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• On the post: Sony Music Claiming Beyonce's Official YouTube Channel Violates Copyright?

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 01:04pm

  Re:

  Insomniacs unite!!

• On the post: Sony Music Claiming Beyonce's Official YouTube Channel Violates Copyright?

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 01:01pm

  Re: Re: Treating the symptoms, and not the disease.

  gee, Mike, I've never seen ANYTHING on this site in that regard.............................................................................................................

• On the post: Sony Music Claiming Beyonce's Official YouTube Channel Violates Copyright?

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 12:59pm

  Re: Treating the symptoms, and not the disease.

  "better setup like the European variant"
  
  yeah cuz that's always worked in the past.... Newsflash, this country exists in the first place BECAUSE Europe is FUBAR. Always has been; nothing's changed.

• On the post: Sony Music Claiming Beyonce's Official YouTube Channel Violates Copyright?

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 12:55pm

  Re: Could be

  While I wouldn't go so far as to put anything on it (pun), I wouldn't be surprised to find that is the case.

• On the post: Sony Music Claiming Beyonce's Official YouTube Channel Violates Copyright?

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 12:53pm

  Re: Re:

  Ahh sweet, sweet irony....

• On the post: Sony Music Claiming Beyonce's Official YouTube Channel Violates Copyright?

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 12:52pm

  Re: Erm...fail

  Uh...yeah...erm...what's legal in one country isn't necessarily legal in another.
  Also, one country's copyright laws don't necessarily have anything to do with another's; some countries don't even HAVE copyright laws.
  
  So...how about file your own post under "Missing the Mark fail"

• On the post: If Entire Books Can Be Sampled, Why Not Songs?

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 12:46pm

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  I agree. But think of all the poor copyright lawyers who would all be out of work!

• On the post: If Entire Books Can Be Sampled, Why Not Songs?

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 12:40pm

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  "simply stating "the work of the following authors was used in this book" is not crediting the authors."
  
  See I've never understood why not. You are blatantly saying "This isn't my work. These aren't my ideas."
  Plagiarism (as above) is trying to pass it off as your own work, when, clearly, you're not doing that.
  
  Citing EVERY SINGLE reference is just tedious bullshit to allow the original artist the ability to say "See? they used THAT part!"

• On the post: If Entire Books Can Be Sampled, Why Not Songs?

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 12:33pm

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  "especially in the age of the remix. Which is stealing!"
  
  a couple of definitions for the ignorant (rhetoric intentional).
  Steal. verb. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
  
  Plagiarize. verb. to take and use ideas, passages, etc., from (another's work) by plagiarism.
  
  Plagiarism. noun. the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work.
  
  A key word that people get caught up by is "unauthorized". What does that mean? To answer that question you must furst ask another: "Whose work are you copying?". The answer to that is: the artist's. So, get a hold of the artist somehow (not hard to do these days) and ask permission. Ding, you are now authorized.
  Also, if you acknowledge that a song is not your orignial work, but a remix of said artist's original work...
  IT IS NOT THEFT.
  IT IS NOT PLAGIARISM.

• On the post: Must Read: CCIA Sets US IP Czar Straight On Intellectual Property

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 12:08pm

  Re:

  Do you fully understand the gravity of the concept upon which you, seemingly, just stumbled?
  
  Or are you a good little sheep who bashes people without realizing that you actually agree with them?

• On the post: Must Read: CCIA Sets US IP Czar Straight On Intellectual Property

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 11:54am

  Re: the RIAA, MPAA and the Screen Actors Guild filing

  "or, should we call it the health insurance industry wellbeing bill"
  
  LOL. well put.

• On the post: Woman Spends $17,000 Of Her Own Money To Stop SEO From Being Trademarked

  

  DJ ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2010 @ 06:28pm

  Re:

  Woot for restating repetitive redundancy.

• On the post: As Expected Digital Economy Bill To Be Rushed Through With No Debate

  

  DJ ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2010 @ 06:24pm

  Hmmmm let's see.

  "So, screw democracy when you have [an agenda] to [further]. Screw basic civil, human and privacy rights, if it helps the bottom line of a few [politicians] too stubborn to [listen to their constituents]."
  
  Yep, that sounds about right.

• On the post: Google Street View Criticized For Showing 'Secret' SAS Base… That Has A Sign Viewable From The Street

  

  DJ ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2010 @ 02:04pm

  Re: this is normal for all militaries...

  Not on public land, though. The only places where photography is prohibited are actually ON bases/posts; some prohibit photography on the whole base, others in only select places.

• On the post: Google Street View Criticized For Showing 'Secret' SAS Base… That Has A Sign Viewable From The Street

  

  DJ ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2010 @ 02:01pm

  Re: yeah why add more publicity to this?

  but they're so GOOD at hissy fits.
  Don't steal their thunder

• On the post: Google Street View Criticized For Showing 'Secret' SAS Base… That Has A Sign Viewable From The Street

  

  DJ ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2010 @ 01:27pm

  ?Streisand effect?

  Kind of....

• On the post: GoDaddy Stops Offering Chinese Domains

  

  DJ ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2010 @ 02:00pm

  I'm still baffled....

  ...that nobody bothered to take notice of the fact that China is a COMMUNIST COUNTRY! Of course they're going to want this kind of control over their people.
  
  Oh wait, I forgot that communism is the new way to go....Too bad EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE of it in history has ended in genocide of the citizens.....

• On the post: Full ACTA Draft Leaked… EU Wants Injunctions Against The Possibility You Might Infringe

  

  DJ ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2010 @ 01:56pm

  Re: Re: Re: "This clause would outlaw Google"

  Admittedly, I don't have the time or expertise to peruse the document However, the following phrase, ALONE, is reason enough to make said assertions.
  
  "Each Party shall provide that its judicial authorities shall have the authority, at the request of the applicant, to issue an interlocutory injunction intended to prevent any imminent infringement of an intellectual property right."

• On the post: Student Punished For Facebook Study Group Files $10 Million Lawsuit

  

  DJ ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2010 @ 12:34pm

  Re: Settle

  The only problem I would foresee in that solution would be the grade correction. Unless he has kept every bit of work he did for that class.... and even then, can he prove that it was actually completed during the class? But the rest, I agree with.

• On the post: Student Punished For Facebook Study Group Files $10 Million Lawsuit

  

  DJ ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2010 @ 12:15pm

  Re: Re:

  ...but he makes a good point, nonetheless.

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