Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Government work non-copyrighed? (Score 1) 223

Works produced by federal government employees during their jobs is in the public domain, which gets us for example great pictures from NASA that have no restrictions on use.

However, works produced by non-employees who simply receive federal funding has no such restriction. If the federal governments contracts out production of, say, a report, it will be under copyright, which can be assigned to the federal government. Thus we have the somewhat interesting situation wherein the federal government holds copyrights only on works they didn't produce.

Comment Re:Inflation... (Score 1) 331

There's actually another problem with their math even on its face. $3.7 billion equates to more than 3.7 billion tracks, since some stores like Amazon sell tracks for less than 99 cents and the music industry cut is less than 100%. 3.7 billion of 43.7 billion is eight percent, so the percentage of legal downloads is probably 10% or more. Then the illegal percentage is 90% or less.

If they could make such a stupid error in their final result, where else must they have used bad math for the report?

Slashdot Top Deals

HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!

Working...