"a film which is now out of copyright that has encrypted video files on it" would be rather rare...chrismb wrote:...and what is your interpretation of what these say?...alexjrgreen wrote:Copyright Term Extension Actchrismb wrote:I was referring to the historic meaning of 'patent' rather than the current. Obviously, words can loose and/or take on extra meanings during their life.
Back to the subject of 'ownership' - if I have [bought] a DVD of a film which is now out of copyright that has encrypted video files on it and I use DVD Shrink, or similar, to back up that disc onto a blank DVD, I have a) copied none of the original data (as I have changed it, removing the encryption) nor b) infringed copyright as no-one can now 'own' the original film material. Do I, therefore, now 'own' the specific data on that backup disc, seeing as I have generated it uniquely with my own computer? Indeed, could I even sell it and claim copyright for it?!
Film copyright in the European Union
How very smart people can believe very weird things.
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This is precisely the time at which the mindset of these people turn socialist. When money comes in with no apparent relationship to work, people lose understanding of what money is and how it's created.djolds1 wrote:Both of you are wrong. Wealth condensation is a spontaneous systems process that simply happens. Ability is not a factor, and institutions of power are after the fact structures that evolve to protect the wealth randomly accrued.rcain wrote:...no.MSimon wrote:"Concentration of wealth is a natural result of concentration of ability, and recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and the law... democracy, allowing the most liberty, accelerates it. -- Will and Ariel Durant
Concentration of wealth is a natural result of concentration of POWER (to concentrate wealth)... That is the 'ability', none other.
As one book described it, All socialists movements in history were started and nursed on by the wives and children of wealthy men.
Now that we have a nation full of spoiled rotten rich kids, their lack of being in touch with reality is creating a danger for everyone.
Just an observation.
David
..."Its a Wonderful Life"?alexjrgreen wrote:"a film which is now out of copyright that has encrypted video files on it" would be rather rare...chrismb wrote:...and what is your interpretation of what these say?...
What is the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
His Girl Friday is a delightful movie and is freely available on the 'net. with Cary Grant (Archibald Leach) and Rosalind Russell.pfrit wrote:..."Its a Wonderful Life"?alexjrgreen wrote:"a film which is now out of copyright that has encrypted video files on it" would be rather rare...chrismb wrote: ...and what is your interpretation of what these say?...
Video Here:
http://www.archive.org/details/his_girl_friday
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I have both of these on DVD. And no, they are not copies. I assume that they have the same built in restrictions that all other dvds made by the distributor has.MSimon wrote:His Girl Friday is a delightful movie and is freely available on the 'net. with Cary Grant (Archibald Leach) and Rosalind Russell.pfrit wrote:..."Its a Wonderful Life"?alexjrgreen wrote: "a film which is now out of copyright that has encrypted video files on it" would be rather rare...
Video Here:
http://www.archive.org/details/his_girl_friday
What is the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Oh, you clever sillies!
Clever Sillies - Why the high IQ lack common sense
The results of cognitive stratification and IQ-advertising are therefore bad enough to have destroyed the value of whole domains of the arts and academia, and in the domain of public policy the results have been simply disastrous. Over the past four decades the dishonest fantasy-world discourse of non-biological political correctness has evolved to dominate the intellectual arena of whole nations – perhaps the whole developed world – such that wrong and ridiculous ideas have become not just mainstream, but compulsory.
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Re: Oh, you clever sillies!
Brian H wrote:Clever Sillies - Why the high IQ lack common sense
The results of cognitive stratification and IQ-advertising are therefore bad enough to have destroyed the value of whole domains of the arts and academia, and in the domain of public policy the results have been simply disastrous. Over the past four decades the dishonest fantasy-world discourse of non-biological political correctness has evolved to dominate the intellectual arena of whole nations – perhaps the whole developed world – such that wrong and ridiculous ideas have become not just mainstream, but compulsory.
Great link! A Very appropriate post.