What is alarming about this case is it sets the stage for other countries to demand extradition of US citizens for breaking foreign laws for acts that are legal and even Constitutionally protected in the United States.
One thing that needs to change is to make it legal for incidental use of copyrighted works such as music in the background of videos or painting or artwork or trademarks etc that appear in images or video photos that are not the main focus of the work.
Sorry but patents are now more likely to crush small inventors than protect them. Patent trolls are the enemy of the small inventor. They steal ideas from other people by claiming one of their patents is infringing even though it is only vaguely similar. These trolls are extortionists that prey on inventors.
There is a long history of patents from the steam engine to the telephone to the airplane to the lightbulb that none of these things really took off until after their patents had expired and without exception development was hampered by the inventors who were more interested in asserting their patents than actually producing and improving their inventions.
This is what I like to see. Instead of victims just defending against patent attacks they move to invalidate the trolls patent all together. Every time a patent dies new innovation is born.
Too bad TiVo can no longer compete with other DVRs and now has to resort to patent trolling.
It appears this licencing company is guilty of fraud by requesting payment where they are not entitled and are simply making this request in hopes that some will comply being ignorant of the law.
His attitude towards disruptive technology reminds me of the Democrat Committee-Chairman who said after they lost the House of Representatives having held the majority for the last 40 years, "I will have to be more accommodating to the Republicans on my committee" One of his staffers said "You don't understand, you are not the chairman anymore the Republicans will now be in charge".
This is akin to a Denial of Service attack. Why these companies keep getting away with this is unreal. There should be SEVERE penalties for this. They lecture us about "content theft" when this really is theft in every definition of the word.
Everytime you think about a movie or tv show or photograph you have seen you are replaying the memory stored in your brain. The movie makers, songrighters, photographers etc are not being paid for for these copies and playback in your mind. Infact you now hold their intellectual property in your brain without compensating them. Dreaming itself may be fraught with infringements since the images presented may contain other's intellectual property. The only moral thing to do is keep a meter and if a memory is replayed in your mind you can record it and the IP owner will be paid accordingly. Anything else is theft and memory piracy.
Problem is the metric used to measure ads effectiveness
The problem with Internet ads is not the ads but the metric advertisers use to determine the success of an ad. Most ads track the number of people that click on their ads however this is not the way ads are effective. No other ad format is the viewer expected to make some overt act by clicking on an ad. Do TV or newspapers or magazines expect their potential customer to do some overt act like clicking on a link? No, the same goes for Internet advertising. The power of an ad is the exposure to the name of the company in the ad. Most people buy from brands they are familiar with and ads are what provide this familiarity. Judging an ads effectiveness by counting clicks is counter productive because few people do it and even fewer people who do it actually end up buying.
I suppose there are only hobbyists clothes designers and there are no quality close designs. Clothes designers cannot make any money because clothing designed are not subject to copyright.
In reality clothing design is one of the most dynamic of the creative industries. Clothes designers must constantly create new lines because they can't rest on their laurels and life off of one successful clothing line. Lack of copyrights have not hurt the clothing industry and in fact enhance it since each designer is free to build on past successes.
The price for honesty is getting threatened with imprisonment
If you watch a bootleg copy of a movie you do not get threatened with imprisonment. If you watch a legal copy of a movie you get threatened with imprisonment. Another way the movie industry devalues the genuine article while adding value to the bootleg article.
The same Saul Zaentz company who nearly killed any chance of the Hobbit Movie being made because of their unreasonable demands.
This place had used the name 'Hobbit' for over 25 years. If enough time goes by without a copyright holder taking any action then they should not be able to stop it.
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Bad and dangerous precedent
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Incidental uses of copyrighted works
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Re: more dissembling
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Re: Take Their Patents
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Take Their Patents
Too bad TiVo can no longer compete with other DVRs and now has to resort to patent trolling.
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Licencing company guilty of fraud
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On the post: Fox Issues DMCA Takedown To Google Over SF Chronicle Article... Claiming It Was The Movie 'Chronicle'
Re: Reverse 3 strikes
On the post: Fox Issues DMCA Takedown To Google Over SF Chronicle Article... Claiming It Was The Movie 'Chronicle'
Akin to DOS Attack
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Stop Memory Piracy
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So far I am the only person who has read this post. :-)
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Problem is the metric used to measure ads effectiveness
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In reality clothing design is one of the most dynamic of the creative industries. Clothes designers must constantly create new lines because they can't rest on their laurels and life off of one successful clothing line. Lack of copyrights have not hurt the clothing industry and in fact enhance it since each designer is free to build on past successes.
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The price for honesty is getting threatened with imprisonment
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Traffic Fatalities Plummet Despite Fatalities
http://www.nhtsa.gov/PR/NHTSA-05-11
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This place had used the name 'Hobbit' for over 25 years. If enough time goes by without a copyright holder taking any action then they should not be able to stop it.
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Re: Patent Maximalists
A scientist said to God "we don't need you anymore, we can create life ourselves".
God said "OK create life out of sand.
The scientist stooped down to pick up sand and God stopped him and said "No, that is my sand. Create your own".
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