Yeah, but a homeowner with insurance would be stupid to admit to that. Once an insurance agent got wind that the homeowner didn't lock the door, then their insurance payout would go away.
I imagine a much higher number than gets reported aren't in fact "break & enters" but just "enters", as you suggest. My fiance has a horrible time remembering to lock our apartment front door, but fortunately there's locks on the building doors and her DVDs are placed on the shelves closest to the front door. So, as long as the thieves just grab the easiest DVDs, they're hers anyway ... and then the thieves can bitch & moan later at the number of chick flicks they managed to swipe.
There's no such thing as a "competent politician" ... because the government system is one of growth. Laws don't expire, they accumulate. With the laws accumulates power. With the accumulation of power, people who wish to have power will flock to attain political positions. Then they will use those positions to secure more power.
The solution is to vote out our current government, and stop there.
Remove the positions of power, and the people who wish to have power over you will not have government as their jumping point. If people feel we need a federal government, then reduce it back to Constitutional levels, and require laws be regularly renewed. Then, they will be kept busy maintaining the current system of laws instead of simply adding more and more and more and more and more and more and more.
And hold people in government positions personally accountable for their decisions, and to a higher moral code. If they wish to tell other people how to live their lives, then should prove that they are without any moral ambiguity in their own lives. The slightest sign they are human, and they should no longer be allowed to tell anyone else what to do. If they can't follow the laws they put in place, then why do they expect us to?
RedBox is most commonly found at McDonald's restaurants. At least around Denver. There's another company that provides an identical service that has kiosks in a lot of grocery stores around here, too.
And my fiance pointed out that I missed mentioning techies. You can't throw a rock at Burning Man without (1) getting yelled at for mooping/littering, and (2) hitting a programmer or DJ.
There's a long standing joke that you can't get code written in Silicon Valley the week before Labor Day. Because all the programmers are at Burning Man. The two Google founders still attend regularly.
In use for promoting the works they have copyrights for, there is a good possibility that EMI does have rights to use his likeness. And even if they don't have explicit rights, there are fair use rights that come into play, since it is his music & performance, that EMI has fair use rights to use his likeness in promoting it.
It's just an example of the mess that is known as copyright. I say total destruction of the system, remove the government involvement, and let the market figure itself out.
Well, it may stop some people who would purchase back issues to collect the artwork, because they would purchase the book instead that collected the covers as-is.
But then again, instead of a lawsuit, I don't see why the magazine in question doesn't collect the artwork from the covers, remove the copy to reveal more of the artwork, and then sell that themselves with the covers at a higher resolution than the book was using (at full magazine dimensions or larger) and release their photo book, possibly work in stories of working with the artist from people who were working at the magazine at the time. Then, interest in the book with its smaller covers, would only work to promote the magazine's compilation of larger, less obscured covers. And interest in the compilation of covers would create interest in the artist, and take people to the book and original artwork from the artist. Win-win-win, and everybody could cross-promote the products to create a larger market interest in their grouping of related products.
I think to the AC, the person who owns the copyright gets paid indefinitely, not the original creator. The original creator, in this case, essentially signed a work-for-hire contract wherein they were paid in full at the time of creation, and sold all rights to the label.
The creator received their full compensation for the work when they recorded their music, and probably received more money upfront than they would have under other contract situations. EMI took a larger financial chance and gained all copyrights in the process.
Perhaps Morrissey didn't have other contracts offered to choose a better situation to create in where they retained at least some rights ... or maybe they made a poor decision and took more upfront money at the expense of potential revenue later (i.e. they DIDN'T bet on themselves). Either way, Morrissey signed a bad contract, and are now throwing up a stink about it.
That, I believe, is a problem with the old system. To get their music heard, musicians felt they had to sign these bad contracts. Hopefully, more will learn they can create their music, and leverage the Internet & free music models to get heard & make money on their own without the need to sign away all rights to a label just to get an audience.
Essentially, it sounds like they are making topical news aggregators, which do nothing more than take a keyword or tag and show those stories on a page. This is exactly the type of system they are claiming to be "stealing" their content. And those aggregators aren't really doing that well. So, the AP appears to be "stealing" a non-working business model.
If they want to truly attack the topic space from a Wikipedia angle, then they need to have dedicated staff nurturing & tending to each topic manually. This means getting and organizing stories from their reporters and getting experts to contribute insight into the news.
