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Mar 13, 2012 / 1:08am

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Hundreds of years ago a Japanese judge (Ōoka Tadasuke) handled a lawsuit by a paranoid innkeeper who accused a poor student of literally stealing the fumes of his cooking by eating when the innkeeper was cooking to flavour his dull food. Although his colleagues advised Ōoka to throw the case out as ridiculous, he decided to hear the case. The judge resolved the matter by ordering the student to pass the money he had in one hand to his other and ruling that the price of the smell of food is the sound of money.

Kind of Screwed

But this is important: the fact that I settled is not an admission of guilt. My lawyers and I firmly believe that the pixel art is "fair use" and Maisel and his counsel firmly disagree. I settled for one reason: this was the least expensive option available.

Burning the library in slow motion: how copyright extension has banished millions of books to the scrapheap of history

Suddenly the entire world of informal and non commercial culture -- from home movies that provide a wonderful lens into the private life of an era, to essays, posters, locally produced teaching materials -- was swept into copyright. And kept there for the life of the author plus 70 years. The effects were culturally catastrophic. Copyright went from covering very little culture, and only covering it for a 28 year period during which it was commercially available, to covering all of culture, regardless of whether it was available -- often for over a century. Unlike Fahrenheit 451, the vast majority of the culture swept into this 20th century black hole was not commercially available and, in most cases, the authors are unknown. The works are locked up -- with no benefit to anyone -- and no one has the key that would unlock them. We have cut ourselves off from our own culture, left it to molder -- and in the case of nitrate film, literally disintegrate -- with no benefit to anyone

RapidShare didn't infringe on copyrights, says US court

RapidShare founder Christian Schmid was understandably happy with the decision. "The view that RapidShare does not promote any infringements of copyright, unlike other file-hosts, appears to be gradually catching on," Schmid said in a statement.

First They Came For Hitler...

Because Hitler has been bringing the laughs at least since the Beer Hall Putsch, the result was pretty funny, and it spawned a vast genre in which, simply through subtitle changes, Hitler rants about Jay's replacing Conan, Hitler can't get Miley Cyrus tickets, Hitler's pissed off about getting bad seats for a Bruce Springsteen concert, etc. There's even one where the dictator is mad about all the people making Downfall parodies

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You can include a copyright text, but the Berne Convention says it has no legal meaning. I say it’s useless baggage, especially the copyright years, so don’t put them in there at all.

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Send Them Your Money

Kind of Screwed

Burning the library in slow motion: how copyright extension has banished millions of books to the scrapheap of history

RapidShare didn't infringe on copyrights, says US court

First They Came For Hitler...

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