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by mod50ack 3y ago
Correct.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
No, they're talking about the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (1994), which is 100% about foreign works and formalities (copyright notice and renewal requirements). Disney was ''against'' that change because they benef
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by mod50ack 3y ago
> What would your ideal copyright regime look like? I would have to actually write something blog-length about this.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Much like Wikimedia Commons, Archive.org and other open-content sites, we don't have a general global block for our content. But country-level IP geolocation is trivial.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Yes, I'm the one who uploaded it. Right now I'm busy as I have a huge pile of things to process and upload...
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by mod50ack 3y ago
There's no Russian server. The broader IMSLP network has: - Main server: for files thar are PD in the US and Canada - IMSLP-EU: PD-EU and PD-CA, but not PD-US - PML-CA: PD-CA, but not PD-EU or PD-US - PML-US: PD-US, but not PD-CA Anywa
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Well, to be clear, I am mainly a public domain and copyright theory guy. I do keep up to date with everything here. But I also don't write laws; if I did, they would look different. Companies are allowed to train on copyrighted works -
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by mod50ack 3y ago
The problem is not resources. It is an ideological choice. Wikimedia Commons only supports non-proprietary file formats. That means either open formats or formats whose patents have expired. (MPEG-4 Part 2 patents only expired in the US a f
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by mod50ack 3y ago
> Before people cheer too much, surprisingly works can retroactively be snatched back from the public domain and go back into copyrighted state. The United States is decidedly not going to extend copyright terms. The US only very reluct
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Manual coloring is creative. "Restoring" is a bit of an ambiguous term, but generally, it would not be original expression either. Remember, the test for originality has nothing to do with effort. Restoring something to its origin
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by mod50ack 3y ago
It is actually possible. It is possible to transmit information by moving a thing (which is sensed by the optical sensor, as shown here). So we can transmit information by moving spaghetti. It is not a particularly efficient method, though.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Yes. They have every reason to want it. The more raw material isn't covered by copyright, the more they can feed into anything . And that's not even counting the relevance of organizations like the Internet Archive, which was not
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by mod50ack 3y ago
> Reducing the length of existing copyright terms might be considered an ex post facto law. Those are explicitly prohibited by the Constitution. No, that is definitely not an ex post facto law. That's not even close to what the ex p
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Pre-rewrite FF for Android supported about:config. Actually, Fennec F-Droid and the Beta version of Firefox support it just fine, too. It exists in stable FF but is cordoned off for some reason.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Firefox for Android had add-ons before, and even during the past few years, they're fully supported the collection of recommended add-ons, including uBlock Origin from day one. So I don't see how it could be about preventing ad bl
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Historically, yes. Apple used to be a lot stricter about these things. But they have loosened up over the years. Back in the day, they were removing stuff like scripting apps. They sent warnings to the devs of Pythonista, forcing them to do
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Historically, it's gotten much further behind, but they've gotten better recently.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Orion is built on webkit, both on desktop and mobile. It's possible to build WebExt support into a WebKit browser, as they've done. While I definitely prefer FF and Android, I can support the notion of Mozilla integrating extensio
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by mod50ack 3y ago
While I respect Kiwi for implementing extension support, they've often fell far behind the upstream Chromium codebase and they're significantly smaller than even Firefox for Android. So I don't think they'd really be a &
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by mod50ack 3y ago
This is good. Now, all extensions marked by the developer as being compatible with Android are shown on AMO. (If you toggle to Desktop mode, you can actually install any other extension on AMO, too.) The baffling thing is why this took so d
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Yes, of course, the added content would not be in the public domain. Although it should be note that certain changes such as fixing grammatical errors/proofreading would not be considered copyrightable.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
No, there is no requirement under US law to preemptively block non-US users, or under NZ law to block non-NZ users. German courts held that there was jurisdiction over PG because they had content in German, and PG decided to comply. But y
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by mod50ack 3y ago
The 25-year rule is part of an EU copyright directive (which Iceland, as an EEA country, has adopted as well). Also, this isn't technically a copyright, but an equivalent right. (And the right is not 4000 years old.) The EU directive s
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by mod50ack 3y ago
The KJV is protected in the UK by Royal Prerogative rather than by copyright law. The KJV rights are actually older than copyright in the UK. A number of countries have copyright restrictions on things of national significance, etc., howe
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by mod50ack 3y ago
There's none. But the validity of a copyright of a work is dependent on the place in which you're applying the law, not on the place where the author is from (except when applying the rule of the shorter term). Tons of works are i
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by mod50ack 3y ago
There's a distinction between trademark and copyright, and the ability to imply a Disney source and to include Mickey in your work are not controlled in the same way. Using the 1928 Mouse in your work while making it clear your work do
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by mod50ack 3y ago
In Life+50 countries, they'll enter the public domain. In the UK and other Life+70 countries, they won't.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
You can sell public domain materials all you want. And whenever anyone else copies stuff in the public domain, even if they copy it from your copy, they're not infringing copyright.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
I wrote about a related issue a while ago: https://blog.dbmiller.org/2022-04-08-not-that-kind-of-pirate... In effect, anyone on YouTube can upload material and claim that it is their own copyrighted material, even if it&#x2
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by mod50ack 3y ago
> is it Jobs or Woz? I prefer to read it as an homage to Steve-O.

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