Typically when a song is remixed or sampled, the copyright holders have given permission and are getting royalties.
I don't have figures, but no, not for the notable ones at least.
The artists and marketing guys know and encourage remixing, but it's not normally a contract situation. That often leads to conflicts with the RIAA in their 'super SWAT team' form. See this for example.
they're the ones who completely ignored Ron Paul's existence
Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel, too.
True, but it was particularly obvious in Ron Paul's case, when he was getting vote tallies on par with Giulliani's in the early primaries and they refused to label Paul's wedge in their pie charts.
Now someone comes along and puts the smack down on the thugs you could not defeat or did not think it was even to your interest to try and fight. They also manage to return 70% of your losses to you. I suspect most people would be great full to get 70K refunded to them of 100K they thought they'd lost forever.
I don't find the lawyer's take on these types of things all that outrageous when you look at it objectively.
Unless "objectively" means "like a lawyer" I still don't see how a huge injustice has not been done. ("Injustice" is the opposite of "Justice." You may need to consult a dictionary.)
Or were neanderthals so cornered by humans that they resorted to cannibalism?
Misleading title...
Not really. There's several explanations for why that jawbone ended up the way it did, but it wouldn't likely be N-on-N cannibalism, since it ended up in a Cro-Mag settlement.
Judging from the absence of other bones, it could as easily have been scavenging, or opportunistic trophy collecting.
OTOH, it could come back to bite us.
If you don't want people or groups or other sites to access your freely publicized data....don't put it out there where anyone can get it. Either keep it off the web or put it behind a 'wall' where only paying members can see it.
Paywalls don't work well, so why do that when they can coerce a revenue stream with lawsuits and/or petitions?
If the Pirate Bay wrote a quick op-ed piece about every torrent they linked to, then they would be journalists and thus, protected.
But who's going to have the time to write reviews of so many feature films and their respective encode jobs?
If only they could harness some sort of free labor pool...
After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
