Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-18 Thread bob catchpole
Rob Myers wrote: Registration only affects damages where copyright is infringed. So if someone uses your work without permission and you haven't registered you're not entitled to damages. ONLY in the States. Why not come into line with the rest of the world? Just get rid of the need (and

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-18 Thread Rob Myers
bob catchpole wrote: Rob Myers wrote: Registration only affects damages where copyright is infringed. So if someone uses your work without permission and you haven't registered you're not entitled to damages. ONLY in the States. It is possible to register afterwards and claim damages

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-18 Thread Michael Szpakowski
*Why defend the indefensible?* I think a lot of us here lean towards the view that it's copyright tout court that's indefensible. michael --- On Sun, 5/18/08, bob catchpole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: bob catchpole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-18 Thread bob catchpole
Michael Szpakowski wrote: I think a lot of us here lean towards the view that it's copyright tout court that's indefensible. Fascinating stuff... I describe an ongoing fiasco, our two friends across the pond go on defending it... It's possible to see how something as awful as the Orphan

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-18 Thread Michael Szpakowski
Try reading what I wrote. I defended nothing - I questioned the whole concept of copyright. someone who knows what a lot of us are thinking I think what I said was probably just a statement of fact as far as this list is concerned; I could be wrong. I'm aware it's not a mainstream view. across

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-18 Thread bob catchpole
Silly me... and I thought Michael was making an informed contribution for a lot of us here in the States... yet it's nothing of the sort... Michael has nothing to say about the Orphan Works Bill... but throws in copyright tout court expecting people to know what he's talking about... The

[NetBehaviour] Combo

2008-05-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
Combo Combination continuous and discontinuous: f(sin, tan) modeled simply in Calculon (Zaurus) Orthogonally along the axes, the configurations are simple; askew, they're surprisingly complex. Of course this is all dependent on projecting onto the plane. sin(x) + tan(y) and sin(x) *