I had a similar reaction. Yes, Some catholic priests but every other kind of priest, minister and rabbi. Plus all the non-religious kinds. Grain of truth stereotypes are not fair.
Although I can understand the shaming effect.
Some child abusers conspire and operate in groups. Which I think is what happened to the Catholic church.
Some got in and then made it easy for others to follow. Eventually they are hiding in all ranks and you can't tell who's just soft and who has a hidden agenda.
I think his image is very powerful and has moved people all over the world. And has allowed them to express something they felt but otherwise had no means of expressing.
Great work!
Recognition is helpful to a good artist and this image has allowed him to begin establishing his career as an artist.
Perhaps, like Banksy, he'll be able to make money with books and his own renditions.
An item isn't copyright if it's only the information contained in a document. A letter sent to someone to inform them of a fact has no implicit copyright. It has no creative element to be protected.
An item isn't copyright if it is a legal document because a legal document is 1. published by being sent or served and 2. it is not being re-published but it's existence is being established by a link. In this case it is simply being exhibited. As such, links to it would come under fair use law.
Fox is just creating another version of a SLAMM lawsuit. They know their reputation is to be the A********** of creation and it is in their very nature to continue being so.
Paypal may close an account but they can't lock up the funds. It's a bank. And very liable for what it does.
I use Paypal to pay for Ebay goods. But I'll go light for awhile and I'll stop making those dollar contributions to charity everytime I pay for something.
When someone libels or slanders you, it's good to take them to court, to establish "fact". If you don't, the slander/libel can be revived years later, when the documentation may have been lost and people less concerned with re-establishing your innocense. Best to have the judgement of a court on your side, for the rest of your life. Your enemies can libel/slander you after you are dead to their heart's content.
Port sites often insert themselves into innocent computer sites. Even a government lab computer was used once.
Porn is big business and Kiddie Porn is sometimes business and sometimes hobby, by pervs who have learned to band together to publish their stuff for their group.
If you want to talk about a group that really collaborates, it's the kiddie porn pervs.
They can't trademark it. It's a commonly used term.
See the "...treatise..." book first published in 1878.
Just because they may have been issued a trademark doesn't mean it's defensible. Trademarks are not examined before issue and no determination is made as to the validity of the claimant's claim. That comes later.
The form they probably filed with Facebook is...Notice of Intellectual Property Infringement (Non-Copyright Claim).
There are several groups using the term and/or title "Urban Homesteading" on Facebook today. I guess it took a short time for the Facebook IP team to weigh in on the subject.
Book titles aren't copyrightable. Phrases short enough to be book titles aren't copyrightable.
Look up 'Urban Homesteading' by the Urban National Coalition, published in 1974. Earliest use of the phrase in a book that I found by looking at the first page of the retrieval of books on google was 'A treatise on homestead and exemption laws' - 1878.
I object to be x-rayed covertly. These vans are using compton effect x-ray. It's a particularly dangerous form of x-ray. And quite likely to cause skin cancers, eye cancers and brain and testicular cancer.
As a physicist, I'm against it. And it is illegal testing on an uninformed population without their consent. I would suspect that the government might get away with it. But I would be glad to help fund a lawsuit against any corporation that used such a device.
As I have gotten older I can see how absolutely scandalous abuse of populations continue. In my childhood, it was common to be irradiated by fallout. To this day, no studies are done to calculate how many additional deaths were caused by fallout from atmospheric testing. I think that we won't see estimates of added cancer deaths made until another fifty years have passed. However, you might note that cancer deaths are decreasing nowadays.
I remember seeing one documentary where a bunch of gov't fools sat around and declared that it was estimated that their tests would cause an added 100,000 infant deaths per year.
What they didn't say was that that was acceptable because no one would ever be able to prove that atmospheric testing would cause the deaths. And the subject population wasn't to be informed.
To Overcast....People have a "personal" right to privacy. Police, at work, don't. When they revert to their private persona, off the taxpayer dollar, they do.
It's mot jury tampering. Court can order the guy to stop, stating he's interfering with the impartiality of jurors in a particular trial and then cite him for contempt of court.
It's probably a stupid judge in bed (figurative sense) with the prosecution.
Naw...Corrections doesn't need your password to check up on your Facebook account. What corrections should be doing is warning you to close out your facebook account. And they should probably give lessons to employees about how to set up and use aliased accounts.
I was a prison librarian and one day one of the inmates ,where I worked (maximum security), sent or had sent a holiday card. Then I had a public phone number and it was relatively easy for this inmate to get my address. Nothing came of it. The inmate was in for burglaries, but I realized that it was a hazard. I was living in a gated community with private police and far outside the cities. If I hadn't been, perhaps I would have felt more vulnerable.
Haven't any of you noticed that some people are getting their head of agency positions by sleeping their way to the top.
