HAHAHA, in your dreams. It wont ever expire, it will just get more extensions. Face it, its infinity+95years.
Laugh all you want but before this Federal level copyright term audio recordings were subject to state law and many of those did grant eternal protection.
This is certainly a scheme that the US Government should do and they only have to find out how best to. Old media does need to be put through digital conversion and such a huge public domain source would be wonderful.
The main problem in all this is that the United States has a mandatory copyright term on all audio recordings that expires somewhere around 2068. So this can be Public Domain as in silent or Public Domain as in released control for the public good.
Then let us not forget that third party productions can usually be subject copyright protection even if tax payer money funded the whole production.
This all reflects how Public Domain media, even Government sourced, is treated like trash next to copyright media. At least vast volumes of media is available for conversion and much of this is quite quick and easy.
Looking on the bright side then Silicon Valley paying the Administration lobbying funds to leave the Internet alone seems better than the MPAA & RIAA's attempt to pay them to try and pull it apart.
I don't believe this is the point of his visit when simply this is a whitewash and damage control. Joe Biden's love of Hollywood's lobby funds has alienated the Internet and Tech community and VP Biden knows they can prove a serious enemy if he messes things up. So he is simply there to see how he can keep them basically happy with the odd tossed bone while his copyright rampage continues.
We can of course hope he sees beyond the copyright's side propaganda and false statistics but all VP Biden has done to date is to accept their large lobby checks while quoting their anti-piracy manifesto word for word. It is also doubtful he would abandon such a consistent long-term source of campaign funds.
Well at least on his dinner date he may actually learn something and if Silicon Valley do good they will use the time to put on a presentation as to why he is helping things none.
So both patents and copyright are both seriously broken and abuse systems and the monopolies who have corrupted the system for their own profit are the ones who fight hard to avoid reform while extending their own controls.
Congress are clearly a waste of time and space. Instead of doing something useful they only welcome the bribe money while giving these monopolies whatever they want to buy.
So all we do is moan and protest where nothing much then happens.
Clearly value in the eye of the beholder. Melt those down and they would then be worth little. Instead it is all blah, blah, blah something happened on such date and rare just because things happened one way and not another.
A good market these days are Chinese antiques like Ming pottery when then Chinese are spending millions to buy them back.
I have books here older than all those coins but age alone does not affect value much unless all rivals vanish. My oldest book is dated 1701 and in Latin.
Well ain't this a complex subject. A start-up has to consider taxes, regulation, markets, opposition, wages and more.
The main attraction of the United States has always been the one huge home market of rich (or not so rich these days) customers. Taxes and transport seem good enough.
The main problem would be wages when this often quickly becomes a business's primary expense and well to start in say India instead is only 25% of the wages cost.
Opposition is a large problem in the U.S when it is a sue or be sued world there. A start-up does have big problems against a major rival who can sue them in court for some aimless reason into liquidation. I would not say Government regulations were too bad when in America there are a thousand different ways to make money.
My top choice for a start-up though would be Hong Kong when no one there cares at all what you do which makes a good place for any business wanting to keep to itself. It is a major transport hub in Asia. Then there are no end of Chinese worker imports (or Thai, Pinoy etc) happy with some small wage and some floor space to sleep on.
What more can a business want as long as it can still tap the North American and European markets?
There is nothing said that I would disagree with. This was indeed the RIAA's attempt to shut down a distribution channel that they did not control and did not profit from.
Yes it is also true to say that almost all parts of SOPA can already be enacted using current laws including the seizure of a rival's domain name and money accounts. That is not to say we welcome a repeat with an expanded scope of abuse.
I am very happy to see Dajaz1 back on-line and I will add that this is a beautiful website well worth a visit.
In all I think these words of Dajaz1 are so powerful that this could well be the key point that the worm turns and the copyright side start losing serious ground. These words will certainly ring around Congress and will be repeated and highlight by elected members of Congress.
