Perhaps could have colored the bus green? Or left the bus B&W and the rest of the picture in color?
This seems more like a patent issue to me than a copyright issue, but there would be too much prior art on this idea for it to be patented. I think this judge must be confusing the rights of patents with the rights of copyright and applying patent rights to a copyright. They are not the same.
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Get rich quick? No you won't. Only the lawyers will. They will all get filthy rich from everybody suing everybody else over infringing their copyright on every manner of photograph that can be taken, and we'll all be in jail for infringing everybody else's copyright on photographing everything imaginable.
Question: If this stands, can Joe Bloviator (for example) take a photo of a city skyline, then sue any and everybody else who takes a photo of a city skyline (any city anywhere) for infringing his copyright? It would seem so to me.
I didn't have any problem figuring it out. Pretty straight forward to me, it just gives a brief summary of all the various new technologies the entertainment industry has tried to shut down, and which they have greatly benefited from once they accepted them. The Internet is no different in this respect.
If Hellywood would learn to work with new stuff instead of fighting it, suing people back to the stone age, making wild and unsubstantiated claims it's going to put them out of business and lying about and grossly inflating loss claims, it would greatly benefit everyone and save all of us a lot of grief.
So you think its better to burn your barn down to get rid of the rats, rather than to send in a cat to dispatch them? The rats will just go elsewhere and set up shop in another barn and you'll be out yours.
I read a story just last night about an author who invites all and sundry to pirate his book, and guess what? He's sold 12 million copies. Why? The piracy gave his book lots of exposure. Had he kept it all to himself and sued every person who made his book available on the Web guess how many he would have sold? Probably zero, or very few.
Get over it!!! Suing your customers is not going to bring people in breaking your doors down to buy your product. It's only going to make them mad and drive them away.
I write articles to post on the Internet and I put them in the public domain so people can rip them off legally. I want people to "rip them off" if that's what you call copying. I want them to get the widest circulation possible, because I'm doing it for the purpose of winning people to Jesus for the forgiveness of their wrongdoings and the salvation of their souls. Otherwise they'll go to hell.
Right on! How about Monsanto pushing their GMO corn, soybeans, alfalfa, sugar beets etc., polluting the world with its patented genes and suing those whom they've polluted for infringing their patents? If that isn't criminal I don't know what is.
Drive a stake? Yeah, right! Every one of these congressmen who accepted money from this legacy entertainment industry ought to be impeached for accepting bribes (yes I know campaign contributions are legal, but if it's for the purpose of influencing congressmen to do things that are against the public interest it shouldn't be, and its purpose and intent is exactly the same as if it were an outright bribe) and those who gave the money ought to be prosecuted for bribery. Sadly, though, this has become accepted practice, and with liberals in control I seriously doubt anything will be done about it.
The RIAA and the MPAA could save themselves and all the rest of us a whole lot of grief, if instead of trying to make out all their potential customers as criminals, they would provide a legal means for those who want to download by providing a means of licensing downloading for a reasonable monthly fee or per copy or some other way. The arguments the RIAA/MPAA are using against Internet copying today are the same arguments the entertainment industry has used against every new technology that has ever come out, from the cylinder phonograph onward. They made the same arguments about radio, the same arguments about the VCR, the same arguments about the cassette recorder, and every other new technology that has come out that touches the entertainment industry. And every time they have relented and accepted that new technology it has been very much to their advantage. And the Internet is no different. I'm quite sure most people who download would be more than willing to pay a reasonable fee to do so legally, but the RIAA?MPAA refuse to provide any way to do so. They would rather turn all of us into criminals and sue us back to the stone age, and/or utterly destroy the Internet, rather than give in. Nice way to win customers and influence people, huh? And then they wonder why their sales are tanking!!!
The RIAA and the MPAA could save themselves and all the rest of us a whole lot of grief, if instead of trying to make out all their potential customers as criminals, they would provide a legal means for those who want to download by providing a means of licensing downloading for a reasonable monthly fee or per copy or some other way. The arguments the RIAA/MPAA are using against Internet copying today are the same arguments the entertainment industry has used against every new technology that has ever come out, from the cylinder phonograph onward. They made the same arguments about radio, the same arguments about the VCR, the same arguments about the cassette recorder, and every other new technology that has come out that touches the entertainment industry. And every time they have relented and accepted that new technology it has been very much to their advantage. And the Internet is no different. I'm quite sure most people who download would be more than willing to pay a reasonable fee to do so legally, but the RIAA?MPAA refuse to provide any way to do so. They would rather turn all of us into criminals and sue us back to the stone age, and/or utterly destroy the Internet, rather than give in. Nice way to win customers and influence people, huh? And then they wonder why their sales are tanking!!!
Yup, he did it on NDA! He said he would veto it, and what did he do? He very sneakily signed it on Jan. 2 when I guess he thought nobody was paying attention.
