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• On the post: House Judiciary Committee Hears Concerns From Silicon Valley About Copyright Law

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 04:42pm

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  If that's the case, then there's not much financial incentive to keep the work under copyright anyway, so why is copyright needed?
  
  And there's no real reason to charge a registration fee. A searchable online registration system can be setup with very little overhead by the government. You could also charge a single fee for a group of works. There's ways to manage this without shouting "what about the starving artists!" It's not about extracting money for copyright - it's about having a way to know what is protected and what isn't.

• On the post: House Judiciary Committee Hears Concerns From Silicon Valley About Copyright Law

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 03:06pm

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  Simply claiming fair use is not the same as actual fair use.
  
  If people like your paintings so much that they want to copy them, then you should be able to command a higher price for your paintings. It's not like copies can replace the original, and sharing might actually increase your reputation and lead to commissions.

• On the post: Police Union Boss: Quentin Tarantino Needs To Patch Up Cop-Citizen Relationships, Not Us

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 12:13pm

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  I'm sure there are plenty of MPAA member execs that are jealous that Tarantino and Weinstein won't play by their rules.

• On the post: Police Union Boss: Quentin Tarantino Needs To Patch Up Cop-Citizen Relationships, Not Us

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 12:12pm

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  Change #2 to 'positive' name recognition.

• On the post: Police Union Boss: Quentin Tarantino Needs To Patch Up Cop-Citizen Relationships, Not Us

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 10:35am

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  Except Tarantino's next movie isn't from Hollywood, and The Weinstein Company isn't a member of the MPAA. It's an indie film.

• On the post: Police Union Boss: Quentin Tarantino Needs To Patch Up Cop-Citizen Relationships, Not Us

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 08:41am

  Re: All Bets are off

  showing a side of the Blue Curtain no-one wants to admit exists.
  
  No, we are admitting it exists, and we want it to change. The police are the ones pretending it doesn't exist.

• On the post: House Judiciary Committee Hears Concerns From Silicon Valley About Copyright Law

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 03:00pm

  That's the most logical and neccesary laundry list of copyright fixes I could possibly imagine (I'd also throw in a reduction of copyright term lengths). You could implement all those changes and it wouldn't harm the the major media corporations in the slightest.
  
  The only reason they fight against these things is because someone's getting paid to fight against these things - not because any of these issues would seriously impact their bottom line.

• On the post: Charity Pops Up Claiming That It Holds The Copyright On Happy Birthday

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 10:29am

  Does this mean they might be able to sue Warners for fraudulently claiming copyright?

• On the post: Police Union Boss: Quentin Tarantino Needs To Patch Up Cop-Citizen Relationships, Not Us

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 08:43am

  Good luck trying to shut Tarantino up. Looks like he's got a good subject for his next film though.

• On the post: TVEyes Hit With Incredibly Restrictive Permanent Injunction By Court

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 07:51am

  I'm so happy that copyright fixed whatever problem needed fixing here. Now somebody's job will be harder to do. The law has won again.

• On the post: One Slightly Less Shitty Quarter For Cable Fuels Renewed Cord Cutting Denial

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2015 @ 12:46pm

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  Broadcast television and radio has thrived for decades while offering their content free to the public. They're even able to compete against cable, despite having their content highly regulated and even censored by the government. In fact, their model is so successful that cable copied it and gave viewers commercials too, even though they are already paying for the content that should be commercial free. Cable companies could shut down tomorrow, and broadcasting will still thrive with their free offerings.
  
  And if the internet is choking, it's only because of the monopoly cable companies hold on the internet are choking it. If they can offer all those channels via cable, they can offer them via internet too.

• On the post: Copyright Terms And How Historical Journalism Is Disappearing

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2015 @ 11:15am

  Re: FAIR USE exception for education, analysis and review

  This isn't about making fair use of existing archives - but the lack of existing archives or a database of multiple archives due to copyright.

• On the post: One Slightly Less Shitty Quarter For Cable Fuels Renewed Cord Cutting Denial

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2015 @ 10:34am

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  I wasn't speaking to the production quality - but that the people involved are doing it for money.

• On the post: One Slightly Less Shitty Quarter For Cable Fuels Renewed Cord Cutting Denial

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2015 @ 09:16am

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  That's today's problem. It will change. It might take a decade or more, but it will change. Once they lose control of the content, they won't have the clout to maintain their monopoly power.

• On the post: One Slightly Less Shitty Quarter For Cable Fuels Renewed Cord Cutting Denial

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2015 @ 09:12am

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  The content being created for cable is all by professionals who do it for a living and probably aren't going to do it for free on Youtube (assuming their audience wouldn't be large enough to generate a profit). I'm not going to cry over their lost jobs, though.

• On the post: Copyright Terms And How Historical Journalism Is Disappearing

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2015 @ 07:48am

  Re: Re: Re: When in doubt, blame copyright

  That's a great theory while the newspaper is still in business. Many newspapers have come and gone in the last century, and it's easy for all that to fall into copyright limbo.
  
  And of course, your idea is completely voluntary and still gives copyright holders complete control over what aspects of history get archives and what doesn't. That's no how culture works.

• On the post: Copyright Terms And How Historical Journalism Is Disappearing

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2015 @ 07:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: When in doubt, blame copyright

  It rarely makes economic sense to retain most of our cultural heritage. That's why we have libraries and museums to archive things - because they aren't tasked with turning a profit.

• On the post: Cable CEO Is Really Pissed That HBO Hasn't Cracked Down On Streaming Password Sharing

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2015 @ 07:33am

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  Book publishers might have said the same thing in the 19th century.

• On the post: One Slightly Less Shitty Quarter For Cable Fuels Renewed Cord Cutting Denial

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2015 @ 07:32am

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  There's a huge difference. Cable companies aren't dumb pipes when it comes to content, because they're the ones paying for content. When cable companies actually become dumb internet pipes, the content creators will have to find another way to get their content paid for. Those internet fees don't pay for content.
  
  If content creators can't make deals with Netflix or Hulu or find a way to offer their content online, they're dead. Good riddance because most of it is crap, but it's going to seriously upset the whole industry.
  
  It will eventually destroy the power of cable companies, because whoever controls the content controls everything. Without that power, they won't be able to hold onto their monopoly power forever.

• On the post: Cable CEO Is Really Pissed That HBO Hasn't Cracked Down On Streaming Password Sharing

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2015 @ 07:55am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Ah

  It doesn't matter if it's piracy or not.
  
  Those 10 or 12 people living together won't be living together forever. They'll each be getting their own accounts after college.
  
  Deny their piracy now, and they'll find other ways to entertain themselves and you've lost them forever.
  
  If I were HBO, I'd be giving college dorms free accounts.

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