I am in fact so happy with what I read here that I would soon electronically wife this website.
It is well known that lobby firms hire researchers to produce reports on piracy and other matters. These researchers have a reason to be biased when if their report reads "piracy is not a problem" then the lobby firm just stick that report in their "poison cupboard" so that no one can ever read it. Then they don't use that researcher again.
This why I said above Envisional have just earned an eternal place in NBC Universal's own "poison cupboard"
At least Envisional have a good chance of knocking out some honest statistics now but it is hard to say who would pay them for honest reports? I could name a few like Google but this is still biased lobbying.
It sure is a dream to see any copyright covered media created in my lifetime to become public domain within my lifetime. Obviously the Beatles are a prime example of media they would never want the copyright term to expire on.
What some people are overlooking here is that Public Domain means you don't have to pay money to anyone. Play how and where you like, copy, sell and most importantly to sample and remix to create new songs. A global resource of ideas that won't get your butt sued for using them.
Also most new media does have a short market life. This is why 99% of sales happen during the first few years. So exactly what sense does it make to wait life plus 70 years for the other 1%?
It has also been pointed out that copyright is a very complex beast and when many people are involved in a production it becomes less clear as to who owns what. It is clearly a lot more difficult now that copyright is automatic without need to file ownership forms. Payment for public performances is a separate but related aspect.
I am not surprised when even here in the UK the people arrested under terrorism laws are so not terrorists. Like those tourist arrested simply by taking some photos near a nuclear power plant. Then at the risk of a disruptive public protest the Police arrest key members under terrorism laws simply to detain them until the protest is over.
So these days everyone is a terrorist simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
She would not be taking IMDB to court if she planned her future in "animation". Indeed this is a woman who wants to win Hollywood over based on her curves and beautiful looks.
I won't even touch on her value to Hollywood but I can say after my recent chat to one American model working in Italy that the aspect of vanity is not only alive and well but seriously on the rampage.
Beauty is a disease to those who value it the most.
I would say that Junie Hoang looks older than the claimed 26 to 33 range when clearly she is late 30s to early 40s.
This I guess is just an actress in a mid-life acting crisis. Everyone in Hollywood running around saying how they love those young hot 20s girls but when they hit 35 major acting life is over and dustbin time post 40.
She seems to be doing well enough so far but now she would be cast in more Asian motherly roles. Not much you can say to that situation but that is life for you.
It always proves an interesting concept to be sued for being honest. I think the exposure of a liar could be a large part of this. The big question I see was if her privacy was violated by IMDB where revealing only her date of birth seems to be a weak case.
The biggest issue here is what happened to Spain with the United States forcing on them a SOPA-like law. That is despite considerable public and political objection.
Since this was done by the US Embassy in Madrid then this falls under the State Department of which Hilary Clinton is the supreme boss of foreign policy.
The irony here is that Ms. Clinton has also said much about a free, fair and uncensored Internet. She part of a group promoting this in other countries including that humorous time when Joe Biden gave her speech because she was ill.
I believe it untrue to say that the State Department has said nothing on SOPA when the last official word I heard was that they were very concerned about SOPA. This was all about other countries could crack down on the free speech and public protest under the excuse of "copyright enforcement"
So Hilary Clinton lives in Hypercritical House of say one thing and do another. You can only wonder who is pulling her strings and very few can do that. Can you not feel the waves of lobbying money being cast at the Whitehouse here?
While it is true that any media the US Government makes from tax payer funds is public domain there is one massive loophole in this concept.
That loophole happens to be that these Governmental departments can hire another company to make the video for them and it is that company which holds the copyright... even if your taxes paid for the entire production!
I would term that "theft" myself.
Now since ICE are rather slippery and have a history of avoiding accountability then what do you think they did? Proof is in the rip and reupload when I expect that copy to soon DMCA vanish.