So, not retyping stories, but more becoming an editor of the topic. Treat the page as a continuously evolving news story.
For example: The Iraq War. They could have set-up a topical page full of hand selected & nurtured stories relating to the war, and organized by a human (not computer algorithms) to build on each other and create a story. Also, this person would recognize holes and attempt to get reporters or experts to fill in information or stories to create a complete picture. The page wouldn't be changing constantly, but would essentially paint a big picture view through a combination of in-depth investigative (and longer lasting) reports with shorter in-the-moment (and faster cycling) news stories. All brought together through expert analysis pretty charts & graphs, photo albums, user comments, editorials, timelines, and any number of elements of information at their disposal.
It takes work, and it sounds like the AP wants the quick way out by hiring a programmer to making a website to do all that for them. Wikipedia has thousands of writers and editors nurturing and caring for each page because they are passionate about that topic. If the AP wants to compete on the Wikipedia topic side, they need to leverage the human aspects at their disposal. The computer algorithm approach will put heat on the pure news aggregators, but they aren't doing well on search results or in revenue, so why model after them in the first place?
Can you explain how a newspaper has exclusive rights to investigate a news story?
It seems that if someone does some investigating on a subject, and then writes a report or story about it, then regardless of who they work for, they just wrote an investigative report.
Please explain how being printed in a newspaper is a prerequisite to be an investigative report.
I've had run-ins with the Burning Man IP police on 3rd party sites that didn't question the validity of the borg's claim.
I had a design on Cafe Press that only had "BRC" in a sans-serif font within a circle ("BRC" can be the initials for "Black Rock City", the official name given to the temporary city by event organizers). Evidently, the borg claims ownership of "BRC" as a trademark (which I thought went along with logos and identity, not simply putting 3 letters in succession in any context). Cafe Press, without question, took down my design.
I've also had event organizers claim I couldn't use burningman.spacemonkeymafia.com as a sub-domain to my website when I was creating a website for my theme camp. I had already come up with a better idea and went with playa.spacemonkeymafia.com, since playa is a generic Spanish word for "beach", in addition to the name given to land where Burning Man is held which is an ancient sea bed and very beachy.
It's utterly ridiculous how far the Burning Man organization takes their ownership over the event so far to the totalitarian extremes, that it's almost hypocritical in that they feel the ends justify the means. They stand on the pillars of radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, and radical inclusionism, but act as a school yard bully, extinguishes as much expression that it doesn't like as it can, and creates a walled barrier between them and everyone else.
Actually, there are very few hippies at Burning Man. It's a majority of artists, retirees, and ravers. You're more likely to find a redneck in a pick-up truck with a bullhorn making fun of hippies than actually seeing any hippies.
Dude, if anyone here knew 100% THE business model that's going to work the 100% best, they wouldn't be commenting on threads on TechDirt, because they'd be out there making a butt-ton of money with their business model. We have ideas, and there are several perfectly reasonable ideas that have been floated around.
The answer is not to ignore the market entirely and hope this whole Internet thing blows over and everyone goes back to how things were in 1989. They need to at least be TRYING out ideas, but they aren't.
And that's the problem.
And to focus in on one point you made: "Why would the Englsh Premier League want to attend to the needs of a fan in the Canada? If there is enough pent up demand, surely a broadcaster (canada has a number of sports channels) would want to pick up the games and run them to satisfy the demand."
Here's an idea ... there probably AREN'T enough people in Canada to justify to a local or regional broadcaster to pick-up many or any games. BUT, GLOBALLY, in Canada, the US, the rest of Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, etc ... combined there is probably a large enough market that can be served by a modest web-site run efficiently that can be monetized in any number of ways. Thinking of a global market, instead of broadcast markets, and a huge untapped potential emerges. Thinking locally in this case may not be as viable as scaling to a single, international solution.
So, do you propose the solution is no solution at all?
"Next time someone is stopped selling knockoff Gucci bags, don't shut them down, don't seize the inventory, let's just wait and see what the courts thing."
Actually, that's exactly what should happen. By seizing inventory, other than a sample for evidence, the person is essentially being convicted before they go to trial. If courts find their bags are close, but different enough to NOT be considered knock-offs, then an innocent person has had their life & business ruined for nothing, with no compensation.
