The Supreme Court refused to grant cert for the “oh the places you’ll boldly go” case.
In my view the 9th circuit court of appeals got it right. The work appears to take two properties the author does not own and created an unauthorized derivative work of both. In doing so it’s creating a product that usurps the market for both properties, doesn’t appear to be particularly transformative (inventive sure, imaginative sure, but transformative? The pictures are near carbon copies of the dr Seuss books other than the derivative works of Star Trek) and it’s obviously commercial…
Anyone who creates original content should want property protected. Not just to protect the property itself, but so there’s a level playing field between small creators. If bob creates a new IP and has to compete with Jane is unlawfully piggybacking on a billion dollar IP, then it’s clear that bob is going to have to work way harder than Jane to reach the same level of success. Meanwhile, Tim who is a creator of middling success may face sufficient usurption of the market for his work that instead of being able to sustain himself from his work he needs to keep working a day job because of all the copycats using his property.
I’m amenable to the idea that there needs to be more limited restrictions on intellectual property than exist such as having it lapse within a creators lifetime, but I’m not for throwing the baby out with the bath water.
In my view the 9th circuit court of appeals got it right. The work appears to take two properties the author does not own and created an unauthorized derivative work of both. In doing so it’s creating a product that usurps the market for both properties, doesn’t appear to be particularly transformative (inventive sure, imaginative sure, but transformative? The pictures are near carbon copies of the dr Seuss books other than the derivative works of Star Trek) and it’s obviously commercial…
Anyone who creates original content should want property protected. Not just to protect the property itself, but so there’s a level playing field between small creators. If bob creates a new IP and has to compete with Jane is unlawfully piggybacking on a billion dollar IP, then it’s clear that bob is going to have to work way harder than Jane to reach the same level of success. Meanwhile, Tim who is a creator of middling success may face sufficient usurption of the market for his work that instead of being able to sustain himself from his work he needs to keep working a day job because of all the copycats using his property.
I’m amenable to the idea that there needs to be more limited restrictions on intellectual property than exist such as having it lapse within a creators lifetime, but I’m not for throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Frankly, the whole "use your name and face" thing is bullshit and the people who advocate for it online need to an hero themselves. The Internet isn't a nice place. It has the best people but it also has the worst. People who want to hurt you for no reason. People who think it's fair game to kill you because you disagreed with them. For those people, you should absolutely stay anonymous! Pseudonyms are a good thing, it lets people say what they want without fear of being unfairly attacked outside the marketplace of ideas by people who can't win otherwise.
For those using their real names, more power to you, we all have different thresholds of tolerance and our lives are structured differently so some people are better suited to putting their face next to controversial opinions than others.
For those using their real names, more power to you, we all have different thresholds of tolerance and our lives are structured differently so some people are better suited to putting their face next to controversial opinions than others.
@geotechland I wonder if you can change an IP address yet, or if you still need to open a windows 3.1 program for that.
@FediFollows In my opinion, this should be the future of computing. Everyone should have one.
Have any of you guys used software for work that's so undeniably bad that you're sitting there going "How are these guys still in existence as a company?" but it's the most popular X on the market?
@selea Unfortunately, western governments and media contributed to this by explicitly lying every step of the way when it was convenient.
A little honesty would have gone a long way.
A little honesty would have gone a long way.
@selea Using pseudoscientific crap to placate the masses is not a historical oddity for the CCP.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53094603
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53094603
@Synclair Anyone who trusts science doesn't know the point of science.
If you have faith in science, that's not science, that's a religion you created that pretends to be science.
If you have faith in science, that's not science, that's a religion you created that pretends to be science.
@coyote @grumbulon Absolutely isn't evil. Honestly, the whole "cultural appropriation as evil" thing is actually racist nonsense made by people who are looking to be mad about things that aren't worth being mad about.
I can 100% guarantee that the Korean family running the Chinese food restaurant didn't build their shop thinking that 95% of customers should be excluded, and I'm certain that if some white idiot came in and started trying to chase off all their non-Chinese customers the cops would be called pretty quickly. The point of opening the restaurant was to make money from anyone who wants Chinese food.
It's a philosophy that can only lead to the opposite of what anyone who wants progress would want -- a ghettoization of culture and an isolation of different people from different things just because someone with a different skin color discovered or invented it.
I can 100% guarantee that the Korean family running the Chinese food restaurant didn't build their shop thinking that 95% of customers should be excluded, and I'm certain that if some white idiot came in and started trying to chase off all their non-Chinese customers the cops would be called pretty quickly. The point of opening the restaurant was to make money from anyone who wants Chinese food.
It's a philosophy that can only lead to the opposite of what anyone who wants progress would want -- a ghettoization of culture and an isolation of different people from different things just because someone with a different skin color discovered or invented it.
@grumbulon Chinese Restaurants are appropriation. They don't sell Chinese food there, they sell Chinese-American food where the Chinese immigrants took American cooking techniques and foods and created a new cooking style.
I'm seeing article after article saying "people have savings since the pandemic! It sure would be a good thing if everyone spent all those savings right now!"
Man.... Save your money. Don't hold it as cash, put it into some sort of asset that'll appreciate because stagflation is coming and it'll be hard if you pissed your only savings away because some journalist told you to.
Man.... Save your money. Don't hold it as cash, put it into some sort of asset that'll appreciate because stagflation is coming and it'll be hard if you pissed your only savings away because some journalist told you to.
For the record, memes be damned -- GameStop is a shitty scuzzy company that deserves to die and it doesn't matter how much capital they raise it will because their business model relies on an obsolete method of selling products.
Seattle Pride charges white people 'reparations' fee while 'BIPOC' attend for free
https://t.co/1NNCAppA8o
Historical note: Legal slavery in America and Washington state at no point in history coexisted.
https://t.co/1NNCAppA8o
Historical note: Legal slavery in America and Washington state at no point in history coexisted.
@lobsters "sometimes".
Not every time someone connects a couple wires to a lightbulb is someone engaging in electrical engineering, and not every time someone slams out some shitty code is someone engaging in software engineering.
Not every time someone connects a couple wires to a lightbulb is someone engaging in electrical engineering, and not every time someone slams out some shitty code is someone engaging in software engineering.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/u-s-lawmaker-wants-biden-to-take-unilateral-action-on-reopening-border-with-canada-1.5476832
Democratic congressman upset about excessive coronavirus restrictions...
Welcome, dipshit. Why do you want to kill grandma?
Democratic congressman upset about excessive coronavirus restrictions...
Welcome, dipshit. Why do you want to kill grandma?
@boilingsteam One of my peeves with windows at the moment. And their new stuff isn't any better -- You still can't consistently set an IP address from the settings app. It's been 6 years, heads should be rolling.