http://linuxbusinessnews.sys-con.com/read/80782.htm The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the General Public License (GPL), the great enabler of the open...
Mike Riddle
mriddle@...
May 3, 2005 7:58 pm
49408
This is why God gave us Rule 11: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Wallace-Complaint.pdf Also, Groklaw disclaims affiliation with the gadfly: ...
JFN
jfnbl@...
May 3, 2005 10:19 pm
49409
I find this amazing. I don't recall anywhere in the GPL that specifies that you must or cannot sell the software or any stipulation stating that it must be...
Drew Lehman - DigitaT...
dlehman@...
May 4, 2005 1:31 am
49410
I find this really sickening that there's a programmer with the incredible, overweening personal greed to bring suit against a nonprofit entity attempting to ...
Paul Gowder
paultopia@...
May 4, 2005 2:31 pm
49411
News reports say that today the D.C. Circuit tossed the FCC's Broadcast Flag rules, ruling in the American Library Association v. FCC action, no. 04-1037....
Mike Riddle
mriddle@...
May 6, 2005 3:49 pm
49412
... "In sum, because the rules promulgated by the Flag Order regulate demodulator products after the transmission of a DTV broadcast is complete, these...
James S. Tyre
jstyre@...
May 6, 2005 4:09 pm
49413
What liabilities might arise from the public (via website) transcription of conversations overheard in public places (e.g. airports, restaurants, et cetera)?...
Wes Morgan
wes_morgan@...
May 10, 2005 2:00 pm
49414
full article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050901187.html Government antitrust regulators are investigating the...
Stephen T. Middlebrook
Stephen.Middlebrook@...
May 10, 2005 2:43 pm
49415
... Well, nobody has yet to shut down http:// www.overheardinnewyork.com :-) D ********************************************************************** For...
Derek J. Balling
dredd@...
May 10, 2005 4:44 pm
49416
The only exposure I can think of is invasion of privacy -- false-light variety. If the speaker isn't identified, I think you're fine there. The only other...
JFN
jfnbl@...
May 10, 2005 7:03 pm
49417
... transcription ... restaurants, ... I think so too. And any other privacy-related causes of action would probably fail because people who communicate in...
Scott Ryan
jsryan@...
May 11, 2005 12:49 pm
49418
... Except that your transcription of the conversation does precisely that - fixes it in a tangible medium. I think the better argument against copyright is...
Bruce Hayden
bhayden@...
May 11, 2005 1:28 pm
49419
... But doesn't the transcription have to be made with the consent of the speaker for the speech to be copyrighted? -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve...
Peter D. Junger
junger@...
May 11, 2005 3:00 pm
49420
... Ah, but if the conversation was at any time carried over VOIP, then it would, for a time, be fixed in a tangible medium, eh? ...
Randall
rvh40@...
May 11, 2005 4:39 pm
49421
... Mea culpa here. I had to dig a bit, but in 17 USC 101, the C/R Act states that: 'A work is “fixed” in a tangible medium of expression when its ...
Bruce Hayden
bhayden@...
May 11, 2005 8:00 pm
49422
... Bruce Hayden initially suggested that recording the conversation would itself 'fix' it, so that lack of original expression might be a better rationale....
Scott Ryan
jsryan@...
May 12, 2005 12:25 pm
49423
... I don't know if its urban legend, or if there is a legal basis, but in the security industry there is a widely held belief you can install cameras and...
Sean Donelan
sean@...
May 12, 2005 12:48 pm
49424
... Actually, what I found that I was commenting upon was in response to John's question about authorizing the fixation. And he was right - the fixation has to...
Bruce Hayden
bhayden@...
May 12, 2005 2:13 pm
49425
... I think that what is of most interest here is what if the "conversation" were a recitation---by some modern Homer say---of what would be, were it written...
Peter D. Junger
junger@...
May 12, 2005 2:31 pm
49426
I subscribe only to the digest, so I don't yet know who has replied to my post of this morning. However, in rereading my last two posts at greater leisure than...
Scott Ryan
jsryan@...
May 12, 2005 9:36 pm
49427
... I see no reason that it has to be written down. Fixation if fixation, if in a tangible medium. A digital recording is clearly fixation - much more cleanly...
Bruce Hayden
bhayden@...
May 13, 2005 12:27 am
49428
I _think_ that the second of my two posts yesterday addressed all the questions currently awaiting answers from me; let me know if not. It can't hurt, though,...
Scott Ryan
jsryan@...
May 13, 2005 11:21 am
49429
This is a side issue (thus the new subject heading), but I'm thinking further about the example of an improvised musical performance. If the performance isn't...
Scott Ryan
jsryan@...
May 13, 2005 11:50 am
49430
In response to my question, Carolyn Burke (in a private reply which I ... Whee! I like it. And the first scenario requires only[!] a way to propagate...
Scott Ryan
jsryan@...
May 13, 2005 1:06 pm
49431
... Let's distinguish recording and broadcasting. Recording out of time sequence is the act of capturing information created now from a different time...
Carolyn L Burke
carolyn_burke@...
May 13, 2005 1:48 pm
49432
... Right. So there is no problem if the literary work is written down oe otherwise fixed in a tangible medium of expression with the authority of the author....
Peter D. Junger
junger@...
May 13, 2005 3:02 pm
49433
... We need to be fairly precise here. First, we have the public performance of a work. And in that case, there is no fixation requirement. However, we also...
Bruce Hayden
bhayden@...
May 13, 2005 3:21 pm
49434
I'm enjoying and learning from the thread on recorded conversations. And it all hit home yesterday when I asked an attorney for a copy of a deposition...
Stephen T. Middlebrook
Stephen.Middlebrook@...
May 13, 2005 3:26 pm
49435
... Combining the thought experiments... The audience takes away a mental recording if you will of the performance, private or public. Currently technology...
Carolyn L Burke
carolyn_burke@...
May 13, 2005 3:41 pm
49436
I found the list archives on Yahoo, so now I can read posts in something close to realtime without having to receive them in my mailbox. ... Thanks -- this...
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