Posts by Rich Lock
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Scott - that's what I thought. But Kyle seems to have done a lot of situation-specific research.
I intend to do more research of my own (by which I mean ask someone) when I get a chance.
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Reminds me of a story from someone working as a kids' party clown in Australia, who was "dakked" (had his clown pants yanked down} by a sneaky anklebiter as he attempted to juggle.
Looks like the ankle biter just wanted to see how well the juggler handled a couple more balls being added to the mix....
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They hold copyright over the version that they've scanned and put on the web site.
Kyle, I'm pretty sure that's incorrect.
Your interpretation would apply to, for example, a piece of music (a cover version, for example), because you are producing a work that has some originality - you've added originality to the existing work.
If the London Symphony Orchestra and the NY Symphony Orchestra both recorded separate versions of the collected works of Beethoven, both of those recordings would be copyright, despite the fact the copyright on the original sheet music expired several hundred years ago. So you couldn't copy the recordings without infringing copyright, but you could record your own version.
However, as has been pointed out, S14(2)(a) states: "a work is not original if it is...a copy of another work".
If it is a direct COPY (a scan), the amount of originality is zero.
On the other hand, a photograph of the photograph would have some originality - composition, lighting, etc - so it would be a copyright work in it's own right
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No one ever thinks of the candlestick maker.
Engineer, y'see.
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With actors and doctors and tattooists, my attitude is that they're professionals and I expect them to be professional.
I've just finished an antenatal course, where the instructor took pains to point out to the women on the course that a medical professional will probably have trouble recalling your face a few minutes after you (or they) walk out of the room.
She used an example where she had had a breast exam from a colleague at her hospital, who she then ran into the next day. After a minute or so of chatting away happily, she realised this colleague didn't have a clue who she was.
I was rather disappointed in my female dermatologist, who refused to examine my legs after I told her I'd gone commando that day.
Thanks for sharing. Does anyone have a wire brush suitable for my mind's eye?
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Pronounced 'fongers'?
'Fongers' is actually how I hear it in my head most of the time.
"Oh dahling, I'm so tired of the Auckland social whirl. If that awful Glaucoma woman puts me in the social pages one more time, I shall simply scream. Let's head up to Fongers for the weekend, get away from it all. Dear Michael has offered to put us up in the town hall."
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Technically, I believe you were beaten to it a couple of pages back by te west coast massive.
Ah yes. I must conceed the point. I probably would have noticed that if I hadn't been replaced by my own less perceptive clone.
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Think of the Earth as a gigantic movie set. The directors of the movie have the most sophisticated technologies we could ever imagine to create the great movie here....
...The directors can flip the action forward and into the past. They can stop action, take out players and replace them with their clones and then once everyone is in place, the action continues. No one misses a beat.
J W, a question for you.
If we're all being manipulated in the manner outlined above - we're all in a giant movie, and those manipulating us have these amazing powers - powers to manipulate reality in ways we can barely begin to comprehend....
...How is it that The Great Celestial Editor didn't leave you on the cutting room floor?
Not meaning to be insulting or anything, but if THEY are so powerful, why bother leaving you around?
...If someone in this play, figures out too much, the action is stopped, and his cloned replacement inserted. The replacement will undoubtedly be less perceptive.
...And since you seem to have figured all this out, how come you haven't been replaced by your less perceptive clone? Or perhaps you have?
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Back in the good old days, when the Imperial British Jackboot was hard on the throat of large swathes of the known world, there were certain traditional shortenings or pronunciations of place names that were drawled out by the ruling classes over their quinine-infused G'n'T's. For example:
Hong Kong: 'Honkers'
Singapore: 'Singers'
Bangkok: 'Bangers'
Kuala Lumpur: 'Lumpers'You get the idea.
Anyhoo, I reckon applying this charmingly old-fashioned way of speaking to the town in question would solve all the current problems.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you....'Whangers'
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Knew I should have taken the red pill.