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by bentley 4y ago
At least in the US, Sony v. Bleem established screenshots used for comparative purposes to be fair use.
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If you chmod the epub file to read‐only, does the program lose the ability to annotate or save your place?
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> The story goes that after every plague, "and god hardened pharoah's heart" Not every plague. In the first five plagues, the language “Pharaoh’s heart hardened” or “Pharaoh hardened his heart” is used. As one would expect
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The Christian practice of commonly rendering the Tetragammatron as “LORD” in small caps comes from historic Jewish practice, known from extant copies of the Septuagint (a Jewish translation). The Tetragammatron is important to Christianity.
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Off the cuff, I would say ESV is probably the most mainstream translation that fits your requirements. The translation style attempts to be literal and the source texts are based on the original Greek and Hebrew, not Latin translations. How
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Well, you assumed wrong. To make it clearer, I’ve amended “a desire” to “translators’ desire” in the original comment.
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“Bob Johnson’s fundraising efforts for John Smith’s campaign were motivated by a desire to seat the best candidate as President.” Does that sentence say that Smith is the best candidate? No, it says that Johnson thinks that. Would it be b
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I was describing these people’s motivation. It goes without saying that that’s what they believe.
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A lot of work in Bible translation over the millennia has been motivated by translators’ desire to make the most important document in history, the stuff of salvation and life itself, accessible to the common man. Luckily, there is room in
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Since the article is kind of shallow, here are a few atypical approaches to Biblical translation I’ve found interesting over the years: • The Five Books of Moses, by Everett Fox, who attempts to retain in English the underlying poetry of th
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Maybe you were thinking of How I Met Your Mother ? https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/iiay9/digitally_inser...
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There was a case of it just recently—the Amazon Jack Reacher series was released in February (around tax time) and had a TurboTax ad edited onto the side of a building when viewed in America. https://gizmodo.com/digital-ads-
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I recently migrated my disc collection from cases. Initially I got binder pages like you linked, but I returned them and got paper sleeves instead, because (1) paper cases are cheaper and more compact, and (2) when I put discs in binders, t
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by bentley 4y ago
You’re right that a faithful photograph of a public domain work is not copyrightable in the US. But consider this scenario. You run a website that allows volunteers to upload books with covers derived from public domain artwork. Then you ge
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One Walter C. Pepys, a genealogist, did some research on this. This quote comes from the introduction to the Standard Ebooks edition linked in another comment: “The accepted spelling of the name ‘Pepys’ was adopted generally about the end o
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Amazon decides Kindle speech isn’t worth copyright fight (2009) — https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/03/amazon-backs-off-on-... See also the recent lawsuit covering the other direction, automatic transcri
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Fair enough, but you don’t think that unique characteristic is enough to inspire the name of a character like Stephenson’s immortal wanderer Enoch Root?
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The Book of Enoch certainly has mystique, but even the brief mentions of Enoch in canonical scripture attract a lot of commentary, because they say he never died: “Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.” (Genesis 5:5
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Good reason to get a Yubikey or similar, and use it to generate WebAuthn‐based SSH keys that can’t be used once exfiltrated. (“ssh-keygen -t ed25519_sk”)
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I fear for the day when over‐the‐air broadcasts are no longer a one‐way connection. Apparently ATSC 3.0 has a capability to broadcast webapps that are then run on the receiver side.
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by bentley 4y ago
> Er, if GOG decides to ban you, you'll lose all your stuff on there as well. Whenever I get a game on GOG, I download and keep a local copy of the DRM‐free installer. If my account got banned, I would lose nothing except access to
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by bentley 4y ago
Sotomayor is still on the Court. Barrett replaced Ginsburg, who you’ll notice dissented here. Breyer was also replaced this year (with another liberal). Copyright is one of those issues that is not necessarily clear‐cut between left and rig
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> Roger Foley, who has a degenerative brain disorder and is hospitalized in London, Ontario, was so alarmed by staffers mentioning euthanasia that he began secretly recording some of their conversations. > In one recording obtained by
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In the United States, the copyright on The Hobbit will last until 2033, 95 years after publication—but only the first edition. The second edition with the revised Gollum story was published in 1951, so it will remain copyrighted until 204
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I really don’t understand your justification here. A consequence of Sturgeon† is that most public domain material was unpopular in its day, and only a small fraction of that is relevant to most people in 2022. Why does that imply copyright
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The express purpose of the term BIPOC is to de‐emphasize Asians and other “less‐oppressed” people of color. I won’t bother criticizing the term—such criticisms practically write themselves.
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Václav Havel is really an incredible figure. From a political dissident repeatedly imprisoned for his writings and advocacy, to first President of Czechoslovakia after the fall of communism and the country’s first free elections.
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> So what do you propose, we ban letting people make lists of words? Amazingly, the strawmen keep coming. You think this is a bad list because it has bad entries in it? You must be against the very concept of lists!
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In a sense, I agree with you. But in another sense, I think it’s important to remember that copyright is a restriction on people’s behavior that does not naturally exist, but has been created by law. It’s easier to see the moral case for th
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Easy—thanks to the first sale doctrine, Netflix doesn’t need any deal to rent out DVDs. They can just buy the DVDs off the shelf and rent them out. If renting out physical media were considered a right of the copyright holder under US law,

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