Using your numbers granted the city would be up $250k but there's no indication that this would be earmarked to combat graffiti. However, the citizens of the city are down $1m. Since have proved willing to spend $2 each on something to help the city, why not make it free and have a "donate money to the graffiti cleaning effort". That way you would get the whole of the $1m to fight graffiti.
As it stands it's crowd funding with a 75% tax rate which is pretty poor.
Just remember to register it with the copyright office.
Then sue them for placing copies of your picture on their email server, on the local machine of whoever received the email, on their email backup servers ...
They wouldn't aquire the copyright, as that would involve too much paperwork. More likely they'd set up the AAAA (Anonymous Artists Association of America) which would collect all the payments for the purpose of distributing to the owners. No need for any paperwork (other than lawsuits to infringing freeloaders)
My problem isn't so much music from the last 10-20 years, it's the inane talk and adverts that fill a lot of "music" radio stations. Means I don't listen to much new music so I end up not discovering any. I probably should sign up to something like spotify as I'm sure there's new stuff that I will like. However I'm going through a classical phase at the moment which largely sidesteps the requirement to research new music.
Given the propensity for Hollywood to churn out a mix of remakes and adaptions, sounds like there could be an argument that they're also not promoting the progress.
And don't get me started on that rubbish which passes for music these days!
In the UK at least the Sale of Goods Act means that you can generally return items that aren't of suitable quality or don't work as intended. You can't return a game on grounds of quality because you didn't like it however.
If the game doesn't work in your computer and it was sold as working then you can return it. This is presumably why they publish minimum spec requirements on boxes these days. I would guess that if you cannot play the game despite meeting the requirements on the box you would have a genuine complaint for a refund from the retailer.
Not sure about problems with ubisoft servers though - how often/lengthy would they have to be before you were able to return? What sort of uptime would be considered appropriate for a £50 game?
Definitely good to avoid liability on creators for what users choose to do. With scope creep almost anything can be used for illegal purposes. Starting with the household brick, used in smash and grabs, through getaway cars and on up to turing machines.
Fancy shutting down a competitor who is doing something different to you? Find a crime which used one of their products and accuse them of aiding.
He kind of does have a point, after all HTC named all of their other phones after partnerships.
- For the Mozart and Schubert they travelled back in time to collaborate with classical composers. And of course the Mondrian was styled by the painter himself
- They got movie tie ins for the (I am) Legend, the Incredible(s) and the Buzz (Lightyear).
- They even dabbled with making phones out of alternative materials for the Gold and the Sapphire, although the Espresso was not well received. And that's before we even get onto the Stallion, that was messy.
How were we to know that for this phone HTC had instead just picked a random word, just like how every other company names every other product in the world.
Agreed - if the public feel that taxation is too high, and representation is focusing on corporate interests there could well be a revolt. Stranger things have happened!
First though you need some sort of a slogan regarding the desired link between taxation and representation. Any ideas?
As you comment, the other side who are fighting SOPA/PIPA could be receiving money from internet companies etc.
However the "other side" I'd like to see is what the contributions are from big media to the neutrals and anti-SOPA/PIPA politicians. A lot of the amounts in the list above are fairly flat (especially around 250k for PIPA support). Is it just that there's a fairly blanket contribution of around 250k from big media?
One way to show this could be to show the average big media contribution to a politician in each house. Does anyone know that?
And under product liability law in most states, when there's physical harm to person or property, everyone involved in the manufacturing and distribution of that product is legally liable.
I think the link isn't quite the right one - it goes to a section on liability where the product is defective which isn't quite the point you're making?
In any case for non-defective robots I would hope that legal suits focus more on the user than the manufacturer. If they didn't I'm amazed that you are still able to buy guns, cars and even hammers in the US - after all they are surely used in causing harm every year.
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Seriously? They give out the Daily Mail to people on entering the UK?
I would say that more than soft porn, the Daily Mail is known for it's hatred of immigrants - so handing it to potential immigrants is pretty funny :)
generalisation ahoy!
"the iPhone wielding, app downloading demographic that is ... the least interested in fighting graffiti"
[citation required]
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Using your numbers granted the city would be up $250k but there's no indication that this would be earmarked to combat graffiti. However, the citizens of the city are down $1m. Since have proved willing to spend $2 each on something to help the city, why not make it free and have a "donate money to the graffiti cleaning effort". That way you would get the whole of the $1m to fight graffiti.
As it stands it's crowd funding with a 75% tax rate which is pretty poor.
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Just remember to register it with the copyright office.
Then sue them for placing copies of your picture on their email server, on the local machine of whoever received the email, on their email backup servers ...
