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On the post: Record Labels, Once Again, Freak Out About Anyone Making Their Content Useful

AG Wright ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2011 @ 07:54pm

Stealing

But if the major record labels aren't getting paid then their content is being STOLEN. We all know that this is true because the have told us so often.

On the post: DailyDirt: Biodegradable Materials Are Good For… Cars?

AG Wright ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2011 @ 06:07pm

dandelions

If you think they make a nice salad you've never tried them. Blech bitter.

On the post: RIAA Calls 4th Amendment Passe: Pushes For Warrantless Searches

AG Wright ( profile ), 18 May, 2011 @ 08:34am

Bill of Rights

Come on people that whole Bill of Rights thing is so 18th century. It's been ignored over and over in US history and we're still here as a nation.
A steady erosion of rights in the USA is so much a necessity in our fight for profits and against terrorism, this is partly about terrorism you know and think of the children. The pedophiles are involved here somewhere, I just know it.

On the post: You Shouldn't Need An Excuse For Having Fun & Creating Something

AG Wright ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2011 @ 04:04pm

Making music

I've been making music for over 40 yrs. and I can say that it is universally fun to get together with talented people and make music.
It can be pulling out an old chestnut like "Life is Like A Mountain Railway" or making up something new. Either way it can be "new".
Those particular creative people will never be together at this place in their lives. Whatever they decide to record will be different than they would have played at any other time in their lives. Thus it will be new.

On the post: Tolkien Estate Strikes Again: Forces Summer Camp To Change Name

AG Wright ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 12:10pm

A quick Google search

1,910,000 results (0.23 seconds) on rivendell. It includes schools, behavioral clinics, wineries, bicycles and theater ensembles.
Sounds like a good place for a class action suit to shut the Tolkien estate down permanently.

On the post: Happy Days Cast Not So Happy: Suing CBS & Paramount For Missing Royalties

AG Wright ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 07:40am

The rules

By the rules as they are written the money is owed to these performers. Their likeness and performances ARE getting Paramount money. Since I doubt that that money is going to stockholders, it's amazing how the big TV/movie companies never make any money on their productions, it might as well go to the actors.
I'll admit that the rules as they are right now are crazy but as long as the game is being played by those rules they might as well be applied to everyone. Unfortunately the only people that will get rich will be the lawyers but hey sharks have to eat too.

On the post: Guy Sues Over 'Da Da Da Da Da Da…. CHARGE!' Jingle He Might Not Have Written

AG Wright ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2011 @ 10:22am

Trumpet players

OK I played trumpet in Jr. High and high school back in the 60's and early 70's. We played stuff like that all the time. It's sort of implicit in the instrument since those types of bugle calls are all played on one fingering.
Some people have more nerve than brains.

On the post: Rosetta Stone Says Google Is A 'Gateway For Criminals'; Urges Congress To Make Google Liable For Infringement Via COICA

AG Wright ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2011 @ 12:28pm

Who has the best lobby RS or Google

I have a feeling that if it comes to a contest between behind the scenes lobby power that Google can whip Rosetta Stone quite easily.
Google is a service that millions of people depend upon, maybe billions.
Rosetta Stone has a service that hundreds to thousands of people depend on.
If Google feels threatened they can buy Rosetta, shut them down and not even notice the spare change.

On the post: Tolkien Estate Says Just Mentioning Tolkien Infringes; Tolkien Censorwear Appears In Response

AG Wright ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2011 @ 09:34am

Tolkein

I can't help but to want to have the word Tolkein in every post I do for a period, /. sig, FaceBook post and everything else. Nah, too much trouble.

On the post: ICE Finally Admits It Totally Screwed Up; Next Time, Perhaps It'll Try Due Process

AG Wright ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2011 @ 02:32pm

Proper place for ICE

Personally to me it just again shows that the proper place for ICE is in your cold drink of choice.

On the post: The Process Of Laying The Very First Transatlantic Cable

AG Wright ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2011 @ 03:05am

What's really sad is the part where, after they get through, the engineer who's in charge burned out the cable with too much current.

