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• On the post: 'Piracy' That Creates Amazing New Music

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2014 @ 01:01pm

  People who say remixing isn't an art are insulting an awful lot of professional sound engineers and sound designers.

• On the post: Only Surviving Recording Of The Very First Superbowl Is Because A Fan Recorded It, But You Can't See It, Because Copyright

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2014 @ 02:05pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  90%? Try 99.9.

• On the post: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp: Still Failing To Understand The Internet After 20 Years Of Flops

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2014 @ 02:02pm

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  They believe they are providing Google with content and Google is profiting off their content. Google isn't sharing the money with them, and they feel entitled to it. Simple as that.

• On the post: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp: Still Failing To Understand The Internet After 20 Years Of Flops

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2014 @ 01:01pm

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  News in the United States has been divided into the "mainstream media" and everything else (i.e. sources not controlled by Newscorp).
  
  Anyone that relies on mainstream media for news deserves their ignorance.

• On the post: Only Surviving Recording Of The Very First Superbowl Is Because A Fan Recorded It, But You Can't See It, Because Copyright

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2014 @ 10:07am

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  Grammar Nazis are the worse form of troll.

• On the post: Only Surviving Recording Of The Very First Superbowl Is Because A Fan Recorded It, But You Can't See It, Because Copyright

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2014 @ 08:38am

  Re: Wait, what?

  On top of that... how is this a creative work in any way?

• On the post: David Letterman Mocks The Eagles Over Refusal To License Their Music

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2014 @ 08:02am

  Re: Re: Re: Just Curious

  Nope. That would still be considered synced to video since it's broadcast through the television medium.

• On the post: Brands Use Trademark To Get Toronto To Pull Clever Anti-Litter Campaign Just Because

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2014 @ 07:49am

  Re: Re: Re: PR for Idiots: Extend leg, pull out gun, aim at foot, pull trigger

  Permission no, but money yes. They could have approached these companies to pay for the entire campaign.

• On the post: New Study Confirms: Internet Is Contributing To Massive Profit Levels At Legacy Entertainment Firms

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2014 @ 12:52pm

  the only thing surprising here is that one of the studios actually lost money one of those years.

• On the post: David Letterman Mocks The Eagles Over Refusal To License Their Music

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 01:59pm

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  They have a right to complain, and they have a right to take legal action. That's what copyright is.

• On the post: David Letterman Mocks The Eagles Over Refusal To License Their Music

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 01:57pm

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  For starters, it's rarely the artists making these negotiations. It's one big corporate music label negotiating with a big corporate television network. Each is trying to get the best deal from the other one, which includes limiting use of the music as much as possible by only allowing it for broadcast but not for sale (which up through the 80s was almost unheard of for TV shows, largely because there was no efficient means to package that much material).
  
  In other words, it's all about how middle men divide up culture into as many little pieces as possible so they can sell it off a piece at a time. You would think the right to use a song in a TV show would extend to all uses of that TV show into the future, but sadly those are different pieces with different price tags.
  
  And the big corporations like it this way because it keeps little people out of their business and gives them an excuse to hire lots of lawyers and middle men.
  
  It wasn't a big deal when the big corporations controlled the means of distribution, but now the internet lets anybody distribute music and video, and that's why copyright is such an issue for them. They can't do anything without the proper contracts being signed, but the little people are going around publishing material left and right.

• On the post: David Letterman Mocks The Eagles Over Refusal To License Their Music

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 01:13pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Just Curious

  For a long time it was WKRP and Wonder Years, but it seems those issues have been resolved. I'm sure there are many others.

• On the post: David Letterman Mocks The Eagles Over Refusal To License Their Music

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 12:37pm

  Re: Just Curious

  Anyone that records a video of someone playing a song or puts a song in their video needs a sync license unless they can make a case for fair use, which can only be determined in a court of law.
  
  That's why Youtube is becoming a graveyard of taken down videos.

• On the post: More Yahoo vs. The NSA: Government Tried To Deny Standing, Filed Supporting Documents Yahoo Never Got To See

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 09:55am

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  This could only work if EVERY business did it and did it at the same time. Otherwise the government would hit each individual business hard (and go after the individuals running that business). Only a collective and very public action against government intrusion would be effective.
  
  And don't forget that up until the 2000s, big business was routinely painted as evil. Nobody would trust them when they complained about what the government was doing. Now suddenly Yahoo has turned all Kim Dotcom and become heroes thanks to the government's malevolence.

• On the post: David Letterman Mocks The Eagles Over Refusal To License Their Music

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 01:24pm

  "Play it and see what happens."
  
  Most likely nothing after that exchange, but unfortunately few people have Letterman's bankroll to so brazenly break the law.
  
  And really, Dave, "Life in the Fast Lane" is your song, isn't it?

• On the post: California Continues To Be Anti-Innovation: Tells Ridesharing Services That Carpooling Is Illegal

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2014 @ 12:19pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: It is not ridesharing, it is transport for hire

  Apparently convicted felons should never be given a job where they interact with another human being.

• On the post: Another Actor From 'Innocence Of Muslims' Sues Google Over Copyright Claim… Via Same Lawyer As Cindy Garcia

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2014 @ 12:16pm

  Re: If it were titled

  From what I've seen of the film, no it wouldn't.

• On the post: California Continues To Be Anti-Innovation: Tells Ridesharing Services That Carpooling Is Illegal

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2014 @ 07:39am

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  That's because building the box is the purpose of these organizations.

• On the post: Study: Cable Cutting To Continue, Especially As Millennials Age

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 06:41pm

  It's a simple numbers game. Once the spreadsheet shows that sports can make more money offering their own subscriptions rather than offering subscriptions through cable, they'll ditch cable in a millisecond.
  
  I think the biggest impediment to all this has been getting streaming and online content onto people's big screens instead of their computer screen, and they're finally making that happen.

• On the post: U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 08:39am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Free is in the eye of beholder

  By your logic, torrenting isn't free either because you have to have pay for a computer and an internet connection and it requires bandwith, and you have to give your attention to ads on the torrent sites.
  
  But yeah, let's keep redefining what you mean by free until it only fits the narrow logic you need to make your pointless point that Mike endorses piracy.

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