Camping out for copyright

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Suddenly Camping

Suddenly Camping 04/09/2004 05:30 PM

Our family and a couple of other families are going camping next weekend, first of many planned this year.  The weird thing about camping is that time flies although there is nothing to do.  I know other people do a lot when they go camping, like climbing hills.  I don't.  My camping goes like this:

drive, unload, setup
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
  sit, eat, sit, eat, fire, drink, sleep
tear down, load, drive

When Geeks Go Camping

When Geeks Go Camping 01/09/2004 09:57 PM

Camping Gears

Camping Gears 03/23/2005 10:50 PM

C hris and Ponzi are having a world of pain fun getting camping gears together for Scoble's FU-Camp.  If you are just starting to get into camping, my advise would be to get as little as possible.  Part of camping fun is learning about what you need for the next trip.

If you get too much stuff out of anticipation, you'll waste too much time packing and unpacking.  And chances are, you won't make the second trip until years later.

My list of starter essentials for drive-in camping:

• tent(s) - easier to put up the better.  Make sure the tent is big enough to accomodate air-mattresses.  Don't waist money on hammers and stuff.
• a couple of large tarps - these are useful in many ways.
• sleeping bags - spend most of your money on this.
• air-mattress - I can't live without this.  There are some good ones out there that you can inflate and deflate silently in a few minutes.
• comfortable foldup chairs
• 2 lanterns and 1 flashlight
• an outdoor stove
• lighter and some firestarters
• a water bucket with a good handle
• a large plastic pan
• some thin ropes
• some protection against bugs (I like burning kind).
• ice chest(s)

That's it.  Oh yes, you'll need a bigger car.

As to pots and pans, just take throw aways from your kitchen until you know what you need for your choice of camp food.  And don't touch that glistening wood chopping axe unless you don't mind losing a toe.  Campsites or stores near them have firewood and they burn just fine without chopping them into smaller pieces.

If you enjoy hiking, you would already have the right shoes and cloths.  If you don't, don't get any so you won't have to hike.  When I go camping, I use my 15 year-old pair of sneakers (due to very low mileages logged) and a pair of slippers.  I use the sneakers to drive and unpack.  Then I switch to my 'thinking man's slippers', aka high-on-food gear, and that's that until it's time to pack again and drive away.

Tourist Camping Tycoon

Tourist Camping Tycoon 06/15/2004 06:35 AM
TCT get's alive

Camping Out for the Grokster Case

Camping Out for the Grokster Case 03/30/2005 06:49 AM
Cold and sometimes rainy weather didn't deter some from waiting in line for the Grokster hearing. Pilgrims came from places like Canada and California to watch the historic file-sharing case unfold. Katie Dean reports from Washington.

The Best and Worst Camping Gear

The Best and Worst Camping Gear 09/01/2004 12:27 AM
G4 Tech TV Sep 1 2004 4:48AM GMT

Kicking off the camping season

Kicking off the camping season 06/05/2005 10:49 PM

This weekend is the start of our camping season this year. This year, the first camping trip will be at the Pfiffer Big Sur State Park. We've been that five times or so but I have no problem with repeating a good thing. My wife, on the other hand, wants to try new camps. Sheesh.

My only worry is that my cigarette craving might get real bad during the trip. Last time I quit smoking for longer than a week, I stayed away for 6 months but I started smoking again while camping at Clear Lake. Oh boy, it was bad. I chewed through a full box of nicotine gum before throwing the towel in. I hope I fare better this time.

When geeks go camping, ideas hatch

When geeks go camping, ideas hatch 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
CNN Jan 9 2004 10:45AM ET

Squatters Wait for July 4 Camping
Permits (AP)

Squatters Wait for July 4 Camping
Permits (AP) 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
AP - On a bitter cold winter day, camping on July 4 is only a vision.

CNN.com - When geeks go camping, ideas
hatch - Jan. 9, 2004

CNN.com - When geeks go camping, ideas
hatch - Jan. 9, 2004 01/10/2004 06:11 AM
When geeks go camping, ideas hatch .. CNN features a John Batelle piece .. Business 2.0 article on Foo Camp

cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/09/bus2.feat.geek.camp/index.html
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Internet & Wifi Camping Enables You to
Web into New Nature Frontiers

Internet & Wifi Camping Enables You to
Web into New Nature Frontiers 03/25/2005 06:37 AM
Do you go camping to get away from it all and to get back in touch with nature? Or do you have the clicking finger itch to get back online around the campfire. Check your auctions and email under the stars. For better or worse, you can do both these days. [PRWEB Mar 25, 2005]

Canadian Copyright Board allows
downloads, copyright levies

Canadian Copyright Board allows
downloads, copyright levies 12/14/2003 12:27 PM

The Copyright Board of Canada issued a ruling on " private copying ", largely via peer-to-peer computing, with several components. First, downloading is acceptable, but uploading is not (presumably to target hyperpirates). Second, new mechanisms for levies were described, freezing current ones, allowing new charges.

the Copyright Board said uploading or distributing copyrighted works online appeared to be prohibited under current Canadian law. However, the country's copyright law does allow making a copy for personal use and does not address the source of that copy or whether the original has to be an authorized or noninfringing version, the board said.

