Yeah, cause the patents that Apple is using to sue people over are brand new and innovative, and not overly broad at all. I mean slide to unlock?! holy crap, where do they come up with this. Bouncing screen animations, Open as, those guys are brilliant
Universal's employee who sent the DMCA "had no idea what to look for," that still might not be enough to show subjective bad faith
How is having someone look for something, when they don't know what to look for, not bad faith? The only way it could be worse I'd think is if they didn't have anyone look at it (which they automated takedowns do).
Sorry I sold you this fake painting, but I asked someone on the street if it was legit and they said they thought so...
So they don't know when things aren't infringing, they can't just throw videos through a filter to see if they are actually legal content, but Google should be able to do that, right?
They're the ones that are fighting to keep artists in control.
That's funny bob. They don't give two shits about the artists. They want to keep control, they want money, they give/let the artist keep as little money/control as possible.
Also, where is it that they are giving away free copies? The only free copies Google gives away are of books in the public domain. Being able to see a couple pages does not constitute giving away the book.
The publishers were tiny compared to Big Search and they were still able to stand tall like David and insist that Goliath must pay them a fair share for their hard work.
Stand tall by waiting 7 years before agreeing to what Google originally proposed?
Pretty much every day if you look at the 'Ending Soon' Section, there are always multiple music kickstarters (I just looked and counted 6 successfully ending in the next 10 hours) that will shortly be successfully funded. And kickstarters main focus isn't on music as with some of the other crowdfunding sites.
that MOST of the content on those sites is copyrighted, and it's their only actual draw
And you are full of shit, but that's not new. There are plenty of artists who would like to argue with you about that. There was plenty of draw to MU other than piracy, that's not to say there wasn't a lot of it on there, but it was not the only reason to go there. And as others said, how is making money theft?
If you replace publisher with IEEE the AC reply to my comment on the Google scanning article seems to apply here as well.
The thing is that publishers don't care if something is good for them - they care if it's good for someone else. If someone else makes money, then that someone should have to pay the publishers.
I wish I were making this up, but that's essentially what a publisher told me at a copyright hearing - they didn't care if a technological innovation made them more money - if the company responsible for that innovation is making money, they should have to pay the publishers whatever the publishers want.
But, but, Piracy, Big Search, stealing, blargg...Google isn't doing this out of the goodness of there heart, blah blah blah...Oh, the AAP is ok with it, well then, there's probably nothing wrong with Google scanning the books then
it recognizes Google’s ability to do something about it. It was not a silver bullet, and there’s much more to be done
Didn't we say that by Google doing this would lead to the *AAs continuing to try and shape more and more of Google, and that they'd point to this as the example saying that clearly it can be done.
How about the DOJ not even being able to legally serve? Seizing the money from them, trying to claim Dotcom couldn't use a good lawyer. Wanting to destroy the evidence on the servers. Saying they can't go after Mega without SOPA then taking them down 2 days after SOPA blackouts, etc fail by DOJ
That’s why Hollywood is partnering with Silicon Valley and others — from YouTube to Facebook to Netflix to Roku
Really, I thought they were doing everything possible to kill off Youtube, Netflix and Roku? Ridiculously high licensing fees, cable companies trying to encrypt all TV so that nothing but a cable box will be able to view it...I think Youtube they might finally be accepting, but they've fought quite hard against it (including one hand putting up videos and the other taking them down). But yeah, they really want these techs to succeed...
They succeeded in making Dotcom look like the good guy and the DOJ like a bunch of idiots. And they did succeed in taking it down now for almost a year despite there numerous failures.
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Re: Well, in this case, the reason is NO ACTUAL HARM.
But the rest of the world does not have the video to play all they want.
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Bad faith
How is having someone look for something, when they don't know what to look for, not bad faith? The only way it could be worse I'd think is if they didn't have anyone look at it (which they automated takedowns do).
Sorry I sold you this fake painting, but I asked someone on the street if it was legit and they said they thought so...
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That's funny bob. They don't give two shits about the artists. They want to keep control, they want money, they give/let the artist keep as little money/control as possible.
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Re: Is Google going to make the FULL works FREELY available?
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Re: Et tu, copyright deniers?
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Re: Et tu, copyright deniers?
Stand tall by waiting 7 years before agreeing to what Google originally proposed?
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Kickstarter as an example (again)
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Re: "File sharing" sites making money IS piracy!
And you are full of shit, but that's not new. There are plenty of artists who would like to argue with you about that. There was plenty of draw to MU other than piracy, that's not to say there wasn't a lot of it on there, but it was not the only reason to go there. And as others said, how is making money theft?
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The thing is that publishers don't care if something is good for them - they care if it's good for someone else. If someone else makes money, then that someone should have to pay the publishers.
I wish I were making this up, but that's essentially what a publisher told me at a copyright hearing - they didn't care if a technological innovation made them more money - if the company responsible for that innovation is making money, they should have to pay the publishers whatever the publishers want.
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But, But...
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As predicted
Didn't we say that by Google doing this would lead to the *AAs continuing to try and shape more and more of Google, and that they'd point to this as the example saying that clearly it can be done.
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Crappy Partners...
Really, I thought they were doing everything possible to kill off Youtube, Netflix and Roku? Ridiculously high licensing fees, cable companies trying to encrypt all TV so that nothing but a cable box will be able to view it...I think Youtube they might finally be accepting, but they've fought quite hard against it (including one hand putting up videos and the other taking them down). But yeah, they really want these techs to succeed...
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