Until a court says "no, these are knock-offs and cannot be manufactured & sold", then their inventory should stay where it is, and the person should be able to conduct the business they were doing.
There's a process in place, and it starts with the presumption of innocence.
Upon more thinking ... how often & how well do the major newspapers do investigative reporting themselves? They certainly don't do them daily.
I've read two thorough and well written investigative reports in the past month written by so-called "amateurs" that in terms of their investigations went deeper than the old media did, and did a better job writing their articles than the "pros".
I haven't seen a good investigative report come out of a major newspaper in that time. In fact, in light of some major non-newspaper broken stories, particularly in the Madoff case, that reporters even KNEW about what was going on, but DIDN'T report on it.
That's how awesome old media newspapers are at investigative journalism. It doesn't even need to be raining to get them off of a story. That's what separates the "pros vs Jos" ...
"When it's raining, when it's cold, when it's too far away, the amateurs stay home and the pros go do the work." But when it's sunny, warm, and close-by, the pros take the day off and go do something else instead.
Unfortunately, it doesn't rain as often as it's sunny, so the pros get more time off.
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I imagine a much higher number than gets reported aren't in fact "break & enters" but just "enters", as you suggest. My fiance has a horrible time remembering to lock our apartment front door, but fortunately there's locks on the building doors and her DVDs are placed on the shelves closest to the front door. So, as long as the thieves just grab the easiest DVDs, they're hers anyway ... and then the thieves can bitch & moan later at the number of chick flicks they managed to swipe.
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The solution is to vote out our current government, and stop there.
Remove the positions of power, and the people who wish to have power over you will not have government as their jumping point. If people feel we need a federal government, then reduce it back to Constitutional levels, and require laws be regularly renewed. Then, they will be kept busy maintaining the current system of laws instead of simply adding more and more and more and more and more and more and more.
And hold people in government positions personally accountable for their decisions, and to a higher moral code. If they wish to tell other people how to live their lives, then should prove that they are without any moral ambiguity in their own lives. The slightest sign they are human, and they should no longer be allowed to tell anyone else what to do. If they can't follow the laws they put in place, then why do they expect us to?
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I'm cynical when it comes to government. But optimistic when it comes to technology & the free market.
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There's a long standing joke that you can't get code written in Silicon Valley the week before Labor Day. Because all the programmers are at Burning Man. The two Google founders still attend regularly.
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Happy their company isn't the target of a lawsuit.
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It's just an example of the mess that is known as copyright. I say total destruction of the system, remove the government involvement, and let the market figure itself out.
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But then again, instead of a lawsuit, I don't see why the magazine in question doesn't collect the artwork from the covers, remove the copy to reveal more of the artwork, and then sell that themselves with the covers at a higher resolution than the book was using (at full magazine dimensions or larger) and release their photo book, possibly work in stories of working with the artist from people who were working at the magazine at the time. Then, interest in the book with its smaller covers, would only work to promote the magazine's compilation of larger, less obscured covers. And interest in the compilation of covers would create interest in the artist, and take people to the book and original artwork from the artist. Win-win-win, and everybody could cross-promote the products to create a larger market interest in their grouping of related products.
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The creator received their full compensation for the work when they recorded their music, and probably received more money upfront than they would have under other contract situations. EMI took a larger financial chance and gained all copyrights in the process.
Perhaps Morrissey didn't have other contracts offered to choose a better situation to create in where they retained at least some rights ... or maybe they made a poor decision and took more upfront money at the expense of potential revenue later (i.e. they DIDN'T bet on themselves). Either way, Morrissey signed a bad contract, and are now throwing up a stink about it.
That, I believe, is a problem with the old system. To get their music heard, musicians felt they had to sign these bad contracts. Hopefully, more will learn they can create their music, and leverage the Internet & free music models to get heard & make money on their own without the need to sign away all rights to a label just to get an audience.
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If they want to truly attack the topic space from a Wikipedia angle, then they need to have dedicated staff nurturing & tending to each topic manually. This means getting and organizing stories from their reporters and getting experts to contribute insight into the news.
So, not retyping stories, but more becoming an editor of the topic. Treat the page as a continuously evolving news story.