Camping World cuts inventory 10% with
web-based replenishment tool

Camping World cuts inventory 10% with
web-based replenishment tool 05/14/2004 09:06 PM
InternetRetailer.com May 15 2004 0:27AM GMT

Copyright - what right?

Copyright - what right? 10/29/2003 12:09 AM
This slashdot posting was really interesting. its brief look at the history of copyright, and the misuse of it. Slashdot: Copyright The scary stuff for...

The Copyright Gap

The Copyright Gap 08/01/2004 03:20 PM
Here's the hypothesis: Today's telecom and copyright laws often regulate similar subjects, but with a big difference. The telecom laws slightly favor market entrants, while the copyright laws favor the incumbent disseminators. The result is a "copyright gap" that grows larger every day....

Ads and Copyright

Ads and Copyright 02/10/2004 02:41 AM

Never thought I'd say this, but the Super Bowl got me thinking.

Why shouldn't every advertiser release every print, audio, or multimedia ad they create under a Creative Commons license? Choose BY-NC-ND, and make clear you're protecting your trademark. Forget the cultural effect -- I'm talking pure business: What principle drives someone to enforce the full copyright in a work they'd normally pay millions to get in front of people's faces? Isn't it irrational NOT to free up distribution completely? Or am I missing something?

The FCC wants out of copyright

The FCC wants out of copyright 08/06/2004 06:18 PM
The Broadcast Flag regime is, I think, something of an embarassment for the FCC. Many of the commissioners came to the FCC to deregulate telecommunications law, not to regulate the electronics industry. Yet they find themselves in mission creep mode, issuing command-and-control rules for the design of consumer products, surely...

Can you copyright a typeface under US
law?

Can you copyright a typeface under US
law? 12/26/2004 06:33 PM
Xeni Jardin: [NSFNLG warning: Not Safe For Non-LawGeeks.] A recent post on BoingBoing sparked debate among some readers about whether or not U.S. copyright law makes it possible to protect typefaces. Digital music guru Jim Griffin maintains that the answer is no. He points to Volume 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations (Link) as one of several portions of US law that back his assertion. Snip from the text of the law, with his comments:

"The following are examples of works not subject to copyright and applications for registration of such works cannot be entertained: (...) typeface as typeface" 37 CFR 202.1(e).

House of Representatives report accompanied the new copyright law when passed in 1976: "The Committee has considered, but chosen to defer, the possibility of protecting the design of typefaces. A 'typeface' can be defined as a set of letters, numbers, or other symbolic characters, whose forms are related by repeating design elements consistently applied in a notational system and are intended to be embodied in articles whose intrinsic utilitarian function is for use in composing text or other cognizable combinations of characters. The Committee does not regard the design of typeface, as thus defined, to be a copyrightable 'pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work' within the meaning of this bill and the application of the dividing line in section 101." H.R. Rep. No. 94-1476, 94th Congress, 2d Session at 55 (1976), reprinted in1978 U.S. Cong. and Admin. News 5659, 5668.

It's also in accordance with a court case that has considered the matter: Eltra Corp. V. Ringer, 579 F.2d 294, 208 USPQ 1 (1978, C.A. 4, Va.).

The U.S. Copyright Office holds that a bitmapped font is nothing more than a computerized representation of a typeface, and as such is not copyrightable:

"The [September 29, 1988] Policy Decision [published at 53 FR 38110] based on the [October 10,] 1986 Notice of Inquiry [published at 51 FR 36410] reiterated a number of previous registration decisions made by the [Copyright] Office. First, under existing law, typeface as such is not registerable. The Policy Decision then went on to state the Office's position that 'data that merely represents an electronic depiction of a particular typeface or individual letterform' [that is, a bitmapped font] is also not registerable." 57 FR 6201.

Link to previous BB post.

on a 95 year copyright

on a 95 year copyright 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
Douglas Keenan has a nice short piece about "limited times" and a 95 year copyright.

Copyright and attribution

Copyright and attribution 12/17/2004 06:33 PM
Crooked Timber has a post today on copyright and attribution that cites Creative Commons:

In short, the informal economy of academic attribution is much more like the kind of alternative economy that, say, Creative Commons is trying to create than it is like the copyright industry. Academics are usually happy when others rip, remix or even parody their work - as long as the remix artists acknowledge them by name. Similarly, the Creative Commons licenses now include a requirement for attribution as standard (it used to be optional, but 97-98% of Creative Commons users wanted it in their licenses, so that the CC crowd decided that it was easier to make it the default). The requirement that people not plagiarize (i.e. that they not use others’ work without attribution) presents no problems whatsoever for ‘free culture.’

Iraq's copyright law

Iraq's copyright law 05/21/2004 02:14 PM
Jamie Knox sent along Iraq's newly amended copyright law (as if THIS was where we needed to worry about rule of law in Iraq). I've just begun going through it, but there are favorite tidbits so far: collections of data can be protected; readings of the Koran are protected; and collections of government documents can be protected. But significantly, the term is life plus 50! More disharmony...