Oh I forgot to mention that if the copyright term does get extended again retrospectively then this music by Jelly Roll Morton can get sucked back under copyright! Stolen from the public domain is a common theme of copyright in many regards.
Enjoy this Jazz while you can, in any way you want, when it may not last long.
Had Jelly Roll Morton not died in 1941 at the age of 55 then it would have been nice to now thank him. We can see that life plus 70 years applies to this one.
What I find most humorous is that to get the music of any artist into the public domain, as quickly as is possible, then you need to shoot them dead! I can even bizarrely thank Mark Chapman for shooting dead John Lennon on December 8, 1980 when I *may* just live long enough to see that 2050 public domain release. Then even that is only if the blissful eternal term of copyright does not get extended again before 2050.
Anyway peeps keep in mind that copyright law is indeed CrAzY and even Public Domain works in Europe can be copyrighted in the USA resulting in the extremely harsh anti-piracy measures and punishment.
The truth is that such public domain media is in law treated like trash next to copyright. It simply the expired branch of a long list of laws, amendments and extensions resulting in widespread confusion. For example back when it was compulsory to state Copyright in released media then they added on a law to state that owners can then claim copyright protection after the release. So while normally you can tell public domain based on the date and the box but they screwed that up when you also need to check for a post release copyright claim. Then don't get me started on different countries different laws.
I for one would not want to use any device for which I am "spied upon"
At least in the United States you have the 4th amendment namely "protection from unreasonable search and seizure" which grants your privacy and anonymity. Then again these who do the spying would say that is one law and we can name another.
The funny part about India is that it would be the vast innocent majority who are being watched. The real terrorists are the ones who have good reason to come hard encrypted to avoid all monitoring.
Still even the most secure system is flawed by the dumb users who do not follow security protocol.
Well the situation in the UK is not much better. TV news is a total void from what I have seen. The BBC have mentioned SOPA about 3 times on their news website but usually as a minor addition to a bigger story.
I don't think they act with malice or negligence. The BBC is usually happy to mainstream news anything that reaches number one most read story on their website.
What I think is happening is that they are waiting for something to blow up. So much for politics, or even the future of the Internet, if you can get some nasty riots, shootings or other bloodthirsty events. So should things get more visual and heavy then we may get there.
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Re: Re: Public Domain
HAHAHA, in your dreams. It wont ever expire, it will just get more extensions. Face it, its infinity+95years.
Laugh all you want but before this Federal level copyright term audio recordings were subject to state law and many of those did grant eternal protection.
So we moved from no hope to slim hope.
On the post: Is It Time For A Federal Scanning Commission?
Public Domain
The main problem in all this is that the United States has a mandatory copyright term on all audio recordings that expires somewhere around 2068. So this can be Public Domain as in silent or Public Domain as in released control for the public good.
Then let us not forget that third party productions can usually be subject copyright protection even if tax payer money funded the whole production.
This all reflects how Public Domain media, even Government sourced, is treated like trash next to copyright media. At least vast volumes of media is available for conversion and much of this is quite quick and easy.
On the post: To Pols Trying To Raise Money From Silicon Valley: Supporting SOPA/PIPA Probably Isn't Wise
Joe "Hollywood" Biden
I don't believe this is the point of his visit when simply this is a whitewash and damage control. Joe Biden's love of Hollywood's lobby funds has alienated the Internet and Tech community and VP Biden knows they can prove a serious enemy if he messes things up. So he is simply there to see how he can keep them basically happy with the odd tossed bone while his copyright rampage continues.
We can of course hope he sees beyond the copyright's side propaganda and false statistics but all VP Biden has done to date is to accept their large lobby checks while quoting their anti-piracy manifesto word for word. It is also doubtful he would abandon such a consistent long-term source of campaign funds.
Well at least on his dinner date he may actually learn something and if Silicon Valley do good they will use the time to put on a presentation as to why he is helping things none.
