Unlike patent law, where you must obtain a registration to bring suit, you do not have to have a registration to sue someone for infringing your copyright. So why do you want a copyright registration? Only because a registration allows you to have certain advantages at trial owing to the fact that the USCO has an official record of your copyright, which makes it easier to prove certain things to be true, such as ownership and validity. Having a registration also makes litigation more advantageous, and when many people likely intend to infringe your copyright, that is something a copyright owner really wants to have. FTFY, AC2.
Hal Abelson, Brian Behlendorf, Ward Cunningham, Peter Deutsch, David Dill, Dave Farber, Ed Felten, Mitch Kapor, Alan Kay, Brian Kernighan, Guido van Rossum, Avi Rubin, Bruce Schneier, and Bjarne Stroustrup. Is it bad that I recognised only two names from the above list (Ed Felten and Bruce Schneier)?
Actually, the US government no longer see the First Amendment as a national treasure, but instead as toilet paper, along with the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eleventh Amendments (off the top of my head).
Crooked [studios] split the finished game into initial release and paid expansion in order to artificially increase the price. Yeah, we're looking at you, Ubis##t. You know, with what you did to Assassin's Creed II and all.
Actually, I'd say Tovar predicted the future. I'm pretty sure that claiming a child is harassing you with a one-time use of your publicly available image for a school project is criminal defamation. Simples!
Well, in Europe, it's argued that a digital version of a previously print-only work is a new expression of that idea, and thus deserves a new copyright, especially with all the work involved in correcting the OCR output. Of course, I don't see what took Harvard Library so long, given that 'sweat of the brow' isn't recognised in the US, and the change from print to digital is, as you state, too minor to allow a new copyright there.
I can answer this one from a UK perspective: My Brilliant Career (1901) - Miles Franklin, died 1954 Under copyright until 2025 Animal Farm (1945) - George Orwell, died 1950 Under copyright until 2021 The Great Gatsby (1925) - F Scott Fitzgerald, died 1940 Public Domain since 2011 Tender is the Night (1933) - F Scott Fitzgerald, died 1940 Public Domain since 2011 Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - D H Lawrence, died 1930 Public Domain from 1981-1996 then since 2001 Gone with the Wind (1936) - Margaret Mitchell, died 1949 Under copyright until 2020 Between the Acts (1941) - Virginia Woolf, died 1941 Public Domain
Which only proves that the publishers are fucking stupid. An ebook cannot possibly degrade, and will only be lost if something happens to the drive it's stored on.
Congress Wants To Push Dangerous Cybersecurity Bill After The Election, Knows US Economy Doesn't Depend On It FTFY. You know, truth in reporting and all that. ;)
So, now, who's going to create some awesome new Sherlock Holmes stories? Well, I'm not going to blow my own horn and say that they are 'awesome', but I've written two Sherlock Holmes oneshots that you can read here, and I've been careful to state that they're based on the books as opposed to any of the movies or TV series.
Eric Holder Says He Regrets Lying To A Judge And Saying A Reporter Was A 'Co-Conspirator', But The Law Made Him Do It Oh, I get it. Eric Holder clearly thinks he's Judge Dredd: "I am the law!"
From the article: By January 2014, the download throughput rate during peak use hours for Comcast and Verizon traffic over Cogent’s network was less than 0.5 Mbps, the minimum rate necessary for web browsing and email according to the FCC (Figure 4). When you comment on this site, that is counted as browsing (according to EE, at least), so of course you wouldn't have any issue with Comcast. Comment again once you've failed in watching Nicki Minaj's latest video on YouTube.
So if I rename my neighbour's Wi-Fi hotspot to Porn Palace, would that make her more or less likely to be found guilty of any copyright infringement that might occur on it?
So basically, going by your argument, if 100,000 people who each happen to own a copy of the exact same movie decide to watch it at the same time as each other, then that's a public transmission and money is owed to Hollywood. Yeah, makes perfect sense. /s
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So why do you want a copyright registration?
Only because a registration allows you to have certain advantages at trial owing to the fact that the USCO has an official record of your copyright, which makes it easier to prove certain things to be true, such as ownership and validity. Having a registration also makes litigation more advantageous, and when many people likely intend to infringe your copyright, that is something a copyright owner really wants to have.
FTFY, AC2.
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Is it bad that I recognised only two names from the above list (Ed Felten and Bruce Schneier)?
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Yeah, we're looking at you, Ubis##t. You know, with what you did to Assassin's Creed II and all.
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Re: Sauce for the goose
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FTFY, Jessie.
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My Brilliant Career (1901) - Miles Franklin,
died 1954 Under copyright until 2025
Animal Farm (1945) - George Orwell, died 1950 Under copyright until 2021
The Great Gatsby (1925) - F Scott Fitzgerald,
died 1940 Public Domain since 2011
Tender is the Night (1933) - F Scott Fitzgerald,
died 1940 Public Domain since 2011
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - D H
Lawrence, died 1930 Public Domain from 1981-1996 then since 2001
Gone with the Wind (1936) - Margaret Mitchell,
died 1949 Under copyright until 2020
Between the Acts (1941) - Virginia Woolf, died 1941 Public Domain
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FTFY. You know, truth in reporting and all that. ;)
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Well, I'm not going to blow my own horn and say that they are 'awesome', but I've written two Sherlock Holmes oneshots that you can read here, and I've been careful to state that they're based on the books as opposed to any of the movies or TV series.
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Oh, I get it. Eric Holder clearly thinks he's Judge Dredd: "I am the law!"
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When you comment on this site, that is counted as browsing (according to EE, at least), so of course you wouldn't have any issue with Comcast. Comment again once you've failed in watching Nicki Minaj's latest video on YouTube.
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I do that even when I'm using a landline. OMG, I'M GUILTY OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY EVERYWHERE I GO!
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