And, in a ruling this week, the judge has... ruled against Sirius XM in a manner that may force Sirius and Pandora to eventually have to pay out big. Either that or quit using the recordings so they don't have to pay unaffordable licence fees, meaning people don't hear the music and the rights holders get nothing. Copyright maximalists: they lose even when they win.
Well, according to MGM, their trademark covers all possible fields, and common law trademarks cover what they haven't thought to register even if someone else was using it first. Best get down to the grocery store before they send a C&D to the makers of Rocky Road.
The email I sent: Dear Tim Berners Lee, Why in the ^hell^ are you helping the MAFIAA to feed your baby the poison that is killing it? Please immediately kick the MPAA out of the W3C and fully withdraw your support for Digital Restrictions Malware in HTML5, or there soon won't be a World Wide Web and we'll all be using the replacement that springs up to route around the damage dealt to the Internet. I don't claim to be psychic or anything, but even I can foresee the negative effects caused by a locked down information retrieval system. Yours sincerely, Sheogorath.
Copyright Act of 1976 is what brought automatic copyright. No, it didn't. It really didn't. The Berne Convention Implementation Act 1988 is what brought automatic copyright to the States. Before then, it needed a registration and notice or it was public domain. Wrong again. Before then, you had the UCC so all that a work required was a properly formatted and affixed copyright notice with registration only upon the optional renewal.
Nuh uh. The law in 1967 was that copyright on published works was 28 years from publication with a correctly formatted and affixed copyright notice, with an additional 28 years with the appropriate renewal fee and a copy of the work being sent to the Library of Congress. As others have pointed out, if the guy who shot the footage never showed anybody outside of his friends and family, then he or his heirs still have a legitimate copyright. Why is it always that this Brit knows US copyright law better than so many of the American commenters on this site?
See his hilarious attempts to redefine the concept of free to pretend that U2 weren't actually giving a free album to iTunes accounts for a great example. Well, to be fair to Whatever, those albums weren't given free to users, the price was that once they had a copy in their account, they couldn't delete it. The fact that that has since changed doesn't alter that fact.
The Better Business Bureau gives Roca Labs an F grade due to the large number of complaints, many of which remain unresolved. Really? Or is the actual case that Roca are simply too cheap to buy a better rating from the BBB?
I personally cannot stand beer because I think it tastes disgusting, but I do have to say:
A long time ago, way back in history When all there was to drink was nothing but cups of tea Along came a man by the name of Charlie Mops And he invented a wonderful drink, and he made it out of hops
Oh, he must have been an admiral, a sultan, or a king And to his praises we shall always sing Look what he has done for us, he's filled us up with cheer Lord bless Charlie Mops, the man who invented beer, beer, beer. Tiddly beer, beer, beer The Lord bless Charlie Mops! ;)
Fact #1: Email was created on the ARPANET. Fact #2: Ray Tomlinson invented email and sent the first email. Fact #3: The '@' symbol equals an important step in the invention of email. Fact #4: RFCs demonstrate email existed prior to 1978. Fact #5: CTSS, developed in the 1960s, is email. After all, just because email wasn't called 'email', doesn't mean it didn't exist. To say otherwise is to claim that an American invented closets just because they were called different names in other countries.
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Either that or quit using the recordings so they don't have to pay unaffordable licence fees, meaning people don't hear the music and the rights holders get nothing. Copyright maximalists: they lose even when they win.
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Re: Re: How can this be illegal?
FTFY.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: MGM isn't wrong legally? Really?
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{{Citation needed}}
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Re: But...but it is totally the same I'm telling ya
FTFY?
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Did my email have some effect?
Dear Tim Berners Lee,
Why in the ^hell^ are you helping the MAFIAA to feed your baby the poison that is killing it? Please immediately kick the MPAA out of the W3C and fully withdraw your support for Digital Restrictions Malware in HTML5, or there soon won't be a World Wide Web and we'll all be using the replacement that springs up to route around the damage dealt to the Internet. I don't claim to be psychic or anything, but even I can foresee the negative effects caused by a locked down information retrieval system.
Yours sincerely, Sheogorath.
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Re: Re: Re: Wait, what?
No, it didn't. It really didn't. The Berne Convention Implementation Act 1988 is what brought automatic copyright to the States.
Before then, it needed a registration and notice or it was public domain.
Wrong again. Before then, you had the UCC so all that a work required was a properly formatted and affixed copyright notice with registration only upon the optional renewal.
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As others have pointed out, if the guy who shot the footage never showed anybody outside of his friends and family, then he or his heirs still have a legitimate copyright. Why is it always that this Brit knows US copyright law better than so many of the American commenters on this site?
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Well, to be fair to Whatever, those albums weren't given free to users, the price was that once they had a copy in their account, they couldn't delete it. The fact that that has since changed doesn't alter that fact.
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Just like Home Alone
Hey, gu-uys! I'm a big dumb pothead on my way to a deal, you better come and arrest me!
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Really? Or is the actual case that Roca are simply too cheap to buy a better rating from the BBB?
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Re: Re: Meh, beer, who gives a frak?
A long time ago, way back in history
When all there was to drink was nothing but cups of tea
Along came a man by the name of Charlie Mops
And he invented a wonderful drink, and he made it out of hops
Oh, he must have been an admiral, a sultan, or a king
And to his praises we shall always sing
Look what he has done for us, he's filled us up with cheer
Lord bless Charlie Mops, the man who invented beer, beer, beer. Tiddly beer, beer, beer
The Lord bless Charlie Mops! ;)
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Fact #2: Ray Tomlinson invented email and sent the first email.
Fact #3: The '@' symbol equals an important step in the invention of email.
Fact #4: RFCs demonstrate email existed prior to 1978.
Fact #5: CTSS, developed in the 1960s, is email.
After all, just because email wasn't called 'email', doesn't mean it didn't exist. To say otherwise is to claim that an American invented closets just because they were called different names in other countries.
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