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Nothing
Congress are clearly a waste of time and space. Instead of doing something useful they only welcome the bribe money while giving these monopolies whatever they want to buy.
So all we do is moan and protest where nothing much then happens.
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Beholders
A good market these days are Chinese antiques like Ming pottery when then Chinese are spending millions to buy them back.
I have books here older than all those coins but age alone does not affect value much unless all rivals vanish. My oldest book is dated 1701 and in Latin.
On the post: Is America Losing Its Startup Edge?
US to HK
The main attraction of the United States has always been the one huge home market of rich (or not so rich these days) customers. Taxes and transport seem good enough.
The main problem would be wages when this often quickly becomes a business's primary expense and well to start in say India instead is only 25% of the wages cost.
Opposition is a large problem in the U.S when it is a sue or be sued world there. A start-up does have big problems against a major rival who can sue them in court for some aimless reason into liquidation. I would not say Government regulations were too bad when in America there are a thousand different ways to make money.
My top choice for a start-up though would be Hong Kong when no one there cares at all what you do which makes a good place for any business wanting to keep to itself. It is a major transport hub in Asia. Then there are no end of Chinese worker imports (or Thai, Pinoy etc) happy with some small wage and some floor space to sleep on.
What more can a business want as long as it can still tap the North American and European markets?
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The Worm Turns
Yes it is also true to say that almost all parts of SOPA can already be enacted using current laws including the seizure of a rival's domain name and money accounts. That is not to say we welcome a repeat with an expanded scope of abuse.
I am very happy to see Dajaz1 back on-line and I will add that this is a beautiful website well worth a visit.
In all I think these words of Dajaz1 are so powerful that this could well be the key point that the worm turns and the copyright side start losing serious ground. These words will certainly ring around Congress and will be repeated and highlight by elected members of Congress.
I am in fact so happy with what I read here that I would soon electronically wife this website.
On the post: CreativeAmerica Copies Content To Support Anti-Copying Bills
Not a surprise
Congratulations to Creative-America for proving how good ideas tend to be copied throughout society.
On the post: NBC Universal's Own Preferred Researcher For 'Anti-Piracy' Stats Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA
Envisional
This why I said above Envisional have just earned an eternal place in NBC Universal's own "poison cupboard"
At least Envisional have a good chance of knocking out some honest statistics now but it is hard to say who would pay them for honest reports? I could name a few like Google but this is still biased lobbying.
On the post: Jazz Pioneer 'Jelly Roll' Morton's Music Finally Free For Re-use In Europe -- A Hundred Years Too Late
Re: Re: The Trash
What some people are overlooking here is that Public Domain means you don't have to pay money to anyone. Play how and where you like, copy, sell and most importantly to sample and remix to create new songs. A global resource of ideas that won't get your butt sued for using them.
Also most new media does have a short market life. This is why 99% of sales happen during the first few years. So exactly what sense does it make to wait life plus 70 years for the other 1%?
It has also been pointed out that copyright is a very complex beast and when many people are involved in a production it becomes less clear as to who owns what. It is clearly a lot more difficult now that copyright is automatic without need to file ownership forms. Payment for public performances is a separate but related aspect.
On the post: NBC Universal's Own Preferred Researcher For 'Anti-Piracy' Stats Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA
Wanted Answers Only
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Tourism
So these days everyone is a terrorist simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
On the post: Actress Who Wished To Remain Anonymous And Under 40 Is Now Officially Neither
Re: Re: Re: Sue the Honest
I won't even touch on her value to Hollywood but I can say after my recent chat to one American model working in Italy that the aspect of vanity is not only alive and well but seriously on the rampage.
Beauty is a disease to those who value it the most.
On the post: Actress Who Wished To Remain Anonymous And Under 40 Is Now Officially Neither
Sue the Honest
This I guess is just an actress in a mid-life acting crisis. Everyone in Hollywood running around saying how they love those young hot 20s girls but when they hit 35 major acting life is over and dustbin time post 40.
