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by bdowling 3y ago
Derivative works like translations, sequels, TV/movie adaptations, etc.
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by bdowling 3y ago
I think you're missing the point. None of the works would have been produced in the first place if there wasn't the possibility of making a return on the investment in time, energy, etc.
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In some ways, writing a novel (or producing certain types of works) is like buying a lottery ticket. Most of the time it will be worth nothing. But if it is a winner, then the buyer would like to be able to cash it in. If, on the other hand
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by bdowling 3y ago
Makers of derivative works such as foreign language translations, sequels, and movie adaptations could presumably hold monopolies on those.
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Under the proposed system, he probably would never have written anything because the most likely outcome is that he would gain nothing even if his works are successful.
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The author could be dead and his family could be impoverished, or maybe his best novels were his earlier ones. Should publishers make tons of money off his earlier, better works while his family starves? Also, copyright isn’t just the origi
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by bdowling 3y ago
It’s fine that society should benefit, but why should the publishers who pay the author nothing benefit the most? (Edit: Not just republishers of the original work, but also those making derivatives like translations, sequels, or movie&#x2F
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by bdowling 3y ago
Here's an even more problematic example: 1. Author publishes a dozen novels over the first 20 years of his/her career. All of them are good, but none of them sell well. 2. Author does not pay the copyright renewal fees because the
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For reference, https://youtu.be/TZt-pOc3moc
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It depends. If you are a recognizable figure who people with ill intent are trying to find, then public knowledge of where and when you walk your dog is a big problem. On the other hand, if there’s no way to connect a person to a license pl
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by bdowling 3y ago
> In her latest book …, Anya von Bremzen goes on a multi-year quest … In the process, she “crushes” bowls of noodles with a ramen otaku in Tokyo, learns to make pasta puttanesca in a former brothel in Naples, and drinks ceremonial cacao
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by bdowling 3y ago
I think you may be confusing the etymology of a word, i.e., where it came from, with its meaning as used by the speakers of a language. Here's a definition from a commonly cited online dictionary of American English: > eugenics >
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That is a strange example, because usually we don’t put people in prison for accidents unless there is specific type of gross negligence (e.g., drunk driving) or malicious disregard for life and safety. > Anderson decided to plead guilty
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After a few hundred of hours of gameplay the electrical contacts inside the stick become worn out. Once that happens the stick becomes unpredictable and calibration won't help.
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> forcing a bit of transparency by publishing 990s (the nonprofit yearly tax filing). https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/205...
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The word eugenics has significant negative connotations that are probably not going away any time soon. So if you continue to use that word for its broader meaning, you will continue to run into trouble.
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by bdowling 3y ago
> Eu-genics is literally good-birth. This is a reverse straw man argument [0]. You present your position as something easy to defend (good birth, choice of mates, good diet, etc.), even though some parts of it (forced sterilizations, gen
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by bdowling 3y ago
Being a conspiracy theorist doesn’t make you wrong, it means you believe that the likely motivations or interests of various parties are likely the actual cause of the observed behavior, even when there is no proof. Here, news outlets proba
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by bdowling 3y ago
Some children are just smarter, more athletic, or better looking than their siblings.
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> why be a moderator for a for-profit company if you aren't being paid? They like the power of being a moderator and smacking down people who break the rules. Usually they also like to bend the rules themselves to push a personal ag
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by bdowling 3y ago
> The more trolling they enable, the more money they get. How do trolls pay anything to the USPTO? Usually the patents a troll tries to assert against others are purchased from others, often failed tech startups. (Note: People often forg
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by bdowling 3y ago
> “Barbie Girl”, the song that actually created the Rogers Test to begin with The Rogers Test comes from Rogers v. Grimaldi , 875 F.2d 994 (2d Cir. 1989), which asked whether an Italian film named “Ginger and Fred” infringed a trademark
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by bdowling 3y ago
> what it means to use "a trademark as a trademark" The alternative is called “nominative use”, which is to use the mark of another to refer to the other’s goods or services. For example, a cola manufacturer can write in an adv
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by bdowling 3y ago
Exactly. Many cases before the Supreme Court are about whether a type of case should be in court at all or should get to be heard by a jury. The decisions do not dictate the outcome, but have to do with whether the lower court made a mistak
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Aside : There is a specific clinical diagnosis associated with this kind of obsessive perfectionism, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive–compulsive_personali... OC
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Consensus means that people agree; it doesn’t mean that they are right.
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You’re wrong about what the author meant, but you’re right about patents. Patents are indeed written very carefully to meet the validity requirements but not “leak anything”, because disclosed but unclaimed material is a dedication to the
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From the linked article, " Dahl’s publishers decided that 'to those growing up in a racially mixed society, the Oompa-Loompas were no longer acceptable as originally written.'" (emphasis added).
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My favorite term like that was “scientific consensus”. I used to point out that up until the 17th century the scientific consensus was that the Sun revolved around the Earth. I would get nothing but blank stares in response. It turns out th
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The "in patents" modifies "available", not "details". Had he wanted to state that the patents were carefully written, he would have written "which", not "and".

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