ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC are the three main performing rights organizations in the US. All of them represent the holders of the music copyrights (e.g. songwriters), not the sound recordings made by artists.
Most, I hate the Sparta icon... it's white, with no contrast border... which makes everything that is assigned to it being the default program, show a white globe on a white background... it's like, "way to go, Microsoft!" followed by a slow clap.
"clean" "modern" design... which will never work decently on all backgrounds... you know... like good logos, and designs...
An author's copyrights can be assigned or transferred to a third party. This leaves the author with only the same rights as any member of the general public. (There are a few narrow exceptions, but nothing that would prevent the possibility of an author infringing on the copyright of a work he created)
It's also possible for a person who prepares a work to not be considered the author. This is the case for works made for hire.
And of course copyright isn't mandatory, though that just leads to works being in the public domain, so at least there's no danger of infringement there.
However, bear in mind that copyright only applies to original material, not to pre-existing material. A review which includes a quote is copyrightable, but the new copyright for the review only covers the portion original to the reviewer; the material quoted is only covered by the copyright of the work the quotes are drawn from.
17 USC 103(b):
The copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to the material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished from the preexisting material employed in the work, and does not imply any exclusive right in the preexisting material. The copyright in such work is independent of, and does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership, or subsistence of, any copyright protection in the preexisting material.
Though there was a good reason for the original compact Macs to discourage users from opening them up -- there were exposed high voltage monitor electronics in there which could give you a hell of a zap of not properly discharged.
The later all in one Macs of the 90s were better in that regard. Their user suitable parts (motherboard, drives) all were easy to get at, but the monitors and power supplies were fully enclosed.
These people are increasingly rare, given that more gas stations lack "full-service" pumps.
Well, chalk one up for electrics, I guess.
Tesla's working on automated full-service battery swapping stations. And apparently also on charging cords that can plug themselves in:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1...
Robots of that sort already exist, so you can see the sort of thing he's probably referring to:
Local delivery (Fed Ex, UPS etc) will still have an operator (or perhaps two or more) that can jump out with the package while the delivery truck drives around the block
That's what the Amazon drones are for. The truck just has to cruise through the neighborhood. Meanwhile, small drone aircraft that it carries will work to carry packages out of the truck and to front doors. A human will still be needed for heavy or bulky packages, or for deliveries that have to be brought inside or where there's no convenient place for the drone to land to deposit them, but those packages and destinations can be separated from the others at the local depot, and all put on a smaller number of trucks, therefore needing a smaller number of humans. You won't need a human for every truck if you work out the routes each day based on the nature of the packages you've got and where you're taking them.
.. the best way to address that problem would be for the EU to define the standards and the process to be followed...
This, absolutely this. In order to force someone to turn over information, I have to have a valid subpoena issued by a court with jurisdiction. The fact that they just punted this to "you figure it out" means Google is given arbitrary discretion on how they can fulfil this, and the recourse to disagreeing is to take them to court and sue them again.
If you're going to give someone a right enforced by the government, then you should provide the necessary process to issue a "strike-records decree"...
BTW, Google still tells employees not to talk about this stuff in public, because Google has to so carefully watch its steps. (Disclaimer, I used to be a Google employee this year)
The problem is also the consent decree that says "anything that Google says, it has to actually be doing"... which can end up really nitpicky if lawyers want to be... and "my various governments" are all looking to catch Google for something, anything... so, they are being a bit nitpicky...
Worse, the H1Bs require their employer to sponsor them to remain in the United States, which they will only do if the individual is working for them.
As a result, the employer not only holds and H1B's livelihood under a Damocles Sword, but even their residence in this country. You want to quit? Well, I hope you're prepared to move yourself back to where you came from on your own dime, which is also what happens if we fire you.
So, the employer has even more power over H1B workers, to the point where the worker is unlikely to report anything but the worst abuse...
It even syncs the disks before shutting down! v_v
Such a non-news story... omg, this this is "interesting" in so far as an odd tool that has little possible use(?)
That's my thinking...
Congresscritter?
I for one welcome our new -hole gender-neutral name style for jobs that are essentially "lie about this in the least possible lie, so that it still puts us in a good light"
In Germany, autopay comes with an authorization limit... basically, "if the bill is over X,€ don't autopay"
I'd prefer to see this on the autopay here in the states as well... because I'm fine with authorizing autopay for any bill less than $60... but if it reaches into the thousands, or even the hundreds, then I damn well don't want to authorize the autopay!
10 separate streams at only 29 Mbps... that means you could do
If that was the case you would not have given them 25% and taken 75% for you and the game makers.
You know, I always hate how my grunt work for companies makes them 4 times the money they pay you. It's just greedy theft. We should start a movement where the means of production are owned by the workers rather than investors and management!
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
