Posts by Mark Harris
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If AP does get the money it's after, it will be reaping value added by Fairey.
There's some question over whether AP actually hold copyright in the image. Jonathan Melber writes on the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-melber/the-ap-hase-no-case-again_b_165068.htmlIt's also worth noting that there's a real question as to whether the AP owns the copyright to Garcia's photograph in the first place. Under copyright law, you own the copyright to whatever you create unless you grant it to someone else in writing. Garcia told me that none of the documents he signed granted the AP the copyright to any of his photographs. He said he was "caught completely off guard" when, according to Garcia, the AP told him in January that they owned the copyright. And he was shocked when he found out the AP was going after Fairey. "I told the AP I don't want to be a part of it," said Garcia. "I don't want to sue anybody."
He goes on to state that Fairey's use of the image falls under the Fair Use provision of US law (we don't have the equivalent in NZ) using Russell's point above :
And the other "fair use" factors? Well, Fairey didn't harm the commercial value of Garcia's photograph--he vastly increased it.
In other news, Fairey's suing AP and the Stanford Law Centre is representing him.
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15 Minute presentation (sorry, Rob, this one is bound to rile you) from Midem "How Trent Reznor and NIN represent the Future of the Music Business"
Since completing his earlier major record label contract, musician Trent Reznor has been experimenting with a variety of new and unique business models for his band, Nine Inch Nails, to reach and connect with fans. This case study explores Reznor's experiments, examining what has worked and what has not - and why.
Speaker: Michael Masnick (Editor/President & CEO, Techdirt Blog/Floor64)It's an interesting formula: CwF + RtB = $$$$
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Otherwise it's the slightly idiosyncratic but otherwise v. nice Mellel.
I've heard of Mellel but never tried it. What's its appeal to you, Joe?
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I'm not following you. If you're saying that academics don't worry about formal presentation, I'd have to disagree, but I'm not quite sure it's what you're saying.
You're right, it's not ;-)
Yes, academics do worry about formal presentation, precisely because it is formal. Ben made the claim that he's "rather the functioning of government and academia wasn't held up by such concerns, considering how slow moving they already are". My point was that the holdup is usually about the content, not the typos, although they get a seeing to as well.
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Stephen
Intel or PPC Mac? Sadly, it makes a difference. On Intel, it's up to v 3.0.1, on PPC it's stuck at 2.4.0 and I don't think it'll go much further.
http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US
If you're on 10.3 or below, you'll need to use the X11 version. Otherwise, there's a native Aqua version.
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/There's also NeoOffice which was originally a Java-based port of OpenOffice but I think is now native code (don't quote me on that - the "neojava" in the URL makes me wonder)
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.phpI've been running NeoOffice versions for 4 years since I switched to Mac, and I run OpenOffice on my ancillary Linux and Windows installations. I have a copy of OfficeXP around, just in case, but I haven't had to fire it up in a long time. And even then it was only at a particular customer's insistence, and I established that there was no technical issue. Oh, well.
I've had no problem moving files between the systems or saving as Word docs or reading Word docs (I lie - very occasional format issues with tables, but usually because someone got too clever with formatting in Word. But then different versions of Word do that too) apart from master documents, which are a bitch. I tend to recreate them in ODF from scratch (takes time but worth it in the end).
There's a learning curve, but it's mainly "where stuff is on the menus" and I've found the OpenOffice variants far more agreeable to user macros that the MS products. I can't think of anything I used to be able to do in Word that I can't do in OpenOffice. Not to say there isn't anything, but it's likely to be well away from the 10% of features that 90% of users actually use. YMMV.
There are other products (abiword, for one) but you asked about Open office, so...
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I don't 'trust you'. Why should I? Convince me, rather than bully me, and maybe I will. You're not my teacher.
If you're calling me a pedant, which you seem to me to be, then by your definition, I am exactly that.
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/shirts
see! see! just one little typo and the meaning changes ;-)
(I blame e.e.cummings, myself)
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And it comes on t-shits!
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Fucking brilliant! ROFLnui to the max!
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Ben, I think the problem between us is the nature of appropriate communication. In an informal setting, much more latitude is given to grammatical errors, typos, and the like. In a formal setting, latitude is not given. It never has been and it never will be.
Trust me, you do not want government policy papers and legislation written as if the writer was writing an email to a mate. There's significant and semantic meaning in how material is laid out and the respect that is given by most readers (though obviously not you) and you really need to avoid unintentional ambiguity in policy papers. Admittedly, both policy papers and legislation could be written a lot more clearly, in plain English, but never in informal English.
I'm not an academic but I know a few - they're far more worried, from what I can see, about making sure that their papers are correct in content, than in style. Yet they know that a certain style is expected by their peers, and that their paper will be disregarded on a first cut if it fails to meet those expectations.
In government, public servants are (in the main) concerned about making sure they don't over-promise, that they don't tread on another department's toes and, most of all, that they don't piss off the Minister or her colleagues. That's why papers take so long. People argue over what it commits them to, not where the commas go.