and accuracy could not give him the dirt he wanted so he ordered his own Whitehouse staff to penetrate the CIA to turn up every unconfirmed and false rumour that could be used against them. Pure crap used to lie to millions of American voters and to the World.
I do directly claim that George W. Bush is a War Criminal and had he not been former President to the most powerful county in the World then he would soon be on trial for crimes against humanity and executed as the truly evil person he is.
This Iraq invasion caused well over 100,000 Iraqi deaths and 1.5 million refugees. Not to forget the 4485 US troops who lost their lives because their warmonger President lied to them.
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That would certainly promote the failed argument concept.
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