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• On the post: Suicide Girls Reappropriate Art That Appropriation Artist Richard Prince Appropriated — At A 99.9% Discount

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 29 May, 2015 @ 07:37am

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  Some of us get it.

• On the post: Rosie O'Donnell's Ex Accuses Her Of Copyright Infringement… For Posting Photos Of Their Daughter To Instagram

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 29 May, 2015 @ 08:40am

  Before the internet copyright law mostly concerned businesses and professionals. The law was never designed or intended for the general population. It was supposed to keep businesses from stealing from each other.
  
  Now copyright is everyone's concern, because everyone can copy just by typing CTRL-C and everyone can publish just by clicking "Upload". The current law is completely inadequate for the world we live in.

• On the post: Suicide Girls Reappropriate Art That Appropriation Artist Richard Prince Appropriated — At A 99.9% Discount

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 May, 2015 @ 02:39pm

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  Then just donate the money directly. There's a big donate button on their homepage.

• On the post: Richard Prince Continues To Push The Boundaries Of Copyright Law In Selling Other People's Instagram Selfies

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 May, 2015 @ 12:11pm

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  Good thing for artists there's a lot of rich morons in the world, then. Of course, I wish I had bought Rothko's or Duchamps' works back when they were cheap.

• On the post: Richard Prince Continues To Push The Boundaries Of Copyright Law In Selling Other People's Instagram Selfies

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 May, 2015 @ 11:03am

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  So you're not one of those people paying $90K for it.

• On the post: Richard Prince Continues To Push The Boundaries Of Copyright Law In Selling Other People's Instagram Selfies

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 May, 2015 @ 11:02am

  Re: Cant they under sell him?

  No, you devalue his work by selling the same thing for $200,000. Good luck getting someone to pay that though, esp. since it's already been done.

• On the post: Richard Prince Continues To Push The Boundaries Of Copyright Law In Selling Other People's Instagram Selfies

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 May, 2015 @ 10:59am

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  the thing is, people would still buy Prince's work over yours, because it's his work. He's the one adding value to the image, not the image itself, or who created the image.
  
  The only way to beat him is to sell yours for more than he's selling his.

• On the post: Richard Prince Continues To Push The Boundaries Of Copyright Law In Selling Other People's Instagram Selfies

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 May, 2015 @ 10:57am

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  Whether the artist can create something that you would deem "artistic merit" is absolutely and completely irrelevant.

• On the post: An Innocent Pressure Cooker Pays The Price In The War On Terror

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 May, 2015 @ 09:46am

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  Luckily the police only had to walk from the dining area to the kitchen. They found the suspicious evidence quite delicious.

• On the post: An Innocent Pressure Cooker Pays The Price In The War On Terror

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 May, 2015 @ 07:33am

  Re: Not an overreaction...

  I agree that this article is rather hysterical, esp. considering the last paragraph of the article:
  
  

  Three people were killed and more than 260 others wounded in April 2013 when two pressure-cooker bombs were set off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

  
  
  The real question is was the food truck owner compensated for his destroyed property? That's where the true injustice lies.

• On the post: Suicide Girls Reappropriate Art That Appropriation Artist Richard Prince Appropriated — At A 99.9% Discount

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 May, 2015 @ 11:06am

  If anyone pays Suicide Girls (EFF) $90 for that image, it'll be because of the value added to it by Richard Prince - not the value added to it by Suicide Girls. So he ultimately did them a favor by appropriating their work and they're capitalizing on that rather than suing.

• On the post: Sherlock Holmes And The Case Of The Never Ending Copyright Dispute

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 26 May, 2015 @ 09:28am

  Re: Trademark

  Even more new works might be created if everything were in the public domain and litigation free.
  
  I don't see how a trademark here is encouraging anything here, and I'm ignoring the fact that the purpose of trademark is not to encourage the creation of new work but to protect consumers from brand confusion.
  
  The estate has simply gotten used to big movie studios paying up to use Sherlock Holmes, and the studios don't question it because paying up for rights is simply how they do business. They can't imagine a world where everyone isn't paying up for the rights to everything ever created, which is why they can't fathom the internet.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 24 May, 2015 @ 04:24pm

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  Thanks for reminding me how awful that movie was.

• On the post: Godzilla Sues The Godzilla Of Copyright Trolls, Voltage Pictures, For Copyright Infringement

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 21 May, 2015 @ 03:27pm

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  Nicolas Chartier isn't talent. Nicolas Chartier hires talent.

• On the post: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood Insists His Emails With The MPAA Are Super Secret

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 20 May, 2015 @ 08:43am

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  But that's how it works. They let you know when your term is over they'll have a cushy job waiting. After that, they'll do whatever they need to do to please you and keep that opportunity open. You might even do the same if your job was always hanging on the next election.

• On the post: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood Insists His Emails With The MPAA Are Super Secret

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 May, 2015 @ 05:35pm

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  If he doesn't get reelected, I'm sure he's got a job waiting at the MPAA. A politician's got to have a backup plan.

• On the post: President Obama Rolls Back Some Police Militarization… Police Flip Out

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 May, 2015 @ 05:32pm

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  We have to use the National Guard for something, after all.

• On the post: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood Insists His Emails With The MPAA Are Super Secret

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 May, 2015 @ 12:41pm

  Re: Re: Re: Why does Hollywood hate Google?

  Hollywood, radio, and television were largely in control of the nation's entertainment for more than 100 years before the internet, and that kind of control is not easily let go (not to mention the deep deep pockets of cash that it generated).
  
  They are using their money and influence to stop something that gives everyone the same powers they have enjoyed for a century. The real problem is they didn't grab control of the internet from the start (and they could have through regulations) because the internet was thought of as a communications platform, not an entertainment platform.

• On the post: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood Insists His Emails With The MPAA Are Super Secret

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 May, 2015 @ 10:06am

  Re: Why does Hollywood hate Google?

  It's because Google makes so much more money than they do, and because they think Google is the internet (or that the internet is only used to watch their movies or listen to music). They either want the government to force Google to share its income with them, and/or they want to be able to dictate search results in their favor.
  
  It's not about hate. They simply want money and control.

• On the post: 9th Circuit Judge Slams His Colleagues For First Amendment Failings In Waiting So Long To Fix Cindy Garcia Ruling

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 May, 2015 @ 12:32pm

  Hollywood couldn't have written a better speech.

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