Posts by Mark Harris
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I can't remember if this has been discussed or not, but Lessig gave a good presentation at TED a year ago about creativity and copyright which I think is worth 20 mins of your time.
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Craig, what is your gravatar? It look like a Christmas Cthulhu
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Don't really wish to be a negative nancy, but wouldn't it be prudent to at least wait until March 27 before declaring "victory"?
Maybe, but getting any movement at all from the Government, is a significant step, after the resolute stonewalling from officials and elected members.
The TCF policy is still in draft form, so the implementation of 92A was always going to have to be delayed by the Government to protect the large telcos until they sort their shit out.
No, no, no. You're applying logic. The Government (both Labour and National) has repeatedly said that implementation would occur on the 28th, so that means regardless of whether the Code of Practice was complete. It was particularly WTF that the closing date for submissions was always after the implementation date.
While the Code may act as a de facto regulatory framework, it has no status in law at present, which is a major chickenshit move by government officials in that they should have been drawing up real regulations for this Act.
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Not arguing, Stephen Judd but:
And when they have won, judges have not generally agreed with their estimates of the loss they have suffered.
One. One is the number of cases the RIAA have actually won and that has been declared a mistrial (Jammie Thomas) because the judge decided he'd misinformed the jury as to how "making available" should be interpreted. All the other cases the RIAA are claiming as "wins" were settled out of court, mainly by people who could not afford to fight.
The RIAA has never taken on a university with a solid law school, like Harvard, but now Harvard have taken them on, in the Joel Tennenbaum case
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http://xkcd.com/546/
ROFLNUI -
No chocolate fish but the men in the white coats will be around shortly...
what's to stop someone overseas copying it, claiming it as their own and using it as a promo reel to hawk around?
Nothing much, same as there was nothing to stop someone copying a promo disk and claiming it. He'd have to rely on being able to prove prior art and, more importantly, finding out about it in the first place.
But you're right, there are other voices that need to be heard.
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Also confirmed Craig really is the guy I remember from school.
Craig "Highlander" Ranapia - There can be only one.
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Anybody not in today's PA thread should note that s92A has been delayed until 27 March to enable the TCF Code of Practice process to attempt completion
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Or is that still too hard for everyone.
It is hard. Witness the back and forth on the current copyright thread, which is up to 40 pages, some of which has even been amicable. There are some entrenched positions and some very different understandings and that's without any of the RIANZ or other acronym type groups involved.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't try, though. Come on over and join the fun ;-)
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@ Paul C
Well said