Copyright chill

Copyright chill 12/25/2003 11:20 PM
CNET Asia Dec 25 2003 10:35PM ET

3G Copyright Heavyweights

3G Copyright Heavyweights 02/10/2004 06:56 AM
3G Feb 10 2004 9:46AM GMT

Are you a Copyright Criminal?

Are you a Copyright Criminal? 09/20/2004 09:08 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader Robert Daeley says, "Came across this picture on the wall just behind a copy machine. All the hackers I know wear ski masks when they commit their crimes. Oh, and big thick leather gloves are great for typing."

Link< /a> to blog post with pointer to full size image. Mwuhuhahahahaaaaaaa.

How not to be a copyright putz

How not to be a copyright putz 08/11/2004 05:14 PM
Dan Gillmor lists the ways his book is making its way into our intellectual bloodstream. Go Dan! Go We the Media! Here's an interview of Dan by Xeni Jardin....

The Copyright WebQuest

The Copyright WebQuest 09/07/2004 05:15 AM
The Copyright WebQuest
http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/artifacts/consulting/copyright/
To develop an understanding of copyright law and how it applies to you, you need to develop a thorough understanding of what you are allowed to do under copyright, and, what you are not allowed to do. One way for you to get there is to critically analyze a number of copyright scenarios and discuss them from multiple perspectives. That's your task in this exercise. If you're short on time, patience, or want to try a different way, you may want to review the presentation and then take the online quiz. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

"The Tyranny of Copyright?"

"The Tyranny of Copyright?" 01/26/2004 10:21 AM

The Tyranny of Copyright?

The Tyranny of Copyright? 01/24/2004 02:49 PM

Facing the Copyright Rap

Facing the Copyright Rap 09/09/2004 05:18 AM
Including snippets of another artist's song in your work -- a popular rapper technique known as 'sampling' -- may violate copyright law, an appeals court rules.

Moving and Copyright

Moving and Copyright 07/16/2004 01:53 AM

We're moving our offices to San Francisco tomorrow. I'm packing boxes. Just noticed that our Fellowes brand cardboard file boxes carry a copyright notice: (c) Copyright 2001 Fellowes, Inc. Sure am glad they included that. Was about to pirate.

RSS feeds and copyright

RSS feeds and copyright 02/01/2005 08:40 PM
This dumb ass (also known as Martin Schwimmer of Trademark Blog, has a problem with Bloglines picking up his public RSS-feed and redistributing it. Because they might at some stage serve ads together with the content. For those of you...

Copyright Out of Balance

Copyright Out of Balance 02/01/2005 09:12 PM
Cory Doctorow on the disappearance of important documentary films because filmmakers can't come up with continuing payments for rights to archival footage. Case in point: The legendary Civil Rights Era documentary "Eyes on the Prize". Footnote: When I was the CEO of Lotus in the mid-1980's, the company provided critical...

U.K. copyright law goes into effect

U.K. copyright law goes into effect 10/31/2003 11:41 AM
ZDNet Oct 31 2003 11:05AM ET

Copyright messages

Copyright messages 12/02/2002 01:17 PM

"US Copyright Office"

"US Copyright Office" 06/03/2004 12:21 PM

Hallowe'en and copyright

Hallowe'en and copyright 10/31/2003 09:37 PM
Ernie sez, "On Halloween, what is more scary than copyright law? For example, did you know that the famous vampire movie 'Nosferatu' was almost lost forever due to copyright? On the other hand the makers of a Michael Myers Halloween mask won a lawsuit by proving they took the idea from the movie. Maybe someone can figure out how to get around pumpkin carving DRM. If not, some ghost pirates (or is that pirate ghosts?) have a solution for the file sharing problem." Link (Thanks, Ernie!)

Wagner on copyright

Wagner on copyright 02/13/2004 03:58 PM
Mitch Wagner's written a very lucid essay about DRM and file-sharing that strikes me as one of the better formulations of the problem that I've seen to date.

It's rather appropriate that the logo for Disney is a mouse, because The Walt Disney Company this week announced its intention to throw money down a rathole. Disney became the latest company to license Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. DRM doesn't work and consumers don't want it, so of course it's very appealing to big business, who are also in a big rush to sell other, equally practical products, such as anchovy flavored ice cream and bicycles with square wheels.

Link

Copyright Basics

Copyright Basics 07/01/2004 07:02 AM
a good introductory reference

How Copyright Stifles New Art

How Copyright Stifles New Art 04/12/2004 07:32 PM

JD Lasica: The Killing Fields. In the film, artists, writers, musicians, scientists, and others parade across his lens. Many of them have been threatened, sued, fined, and put out of work in the name of copyright. Horowitz captures it all in a video vérité style popularized by Michael Moore in Roger & Me and Bowling for Columbine. At various points, the iconoclastic Horowitz appears on camera, appearing dumbfounded at the tales of a preschool director who said she received letters warning that the school could not show videos to her young charges without a license or hang protected cartoon characters on the walls without permission. He also interviews members of a Rolling Stones tribute band who perform under a legal cloud and husband-and-wife party clowns in Anaheim, California, who were warned not to create balloon animals for kids that looked too much like Tigger, Barney, or the Aladdin genie.

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