She seems to be doing well enough so far but now she would be cast in more Asian motherly roles. Not much you can say to that situation but that is life for you.
It always proves an interesting concept to be sued for being honest. I think the exposure of a liar could be a large part of this. The big question I see was if her privacy was violated by IMDB where revealing only her date of birth seems to be a weak case.
On the post: State Department Can't Take An Official Stance On SOPA Yet, So There Isn't One
Hypercritical Hilary
Since this was done by the US Embassy in Madrid then this falls under the State Department of which Hilary Clinton is the supreme boss of foreign policy.
The irony here is that Ms. Clinton has also said much about a free, fair and uncensored Internet. She part of a group promoting this in other countries including that humorous time when Joe Biden gave her speech because she was ill.
I believe it untrue to say that the State Department has said nothing on SOPA when the last official word I heard was that they were very concerned about SOPA. This was all about other countries could crack down on the free speech and public protest under the excuse of "copyright enforcement"
So Hilary Clinton lives in Hypercritical House of say one thing and do another. You can only wonder who is pulling her strings and very few can do that. Can you not feel the waves of lobbying money being cast at the Whitehouse here?
On the post: ICE Propaganda Film Pats Itself On The Back For Censoring The Web; Promises Much More To Come
The Loophole
That loophole happens to be that these Governmental departments can hire another company to make the video for them and it is that company which holds the copyright... even if your taxes paid for the entire production!
I would term that "theft" myself.
Now since ICE are rather slippery and have a history of avoiding accountability then what do you think they did? Proof is in the rip and reupload when I expect that copy to soon DMCA vanish.
On the post: Jazz Pioneer 'Jelly Roll' Morton's Music Finally Free For Re-use In Europe -- A Hundred Years Too Late
Extra
Enjoy this Jazz while you can, in any way you want, when it may not last long.
On the post: Jazz Pioneer 'Jelly Roll' Morton's Music Finally Free For Re-use In Europe -- A Hundred Years Too Late
The Trash
What I find most humorous is that to get the music of any artist into the public domain, as quickly as is possible, then you need to shoot them dead! I can even bizarrely thank Mark Chapman for shooting dead John Lennon on December 8, 1980 when I *may* just live long enough to see that 2050 public domain release. Then even that is only if the blissful eternal term of copyright does not get extended again before 2050.
Anyway peeps keep in mind that copyright law is indeed CrAzY and even Public Domain works in Europe can be copyrighted in the USA resulting in the extremely harsh anti-piracy measures and punishment.
The truth is that such public domain media is in law treated like trash next to copyright. It simply the expired branch of a long list of laws, amendments and extensions resulting in widespread confusion. For example back when it was compulsory to state Copyright in released media then they added on a law to state that owners can then claim copyright protection after the release. So while normally you can tell public domain based on the date and the box but they screwed that up when you also need to check for a post release copyright claim. Then don't get me started on different countries different laws.
On the post: Leaked Memo Confirms Apple, Nokia & RIM Gave Indian Gov't Backdoors
The 4th
At least in the United States you have the 4th amendment namely "protection from unreasonable search and seizure" which grants your privacy and anonymity. Then again these who do the spying would say that is one law and we can name another.
The funny part about India is that it would be the vast innocent majority who are being watched. The real terrorists are the ones who have good reason to come hard encrypted to avoid all monitoring.
Still even the most secure system is flawed by the dumb users who do not follow security protocol.
On the post: Study Confirms: News Networks Owned By SOPA Supporters... Are Ignoring SOPA/PIPA
Added Heat
I don't think they act with malice or negligence. The BBC is usually happy to mainstream news anything that reaches number one most read story on their website.
What I think is happening is that they are waiting for something to blow up. So much for politics, or even the future of the Internet, if you can get some nasty riots, shootings or other bloodthirsty events. So should things get more visual and heavy then we may get there.
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