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They wouldn't aquire the copyright, as that would involve too much paperwork. More likely they'd set up the AAAA (Anonymous Artists Association of America) which would collect all the payments for the purpose of distributing to the owners. No need for any paperwork (other than lawsuits to infringing freeloaders)
crass?
realizing just how crass that looked?
Er ... don't you mean "realizing just how crass that was"?
Re: Re: Does Hollywood promote the progress?
Dumbstep more like! :P
My problem isn't so much music from the last 10-20 years, it's the inane talk and adverts that fill a lot of "music" radio stations. Means I don't listen to much new music so I end up not discovering any. I probably should sign up to something like spotify as I'm sure there's new stuff that I will like. However I'm going through a classical phase at the moment which largely sidesteps the requirement to research new music.
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Particularly as I've heard women are paid to be in films, whereas guys (at least at the start) pay for the privilege. Supply and demand apparently.
Is the adult film industry really just a large brothel, and movies are adverts? Content is advertising after all!
Does Hollywood promote the progress?
Given the propensity for Hollywood to churn out a mix of remakes and adaptions, sounds like there could be an argument that they're also not promoting the progress.
And don't get me started on that rubbish which passes for music these days!
Re: Re: No Return Policy Promotes Piracy
In the UK at least the Sale of Goods Act means that you can generally return items that aren't of suitable quality or don't work as intended. You can't return a game on grounds of quality because you didn't like it however.
If the game doesn't work in your computer and it was sold as working then you can return it. This is presumably why they publish minimum spec requirements on boxes these days. I would guess that if you cannot play the game despite meeting the requirements on the box you would have a genuine complaint for a refund from the retailer.
Not sure about problems with ubisoft servers though - how often/lengthy would they have to be before you were able to return? What sort of uptime would be considered appropriate for a £50 game?
(IANAL)
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Besides six figures in yen is around $20 ...
illegal uses?
Definitely good to avoid liability on creators for what users choose to do. With scope creep almost anything can be used for illegal purposes. Starting with the household brick, used in smash and grabs, through getaway cars and on up to turing machines.
Fancy shutting down a competitor who is doing something different to you? Find a crime which used one of their products and accuse them of aiding.
quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I own my own mobile and data.
However Google and the UK government own me, along with minority interests from HTC, T-Mobile, Facebook, Blizzard Activision and Techdirt ...
hold off on the US crowdsourcing
Don't start checking up on filesharing coming out of RIAA, MPAA or BigMedia yet. Wait for SOPA/PIPA to be passed first.
Then run the scan and report them for filesharing.
I do love the smell of irony in the morning. Smells like ... karma.
Re: Re: Erm what about ticket stubs?
I think his point was to trace where the tickets of the 24k people inside came from. Looking at the collected stubs should tell you that.
Whether there were even more tickets sold to people who didn't turn up is a separate question.
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He kind of does have a point, after all HTC named all of their other phones after partnerships.
- For the Mozart and Schubert they travelled back in time to collaborate with classical composers. And of course the Mondrian was styled by the painter himself
- They got movie tie ins for the (I am) Legend, the Incredible(s) and the Buzz (Lightyear).
- They even dabbled with making phones out of alternative materials for the Gold and the Sapphire, although the Espresso was not well received. And that's before we even get onto the Stallion, that was messy.
How were we to know that for this phone HTC had instead just picked a random word, just like how every other company names every other product in the world.
[sent from my Motorola RAZR. Ow]
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It keeps going down on me!
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Agreed - if the public feel that taxation is too high, and representation is focusing on corporate interests there could well be a revolt. Stranger things have happened!
First though you need some sort of a slogan regarding the desired link between taxation and representation. Any ideas?
Only one side?
As you comment, the other side who are fighting SOPA/PIPA could be receiving money from internet companies etc.
However the "other side" I'd like to see is what the contributions are from big media to the neutrals and anti-SOPA/PIPA politicians. A lot of the amounts in the list above are fairly flat (especially around 250k for PIPA support). Is it just that there's a fairly blanket contribution of around 250k from big media?
One way to show this could be to show the average big media contribution to a politician in each house. Does anyone know that?
not defective?
And under product liability law in most states, when there's physical harm to person or property, everyone involved in the manufacturing and distribution of that product is legally liable.
I think the link isn't quite the right one - it goes to a section on liability where the product is defective which isn't quite the point you're making?
In any case for non-defective robots I would hope that legal suits focus more on the user than the manufacturer. If they didn't I'm amazed that you are still able to buy guns, cars and even hammers in the US - after all they are surely used in causing harm every year.