On the post: 82-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Demands Apology From Airport Security Over Screening

AG Wright ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2011 @ 11:22am

I can't help but think that a bit of profiling would have been relevant here.
How many octogenarians have blown up airliners?

On the post: Guy Sued Over Trademark On 'Fruit Of The Month Club' Turns Around And Sues Others Over 'Cheese Of The Month Club'

AG Wright ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2011 @ 06:22am

I can't help but think about the cheese of the month club that my parents were customers of when I was in high school back in the 60's.
I think that there is a problem with the whole trademark system when this can even be litigated.

On the post: Military Threatens To Court Martial Anyone Using USB Drives Or Other Removable Media

AG Wright ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2010 @ 04:05am

This has been discussed for years

Making it impossible to use removable media on SIPPERNET computers was being discussed 5 years ago when I was working for the Arkansas National Guard.
Among the several reasons that it wasn't then was the simple fact that sometimes you NEED to move data for presentations and such.
It seems from what I have read that there are many more people with access to it now than then.
Also to the people who were commenting on locked access and such. Yes these computers are usually locked up and if not locked are required to be guarded by a human being at all times that they are available. It could be quite a hassle.
Fortunately at the help desk level all I ever saw was the requests for service. My job was just to pass them on to appropriate authority.

On the post: Which Is Better: A Tiny Number Of Creators Hitting The Jackpot… Or Many Making A Living Wage?

AG Wright ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2010 @ 05:38am

Reply to MrWilson

What you don't understand is that there are millions of people that make music just for the sake of doing it. If all of the recording executives were to evaporate tomorrow we wouldn't stop making music. We wouldn't even slow down enough to notice.
The recording industry is a way of delivering music to the public. That's all. Given the salaries and costs ingrained in that method of music delivery it's an incredibly inefficient form of delivery.
I can take a guitar, a computer and a bit of equipment costing less than $1000 and make an album. I can make copies of that album for less than $1.00 and give them to my friends. I can even distribute the resulting songs on a web site for free, as long as I meet the draconian laws on what songwriters need to be paid.
The web site costs a little but can probably be paid for by asking for donations.
A performer can write, perform and share their music for relatively little money and much more efficiently without a recording company.

On the post: FDA Tells Novartis That 'Facebook Sharing' Widget On Its Site Violates Drug Ad Rules

AG Wright ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2010 @ 04:53am

Difference between flacks share and user share

Perhaps the difference is that when a person that uses a drug or service and a paid flack.
The flack has no particular expertise other than a job at a drug company. It's advertising driving the drug company. Not science or even testimonial, which we all know can be suspect.

On the post: From Magazines To Restaurants… Conde Nast Licensing Magazine Names For Restaurants

AG Wright ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2010 @ 04:08am

Trouble

I'm afraid that name would get me in trouble with the health department.

AG

On the post: For Small Authors, eBooks Are Much Better Than Being Printed On Pulp

AG Wright ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2010 @ 03:31am

Or take a look at the Baen books site

It's mostly science fiction and fantasy but they have a huge and ever changing library of freely down loadable books.

On the post: Music Publishers Lawsuit Against Yahoo, Microsoft, Real Tossed For Failing To Prove They Hold Copyrights

AG Wright ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2009 @ 05:04pm

Mechanical reproduction rights

I could be wrong here but I think that when an artist records the music of a composer they pay the composer, through some licensing authority or the other, sometimes the Harry Fox Agency, for the mechanical rights to the song.
That means they can record it and sell the recordings.
I am not a lawyer and this could be complete BS. If you want to make recordings of copyrighted material find and hire a good entertainment lawyer.

AG

On the post: No Smiling On Your Drivers License. It Makes Our Software Sad

AG Wright ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 02:48pm

Uh nope

Actually Arkansas doesn't give a shit what you do when you get your picture taken. You can't wear dark glasses or a hat that hides your eyes but I've had my glasses on for my pictures for the last 12 years or so and mine are trifocals with a heavy prescription.

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