Posts by Kyle Matthews
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As I saud upthread, copyright violation is more like jumping the fence at the swimming pool than theft.
Also not something that everyone can do 20/50 etc years after the swimming pool was built.
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1. The face is familiar but you can't put a name to it
2. The face is unfamiliar (looks like a stranger)I'm absolutely the 1st. I often go to a pub quiz, and the other week they put up a photo of Rosa Parks and the date of her getting arrested. "Who is this woman?"
As a student of the New Left and the Civil Rights movement, I 100% knew who that was, in the same way I recognised the photo of Bill Ayers that they put on the TV news last night. I could give my quiz partner a dozen facts about her, what she did, when she died etc etc etc.
Do you think I could bring her name out of my brain? Nope.
Same with that famous faces quiz. Apart from Blair, I recognised all the faces. But for Travolta I had to put 'Grease', and for Robin Williams I put in 'Mork!'. Knew who they were, but the names just wouldn't come.
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I said "in the main" because there are always exceptions, but it was pointed out up-thread that exceptions like Rowling (and Dickens was bigger in his day than Rowling in hers) don't count.
No doubt Rowling, who often has her copyright infringed, and on occasion pursues legally those that do so, will be delighted to know that she doesn't count.
It doesn't particularly matter which author, artist etc you choose for your example, the laws have to apply for all, big or small.
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And (he says preparing to draw a long bow) didn't the games at the Colosseum start as some kind of thing to distract the public from something.
So your suggestion is, instead of bonus points, we throw some Christians into the middle of the game? (against the Lions?)
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The further away you get from the inception of a creative piece (in the main), the less relevant it usually is to its cultural environment.
I think any decent English teacher (not my strong subject) could look at Shakespeare, Dickens, heck, a lot of classical literature and say that it's still very relevant to the current cultural environment.
And surely if there's a 'social good' argument for limiting the length of copyright, it's because the content _is_ relevant to the time it's released from copyright. If it has no relevancy, what's the point of releasing it?
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I can understand why National has reduced the kiwisaver contributions. Not for me, but I can see that as a National thing.
Taking away tax breaks for R & D? That I both 1. don't get, and 2. dont' see why National has put it in. It'll turn off a moderate portion of the business sector right after they've finished going "great" after reading about more tax cuts.
I would have thought the R & D tax breaks National would have been right behind.
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Oh, shit. Please ignore my last par
I was just thinking... umm, no you've missed my point there Craig. [Click for page 8] Ah :)
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My mother was so bad at calling me and my siblings (one brother, one sister) each other's names, that she gave up and just started calling us all 'Fred".
So all three of us respond to Fred. Collectively we're "the Freds". So over the weekend you possibly could have heard a conversation in my parent's kitchen along the lines of "Can you go see if the Freds want red or white wine with dinner?".
Old (middle when it started if the truth be told) age. Very sad.
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No it doesn't.
Oooooh yes it does (ad infinitum).
But Labour really have lost that whole "National party aren't willing to tell us what their policy is" thing that they were running with a couple of months ago, by not having any out themselves.
Labour has released more National Party policy this election cycle, than they've released their own policy.
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why does a creative property lose its value after a certain period of time yet a physical property maintains it?
That wasn't what I was saying at all, in fact I've come down more on the side what you've said here.
What I was saying is that "Mickey Mouse is about to come into public domain" is no reason to extend copyright. If copyright gets extended it should be done for good reasons, across all copyright holders and considering wider society. If legislators keep doing it simply because Mickey Mouse keeps getting older, then shame on the US legislators.