Normally I would agree, but I could see EA actually fighting this because of the long term benefits for them. Currently they license all the players in the game through the Players Association. Imagine how that situation would change if the court said they didn't need to license every player's likeness.
And you just strengthened Mike's point. He didn't come up with the light bulb on his own. He took a basic form of it that already existed, no matter how poorly done, and improved upon it. He took an already existing thing, improved it, and then marketed the heck out of it.
I understand your point that he made a lot of changes to it, but that just reinforces Mike's point on invention vs innovation. He didn't invent the light bulb. It already existed. What he did do was make it practical and useful for everyone.
This is fantastic news. It's good to see a judge with some common sense acknowledge that only Viacom can know what is infringing.
The only thing that scares me is, given the history of the lack of common sense in the appellate court, that it will be overturned and sent back down by the court. Lets all hope that isn't the case.
They don't because Blockbuster is already paying them extra money from the regular rentals, so they have an incentive to promote Blockbuster and hinder others.
St. Louis Bread Co was there original name and is still used in the St. Louis area. They changed the name in areas outside St. Louis after they started expanding.
This is incorrect. They filmed it with their cameras, therefore they hold the copyright to the footage. However the footage that Krimmel filmed with his camera is copyrighted by him. Same event but each set of footage has it's own copyright.
The problem is that trademark is not meant to benefit companies. It was designed as consumer protection, and to keep people from copying others brands.
Unfortunately, it has gotten perverted as to be more power for the corporations just like the rest of IP law.
With how popular Orkut is in Brazil, Google should just block all users from Brazil and put a message up saying it was blocked because they can't risk the liability that the government is placing on them. With it's popularity you can bet the people would cause enough uproar to get the laws changed.
If the theaters want me to start coming back, they have one major thing they have to start doing. Hire more ushers and start removing people from the theater when they are ruining it for other people. I can't stand going to see a moving at the theater because there is always some annoying teenagers chatting constantly or texting with their cell glowing in the dark theater.
If the theaters would start removing people it would greatly improve the experience and people would start coming back to see good movies. The theaters will always have an advantage when it comes to screen size and usually have an advantage in sound, but they give up the advantage by letting other people ruin the experience.
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The DMCA does not say you are required to remove content that you know is illegal. The DMCA only says you are required to takedown content after receiving a takedown notice from the copyright holder.
When SMS became Missouri State a few years ago, they were very careful to not use MSU anywhere because of fear of a lawsuit from Michigan State. It is absurd that anyone can own 3 letters even when they are both accurate descriptions.
The problem is that the companies are being weak. The problem is that our legal system is so screwed up, that it is cheaper for a company to pay someone off than fight it in court, even if the person has no legal basis.
We need to find a way to make money less relevant to the outcome of court cases and then you'll see crap like this start to disappear.
You are arguing two different meanings of free. It's the classic FOSS line of free as in beer vs free as in freedom. Same word but two completely different meanings.
The problem is the mother was likely not very technically savvy and wouldn't have know what to look for anyway. Also it's incredibly easy to run things like uTorrent off of usb drives so that there is little to no evidence left on the host computer. How is someone who doesn't understand the technology supposed to stop someone who does, as is often the case with parents vs children.
Trademark would be ridiculous because Trademarks are only valid when used in commerce. Can someone please show me where the Aztecs are using their symbols in commerce?
Mikes point that you missed is that the digital world is inherently different from what you would purchase in the physical world. In the physical world, making a copy of something is difficult and takes time. Digital things are inherently different because they can be infinitely copied with little effort.
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I understand your point that he made a lot of changes to it, but that just reinforces Mike's point on invention vs innovation. He didn't invent the light bulb. It already existed. What he did do was make it practical and useful for everyone.
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Great news, but I fear the Appellate Court
The only thing that scares me is, given the history of the lack of common sense in the appellate court, that it will be overturned and sent back down by the court. Lets all hope that isn't the case.
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Unfortunately, it has gotten perverted as to be more power for the corporations just like the rest of IP law.
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If the theaters would start removing people it would greatly improve the experience and people would start coming back to see good movies. The theaters will always have an advantage when it comes to screen size and usually have an advantage in sound, but they give up the advantage by letting other people ruin the experience.
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We need to find a way to make money less relevant to the outcome of court cases and then you'll see crap like this start to disappear.
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