Not a surprising act after the rest of the population pays "TV license" for decades to watch BBC lying.
UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Whites were pretty clear in their goals, I'd thought: preservation of monarchy and status quo. A more interesting counterfactual would have been Menshevik victory.
Except most of them were actually republican, supporting Provisional Government. It was a wide coalition of monarchists, republicans, orthdox priests and military. Their only common ground was perhaps dislike and fear of reds (and that turned out very justified).
> Their only common ground was perhaps dislike and fear of reds (and that turned out very justified).
Getting wildly OT now but the atrocities and systematic killings performed by the Nationalists absolutely dwarfed the isolated killings on the Republican side, perhaps by a factor of ten to one.
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#73I do not think this can pass. I think it would be incompatible with EU law, which has higher priority than local country law.
Country law trumps EU law.
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#74This may run head on into the ubiquitous surveillance state. After all, you can how prevent anyone from legally photographing you if you wear some classic designer objects.
Red carpet events could be more easily "curated", since practically very dress is a unique creation.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless one of your user submitted photos of an Apple laptop happens to contain their desk chair that you don't notice is a designer chair. The first you may know about this is the copyright troll that purchased the rights to images of that chair sending you a speculative invoice after their chair recognising bot has trawled your blog. You might when you reflect on this hazard decide that your blog on Apple laptops is…
My understanding of the current protections (of 2D works) is that the photograph has to be an image of the protected object. A photo of an Apple laptop with a desk chair in the background isn't a photo of the desk chair. Similarly, a photo of an art gallery isn't a photo of every piece of art contained therein.
Good. However, it will be for the publisher of the photo to argue this with the copyright troll (and possibly eventually in court). In particular I guess that they will probably have to demonstrate that the chair is background and not a significant part of the image. I guess that the publisher will win eventually. I personally don't want to be the test case though.
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#76It's just what happens when most of the policies are made up by 'sponsored' lobbies -- the ones with the deep pockets. It's completely bonkers really, most of the decisions that people care about are made up in a gray area that doesn't involve them at all; you got an office somewhere making up policies straight out of briefs they've been fed by lobbies (who feeds it to every party too, just in case) A good recent exa…
Any good links on the Heathrow vs. Gatwick campaigning and lobbying effort?
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#77A prime example of how law creates the criminals in the first place. We could live in perfect peace without this brain fart.
Re: UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
#78I do not think this can pass. I think it would be incompatible with EU law, which has higher priority than local country law.
Country law trumps EU law.
County Implementations can vary from to the letter of the law and its intent or a trivial implementation which has been neutered by local lobbying.
Look at how TUPE is implemented across the EU and you will see how this works compare the Uk and Spain
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fact for example Apple has confirmed repeatedly for many years that they don't pay for product placement.
They do pay, but they pay in hardware. They have dedicated staff to promote product placement and according to a Hollywood movie maker, "Apple won’t pay to have their products featured, but they are more than willing to hand out an endless amount of computers, iPads, and iPhones". It is actually a very unethical practice if you think about it in monetary terms. Rather than paying the film company above the table like…
Thata a bit of a leap to go from "they hand out free hardware" to "they bribe staff with free hardware."
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fact for example Apple has confirmed repeatedly for many years that they don't pay for product placement.
They do pay, but they pay in hardware. They have dedicated staff to promote product placement and according to a Hollywood movie maker, "Apple won’t pay to have their products featured, but they are more than willing to hand out an endless amount of computers, iPads, and iPhones". It is actually a very unethical practice if you think about it in monetary terms. Rather than paying the film company above the table like…
You seem to have a strange sense of morality. Looks like good marketing to me.