I'm not saying this guy did but it has become more common that at any other time in U.S. history. And it's equal opportunity, all kinds of alliances.
So, yes, the people running agencies are now stupider and less competent than every before. They are spaceholders for other interested parties and they are also open to every form of bribery. Although nowadays these are called consultancy fees, board memberships, special investor friends and family deals, special hedge fund investments, and speaking engagement fees.
Usually libraries pay 5 cents a customer to lend out books when they rent the books from vendors. I don't see why they should pay $2 per customer which would be what an e-book would cost to buy and process for use.
Harper will sell a lot less books, other publishers will sell more. There is no real reason to buy e-books from U.S. publishers anymore. Any publisher, in any country in the world, can now prepare and ship an e-book to a U.S. customer or library for the same price.
India, are you listening? India has some of the best technical education in the world, and it's taught mostly in English. China, your market for art books has expanded tremendously. Europe, your architecture and museums are capable of being mined as never before.
Because the absolutely best way of determining what a farm is growing and how the crop is doing is to order satellite photos of the area.
There is no intellectual property right to be enbodied in a photo of a farm.
A farm operates in the public view. Anything that can be seen from the road is available to all.
If they want to build walls around their farms then they can claim trestpass for people who take photos. All they have to do is build the wall as high as they want to prevent people from taking a photo from that height. At some point they could be arguing privacy instead of intellectual property though. One might have a reasonable expectation that people won't ascend to 45 feet above the ground to take pictures. But one should expect that overhead photos are available to anyone with a kite, plane or a satellite.
This Florida law is sort of like that Texas law prosecuting people who said that you could get Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE) from contaminated beef. Some Texas farms then sued Oprah Winfrey to try to prevent her mentioning BSE.
Corrupt politicians are everywhere nowadays. But Florida and Texas politicians have some of the worst reputations .
Better name
CATEAU MEOMONT seems a better name.
TSA and Searches
I had a similar reaction. Yes, Some catholic priests but every other kind of priest, minister and rabbi. Plus all the non-religious kinds. Grain of truth stereotypes are not fair.
Although I can understand the shaming effect.
Some child abusers conspire and operate in groups. Which I think is what happened to the Catholic church.
Some got in and then made it easy for others to follow. Eventually they are hiding in all ranks and you can't tell who's just soft and who has a hidden agenda.
He has given needed expression to many in the world
I think his image is very powerful and has moved people all over the world. And has allowed them to express something they felt but otherwise had no means of expressing.
Great work!
Recognition is helpful to a good artist and this image has allowed him to begin establishing his career as an artist.
Perhaps, like Banksy, he'll be able to make money with books and his own renditions.
Why not make person "friend" instead?
What's the point of handing over passwords and access? If your party wants a look, make one of 'em a friend and there they are.
DMCA Takedown
An item isn't copyright if it's only the information contained in a document. A letter sent to someone to inform them of a fact has no implicit copyright. It has no creative element to be protected.
An item isn't copyright if it is a legal document because a legal document is 1. published by being sent or served and 2. it is not being re-published but it's existence is being established by a link. In this case it is simply being exhibited. As such, links to it would come under fair use law.
Fox is just creating another version of a SLAMM lawsuit. They know their reputation is to be the A********** of creation and it is in their very nature to continue being so.
Bush's Comments
It's a good indicator that Assange could never get a trial, let alone a fair trial in the United States.
Bradley Manning is already being subject to torment and torture.
Paypal is a bank
Paypal may close an account but they can't lock up the funds. It's a bank. And very liable for what it does.
I use Paypal to pay for Ebay goods. But I'll go light for awhile and I'll stop making those dollar contributions to charity everytime I pay for something.
Defamation Lawsuits establish "fact"
When someone libels or slanders you, it's good to take them to court, to establish "fact". If you don't, the slander/libel can be revived years later, when the documentation may have been lost and people less concerned with re-establishing your innocense. Best to have the judgement of a court on your side, for the rest of your life. Your enemies can libel/slander you after you are dead to their heart's content.
Porn Sites
Port sites often insert themselves into innocent computer sites. Even a government lab computer was used once.
Porn is big business and Kiddie Porn is sometimes business and sometimes hobby, by pervs who have learned to band together to publish their stuff for their group.
If you want to talk about a group that really collaborates, it's the kiddie porn pervs.
Can't trademark common terms...
They can't trademark it. It's a commonly used term.
See the "...treatise..." book first published in 1878.
Just because they may have been issued a trademark doesn't mean it's defensible. Trademarks are not examined before issue and no determination is made as to the validity of the claimant's claim. That comes later.
The form they probably filed with Facebook is...Notice of Intellectual Property Infringement (Non-Copyright Claim).
