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Re: 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

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Post by rcMgD2BwE72F »

mcmcmc wrote: post #151
ncallaway wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty open to doing something like this broadly, but I think this is especially important for software. Things like video games are much harder to archive than text. Keeping them running 70 years after the death of the author is already a herculean task. Doing that, when no copies are being distributed could make that entirely impossible. The current copyright system is going to rob the public domain of many of…

What makes you think you’re entitled to other people’s work?

What make you think the authors of these works (the workers, not the owners) would oppose this proposal?

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Post by wolfendin »

mcmcmc wrote: post #151
ncallaway wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty open to doing something like this broadly, but I think this is especially important for software. Things like video games are much harder to archive than text. Keeping them running 70 years after the death of the author is already a herculean task. Doing that, when no copies are being distributed could make that entirely impossible. The current copyright system is going to rob the public domain of many of…

What makes you think you’re entitled to other people’s work?

It’s copyright. Not authorright.

The exclusive ability to copy is granted as a conceit.

The restriction only came about because publishers got mad.

Re: 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

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Post by vasco »

w0z_ wrote: post #167
sytelus wrote: post #127

This is complete incompetence from their leadership who show no value to their own content. They could have easily auctioned off/sold very old content to someone else but that kind of thinking would be beyond their competency. It's no wonder they go in such huge losses despite of having loyal audience and monopoly over unparalleled content. To this day I cannot get over the fact that there are literally millions docu…

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Account from 2023 accusing account from 2007. Mmmm.

Re: 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

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Post by thenoblesunfish »

This really highlights the need for something like a "right to culture". People deserve a way to personally preserve and enjoy the cultural artifacts that are important to them. I can mostly do that by buying digital music, but (as Jon Stewart would say) with TV and movies, ah-not-so-much.

Re: 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

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Post by nicolas_t »

w0z_ wrote: post #167
sytelus wrote: post #127

This is complete incompetence from their leadership who show no value to their own content. They could have easily auctioned off/sold very old content to someone else but that kind of thinking would be beyond their competency. It's no wonder they go in such huge losses despite of having loyal audience and monopoly over unparalleled content. To this day I cannot get over the fact that there are literally millions docu…

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What proofs do you have that he is doing that? I mean I'm not him and my first instinct if I saw your previous comment "What are you even talking about. When is the last time you went to comedycentral.com to watch something... This is giant self-righteous paragraph of junk." would be to downvote it.

I'd downvote it because of "self-righteous paragraph of junk." and because I strongly believe that historical content should be maintained.

Re: 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

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Post by w0z_ »

vasco wrote: post #174
w0z_ wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Account from 2023 accusing account from 2007. Mmmm.

I don't really care to recover my older account on my MBP with a dead logic board. Do you want me to recover a really old account for a measurement-contest

Re: 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

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Post by nutrie »

gnicholas wrote: post #147
themoonisachees wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC a part of copyright "activating" is publishing the content in the first place, so I don't think GP would have a good case to begin with, not that it matters.

Copyright does not require public publishing of the content — just "fixed in a tangible medium of expression". This would have been accomplished when the painting was created on paper.

This is exactly what I meant. That’s why I said it just one of the implications, out of many.

Re: 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

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sytelus wrote: post #127

This is complete incompetence from their leadership who show no value to their own content. They could have easily auctioned off/sold very old content to someone else but that kind of thinking would be beyond their competency. It's no wonder they go in such huge losses despite of having loyal audience and monopoly over unparalleled content. To this day I cannot get over the fact that there are literally millions docu…

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