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• On the post: We Shouldn't Call Michelle Obama's (And Joe Rogan's) Proprietary Exclusive Audio From Spotify A 'Podcast' Any More

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2020 @ 01:37pm

  Re: Silo Value

  The problem with a decentralized internet is that it takes a lot of effort to make money with it.

• On the post: That Coronavirus Image Is Public Domain, But That Won't Stop Getty From Trying To Sell You A $500 License To Use It

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2020 @ 07:51am

  Re: Copyfraud

  Copyrfraud is claiming copyright over something that someone else holds the copyright too, or claiming copyright on something in the public domain. ANYBODY can sell public domain image. You can sell them. Getty can sell them. I can sell them. It happens all the time. It is not even wrong or unethical. Shakespeare? Dickens? Old silent movies? Civil War photos. Someone is out there selling them.

• On the post: How Years Of Copyright Maximalism Is Now Killing Pop Music

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2020 @ 12:55pm

  Re: The History of Music

  Sonny Bono was responsible for the 1996 copyright extension, not the original 1976 disaster.

• On the post: Josh Hawley Continues To Pretend That Silicon Valley Isn't Innovative

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2019 @ 02:44pm

  Re: Re:

  Considering Hawley's from Missouri, I'll win that office pool.

• On the post: John Oliver Robocalls Ajit Pai For Not Doing More To Thwart Robocalls

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2019 @ 09:59am

  Re: Re: Goad News

  The government exists to protect consumers from business (and business from consumers) so if there is an abuse either way, who else has a fundamental duty and responsibility to deal with that abuse aside from the government? It is effectively harassment.

• On the post: Do People Want A Better Facebook, Or A Dead Facebook?

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2019 @ 09:53am

  Re: Useful

  Google + is dead. https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133?hl=en&authuser=0

• On the post: Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama's Last-Minute Drone Strike Reporting Requirements

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2019 @ 02:05pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: An "acquired taste"

  It's still a horrible comparison. You're judging direct and indirect deaths over 80 years to the direct deaths caused by WWII over 5 years, and then saying the U.S. is as bad as the Nazis. It's okay to say the CIA is bad without trying to make a bragging game out of it or comparisons to Hitler, and the U.S. was pretty good at killing people before the CIA even existed.

• On the post: Producer Scott Rudin Going Around Killing Off Licensed Community Theater Shows Of To Kill A Mockingbird

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2019 @ 02:22pm

  Re: Re: UPDATE: Rudin Allows Local Theaters to Perform Sorkin's

  Sounds more like they get to back out of some really bad publicity (and potential boycott) AND collect the royalties on all those regional shows. You really think they're putting shows up on Broadway for ideological reasons? Broadway is all about making money.

• On the post: Producer Scott Rudin Going Around Killing Off Licensed Community Theater Shows Of To Kill A Mockingbird

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2019 @ 02:17pm

  Re: Re: UPDATE: Rudin Allows Local Theaters to Perform Sorkin's

  Yeah, they're not flying to New York to see To Kill a Mockingbird. They're going to see Jeff Daniels and other movie stars.

• On the post: Producer Scott Rudin Going Around Killing Off Licensed Community Theater Shows Of To Kill A Mockingbird

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2019 @ 02:15pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  It's actually set in the 1930s.

• On the post: Sony Using Copyright To Take Down Its Own Anti-Piracy Propaganda

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2019 @ 07:27am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Judging from the history of ASCAP licensing, they'll eventually just demand every website get a license whether they host content or not - "just in case." and take you to court if you don't comply.

• On the post: FCC Shuttered, Ajit Pai Forced To Cancel CES Trip Because The US Government Is a Hot Mess

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2019 @ 09:54am

  Re: work?

  Here's the FCC organization chart:
  
  https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/fccorg-12102018.pdf
  
  They do more than you ever imagined.
  
  Just testing all new electronic devices to ensure they meet FCC regulations and don't disrupt radio communications sounds like enough to employ 1,000 people.

• On the post: Copyright, Culture, Sharing, Remix… And A Congresswoman Dancing As A College Student

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2019 @ 07:39am

  Re: Re: "someone else's stuff" is not your "own s

  Creating something does give you total rights over it. The right to publish or not to publish.
  
  Once you publish it, it becomes a matter of copyright law, and you do not have total control over it. You are submitting the work to fair use, and any rights you retain are specifically outlined in the law and are limited.
  
  If you want total control, don't publish.

• On the post: While Everyone's Busy, Hollywood & Record Labels Suggest Congress Bring Back SOPA

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2018 @ 02:46pm

  I think it's time that TechDirt retired or at least updated the whole MPAA/Boston Strangler bit. I mean, do you have to keep referring to some 40 year-old comment every time the MPAA is mentioned? Have they not done more dastardly things in the last 40 years?

• On the post: Marsha Blackburn Continues To Be Rewarded For Screwing Up The Internet

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2018 @ 02:06pm

  Re:

  Then maybe Tennessee voters should tell her to stop messing with the internet and focus on what they care about. She's tried to cause more damage to the internet than most other politicians.

• On the post: Marsha Blackburn Continues To Be Rewarded For Screwing Up The Internet

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2018 @ 02:04pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Some are more corrupt than others.

• On the post: Marsha Blackburn Continues To Be Rewarded For Screwing Up The Internet

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2018 @ 02:00pm

  Re: Re:

  Giving corporations complete control of the internet is getting rid of it.

• On the post: Artist Inspired By Andy Warhol, Creates Truly Astounding Work… Ends Up Giving It Away Over 'Copyright Infringement'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2018 @ 10:08am

  Re: Wow. "Astounding." The treasures we've lost. What a shame.

  I'm sure you would have said the exact same thing about Warhol in the 60s.

• On the post: Compromise Music Modernization Act Will Bring Old Sound Recordings into The Public Domain, Tiptoe Towards Orphan Works Solution

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2018 @ 07:54am

  Re: "the purpose and intent of copyright law" is protect Creators,

  Everything you say here is wrong.
  
  --- "the purpose and intent of copyright law" is protect Creators"
  
  Have you read the constitution? The purpose and intent is pretty clear.
  
  --- "What ALWAYS matters is the protection, otherwise there's ZERO incentive to create new."
  
  Nobody's saying there shouldn't be protection. The question is how much is beneficial to society.
  
  --- "Much of what's "created" now doesn't even need to be "incentivized""
  
  So you're saying there's no need for copyright? And why are "created" and "incentivized" in quotes?
  
  --- it's proper to direct whatever income to more or less "rightful" owners,
  
  Many of these works don't have rightful owners, which is why they're not available.
  
  --- rather than allow undeserving grifters to use them for free.
  
  You mean grifters like Walt Disney? Do you not have a clue how the public domain benefits contemporary culture? "Grifters" using the public domain for free is one of the primary things keeping those old works relevant.
  
  --- old works being in public domain while still have commercial value is just wrong.
  
  The vast majority of old works don't have any commercial value. Just because some old movies and few books and songs are still popular doesn't mean everything ever created will make money in the marketplace, or that if it can't make money that it's not still valuable.
  
  --- NOT languishing in haphazardly funded random places run by one eccentric.
  
  I didn't realize all of the world's public domain was restricted to one person. I thought works were in housed in libraries and archives around the world.

• On the post: Reddit Ignored A Year's Worth Of User Warnings About Iranian Propaganda

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2018 @ 01:59pm

  Re:

  Politics and religion have always been taboo subjects, and for the very reason that it's almost always divisive.
  
  Unfortunately on the internet, and esp. with social media, people feel fine saying things they would never say in front of people.

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