There are several groups using the term and/or title "Urban Homesteading" on Facebook today. I guess it took a short time for the Facebook IP team to weigh in on the subject.
Can't plagarize book titles
Book titles aren't copyrightable. Phrases short enough to be book titles aren't copyrightable.
Look up 'Urban Homesteading' by the Urban National Coalition, published in 1974. Earliest use of the phrase in a book that I found by looking at the first page of the retrieval of books on google was 'A treatise on homestead and exemption laws' - 1878.
So much for the claims of modern plaintiffs.
Groupon
Glad to hear the coupons still have the cash value. I've "lost" enough that I stopped buying them. Now I'll print them up and use the cash value.
Re: Scanner Vans
I object to be x-rayed covertly. These vans are using compton effect x-ray. It's a particularly dangerous form of x-ray. And quite likely to cause skin cancers, eye cancers and brain and testicular cancer.
As a physicist, I'm against it. And it is illegal testing on an uninformed population without their consent. I would suspect that the government might get away with it. But I would be glad to help fund a lawsuit against any corporation that used such a device.
As I have gotten older I can see how absolutely scandalous abuse of populations continue. In my childhood, it was common to be irradiated by fallout. To this day, no studies are done to calculate how many additional deaths were caused by fallout from atmospheric testing. I think that we won't see estimates of added cancer deaths made until another fifty years have passed. However, you might note that cancer deaths are decreasing nowadays.
I remember seeing one documentary where a bunch of gov't fools sat around and declared that it was estimated that their tests would cause an added 100,000 infant deaths per year.
What they didn't say was that that was acceptable because no one would ever be able to prove that atmospheric testing would cause the deaths. And the subject population wasn't to be informed.
Re: Police and Videotaping
To Overcast....People have a "personal" right to privacy. Police, at work, don't. When they revert to their private persona, off the taxpayer dollar, they do.
Not jury tampering. Court can order stop and...
It's mot jury tampering. Court can order the guy to stop, stating he's interfering with the impartiality of jurors in a particular trial and then cite him for contempt of court.
It's probably a stupid judge in bed (figurative sense) with the prosecution.
Re: Passwords
Naw...Corrections doesn't need your password to check up on your Facebook account. What corrections should be doing is warning you to close out your facebook account. And they should probably give lessons to employees about how to set up and use aliased accounts.
I was a prison librarian and one day one of the inmates ,where I worked (maximum security), sent or had sent a holiday card. Then I had a public phone number and it was relatively easy for this inmate to get my address. Nothing came of it. The inmate was in for burglaries, but I realized that it was a hazard. I was living in a gated community with private police and far outside the cities. If I hadn't been, perhaps I would have felt more vulnerable.
Morons as heads of agencies.
Haven't any of you noticed that some people are getting their head of agency positions by sleeping their way to the top.
I'm not saying this guy did but it has become more common that at any other time in U.S. history. And it's equal opportunity, all kinds of alliances.
So, yes, the people running agencies are now stupider and less competent than every before. They are spaceholders for other interested parties and they are also open to every form of bribery. Although nowadays these are called consultancy fees, board memberships, special investor friends and family deals, special hedge fund investments, and speaking engagement fees.
A pox on all their houses!
Good way to disappear
Somebody should tell junior that an author or book unmentioned is soon forgotten.
Usual price of book rental is 5 cents
Usually libraries pay 5 cents a customer to lend out books when they rent the books from vendors. I don't see why they should pay $2 per customer which would be what an e-book would cost to buy and process for use.
Harper will sell a lot less books, other publishers will sell more. There is no real reason to buy e-books from U.S. publishers anymore. Any publisher, in any country in the world, can now prepare and ship an e-book to a U.S. customer or library for the same price.
India, are you listening? India has some of the best technical education in the world, and it's taught mostly in English. China, your market for art books has expanded tremendously. Europe, your architecture and museums are capable of being mined as never before.
Except for satellite photos?
Because the absolutely best way of determining what a farm is growing and how the crop is doing is to order satellite photos of the area.
There is no intellectual property right to be enbodied in a photo of a farm.
A farm operates in the public view. Anything that can be seen from the road is available to all.
If they want to build walls around their farms then they can claim trestpass for people who take photos. All they have to do is build the wall as high as they want to prevent people from taking a photo from that height. At some point they could be arguing privacy instead of intellectual property though. One might have a reasonable expectation that people won't ascend to 45 feet above the ground to take pictures. But one should expect that overhead photos are available to anyone with a kite, plane or a satellite.
This Florida law is sort of like that Texas law prosecuting people who said that you could get Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE) from contaminated beef. Some Texas farms then sued Oprah Winfrey to try to prevent her mentioning BSE.
Corrupt politicians are everywhere nowadays. But Florida and Texas politicians have some of the worst reputations .