For example: The Iraq War. They could have set-up a topical page full of hand selected & nurtured stories relating to the war, and organized by a human (not computer algorithms) to build on each other and create a story. Also, this person would recognize holes and attempt to get reporters or experts to fill in information or stories to create a complete picture. The page wouldn't be changing constantly, but would essentially paint a big picture view through a combination of in-depth investigative (and longer lasting) reports with shorter in-the-moment (and faster cycling) news stories. All brought together through expert analysis pretty charts & graphs, photo albums, user comments, editorials, timelines, and any number of elements of information at their disposal.
It takes work, and it sounds like the AP wants the quick way out by hiring a programmer to making a website to do all that for them. Wikipedia has thousands of writers and editors nurturing and caring for each page because they are passionate about that topic. If the AP wants to compete on the Wikipedia topic side, they need to leverage the human aspects at their disposal. The computer algorithm approach will put heat on the pure news aggregators, but they aren't doing well on search results or in revenue, so why model after them in the first place?
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It seems that if someone does some investigating on a subject, and then writes a report or story about it, then regardless of who they work for, they just wrote an investigative report.
Please explain how being printed in a newspaper is a prerequisite to be an investigative report.
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I had a design on Cafe Press that only had "BRC" in a sans-serif font within a circle ("BRC" can be the initials for "Black Rock City", the official name given to the temporary city by event organizers). Evidently, the borg claims ownership of "BRC" as a trademark (which I thought went along with logos and identity, not simply putting 3 letters in succession in any context). Cafe Press, without question, took down my design.
I've also had event organizers claim I couldn't use burningman.spacemonkeymafia.com as a sub-domain to my website when I was creating a website for my theme camp. I had already come up with a better idea and went with playa.spacemonkeymafia.com, since playa is a generic Spanish word for "beach", in addition to the name given to land where Burning Man is held which is an ancient sea bed and very beachy.
It's utterly ridiculous how far the Burning Man organization takes their ownership over the event so far to the totalitarian extremes, that it's almost hypocritical in that they feel the ends justify the means. They stand on the pillars of radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, and radical inclusionism, but act as a school yard bully, extinguishes as much expression that it doesn't like as it can, and creates a walled barrier between them and everyone else.
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The answer is not to ignore the market entirely and hope this whole Internet thing blows over and everyone goes back to how things were in 1989. They need to at least be TRYING out ideas, but they aren't.
And that's the problem.
And to focus in on one point you made: "Why would the Englsh Premier League want to attend to the needs of a fan in the Canada? If there is enough pent up demand, surely a broadcaster (canada has a number of sports channels) would want to pick up the games and run them to satisfy the demand."
Here's an idea ... there probably AREN'T enough people in Canada to justify to a local or regional broadcaster to pick-up many or any games. BUT, GLOBALLY, in Canada, the US, the rest of Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, etc ... combined there is probably a large enough market that can be served by a modest web-site run efficiently that can be monetized in any number of ways. Thinking of a global market, instead of broadcast markets, and a huge untapped potential emerges. Thinking locally in this case may not be as viable as scaling to a single, international solution.
So, do you propose the solution is no solution at all?
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Actually, that's exactly what should happen. By seizing inventory, other than a sample for evidence, the person is essentially being convicted before they go to trial. If courts find their bags are close, but different enough to NOT be considered knock-offs, then an innocent person has had their life & business ruined for nothing, with no compensation.
Until a court says "no, these are knock-offs and cannot be manufactured & sold", then their inventory should stay where it is, and the person should be able to conduct the business they were doing.
There's a process in place, and it starts with the presumption of innocence.
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I've read two thorough and well written investigative reports in the past month written by so-called "amateurs" that in terms of their investigations went deeper than the old media did, and did a better job writing their articles than the "pros".
I haven't seen a good investigative report come out of a major newspaper in that time. In fact, in light of some major non-newspaper broken stories, particularly in the Madoff case, that reporters even KNEW about what was going on, but DIDN'T report on it.
That's how awesome old media newspapers are at investigative journalism. It doesn't even need to be raining to get them off of a story. That's what separates the "pros vs Jos" ...
"When it's raining, when it's cold, when it's too far away, the amateurs stay home and the pros go do the work." But when it's sunny, warm, and close-by, the pros take the day off and go do something else instead.
Unfortunately, it doesn't rain as often as it's sunny, so the pros get more time off.
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