I believe the USA is on the fast track to becoming a police state like Nazi Germany, Russia and China, and Obama has a thousand horsepower bulldozer behind it shoving it along as fast as he can.
Why all this hullabaloo over piracy? P!O!W!E!R! man! These guys are on a !P!O!W!E!R! trip. They're addicted to it. It's their life blood. They'd shrivel up and die without it.
Anybody whose business model is using litigation to extort money from law abiding citizens for alleged offenses based on onion skin thin evidence is a parasite.
No, the corporate content industries are the real pirates, going around using lawsuits and the threat of lawsuits to extract and extort money from everybody from infants to the dead for alleged infringements based on sometimes very flimsy evidence, and suing them back to the stone age if they don't give in. (Remember Jammie Thomas-Rasset, $1.8 million for downloading a few tunes?) Now who's the pirates?
As for their claims of massive losses, don't believe it. Their "piracy" figures are grossly overstated, they use fuzzy math to inflate the number of alleged infringements and they count each and every song downloaded as an entire album lost. Fuzzy logic at its finest. And they whine about millions of jobs and $billions being lost on account of piracy. I seriously doubt if the actual loss is more than .01% of what they're claiming. If PIPA/SOPA becomes law and is enforced, it has the potential to destroy the Internet as we know it today, and think of the millions of jobs and $$$billions of dollars that will be lost if that happens. This is burning your barn down with all your livestock in it to get rid of a few rats.
In order for any kind of censorship act to be fair, it must contain strong safeguards against abuse, including strong penalties for falsely censoring a website, and requirements that some sort of credible proof of infringement be presented before an allegedly infringing website is blocked. I see no such safeguards in SOPA or PIPA, all that is needed for a website to be censored is a mere accusation of infringement.
By way of a ridiculous example, I could assert copyright on this comment, send it in for posting and then accuse Techdirt of infringing my copyright by publishing the comment --never mind I sent it in for that very purpose-- and instantly Techdirt would be off the Web. No proof, no hearing, no court order, no due process, just Bang! You're censored. Guilty until proven innocent.
Penalties for abuse need to have substantial sting in them, enough to deter those who would dare to make false reports, or who would take a website down for no good reason, else people with nothing more than a grudge against someone could tear the Web to shreds.
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This seems more like a patent issue to me than a copyright issue, but there would be too much prior art on this idea for it to be patented. I think this judge must be confusing the rights of patents with the rights of copyright and applying patent rights to a copyright. They are not the same.
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If Hellywood would learn to work with new stuff instead of fighting it, suing people back to the stone age, making wild and unsubstantiated claims it's going to put them out of business and lying about and grossly inflating loss claims, it would greatly benefit everyone and save all of us a lot of grief.
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I read a story just last night about an author who invites all and sundry to pirate his book, and guess what? He's sold 12 million copies. Why? The piracy gave his book lots of exposure. Had he kept it all to himself and sued every person who made his book available on the Web guess how many he would have sold? Probably zero, or very few.
Get over it!!! Suing your customers is not going to bring people in breaking your doors down to buy your product. It's only going to make them mad and drive them away.
Got it?
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I write articles to post on the Internet and I put them in the public domain so people can rip them off legally. I want people to "rip them off" if that's what you call copying. I want them to get the widest circulation possible, because I'm doing it for the purpose of winning people to Jesus for the forgiveness of their wrongdoings and the salvation of their souls. Otherwise they'll go to hell.
How does that grab you?
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Get real, guys!
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Get real, guys!
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Yup, he did it on NDA! He said he would veto it, and what did he do? He very sneakily signed it on Jan. 2 when I guess he thought nobody was paying attention.
I believe the USA is on the fast track to becoming a police state like Nazi Germany, Russia and China, and Obama has a thousand horsepower bulldozer behind it shoving it along as fast as he can.
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That's why!
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As for their claims of massive losses, don't believe it. Their "piracy" figures are grossly overstated, they use fuzzy math to inflate the number of alleged infringements and they count each and every song downloaded as an entire album lost. Fuzzy logic at its finest. And they whine about millions of jobs and $billions being lost on account of piracy. I seriously doubt if the actual loss is more than .01% of what they're claiming. If PIPA/SOPA becomes law and is enforced, it has the potential to destroy the Internet as we know it today, and think of the millions of jobs and $$$billions of dollars that will be lost if that happens. This is burning your barn down with all your livestock in it to get rid of a few rats.
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ICE web censorship
By way of a ridiculous example, I could assert copyright on this comment, send it in for posting and then accuse Techdirt of infringing my copyright by publishing the comment --never mind I sent it in for that very purpose-- and instantly Techdirt would be off the Web. No proof, no hearing, no court order, no due process, just Bang! You're censored. Guilty until proven innocent.
Penalties for abuse need to have substantial sting in them, enough to deter those who would dare to make false reports, or who would take a website down for no good reason, else people with nothing more than a grudge against someone could tear the Web to shreds.
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