Say Aerith and Bob are candidates for an elected office. Two weeks before the election, Aerith files a notification of claimed infringement against the host of Bob's campaign web site. To make this not perjury, Aerith finds some sort of tenuous ground, such as a claim that the use of excerpts of Aerith's ads in Bob's response ads exceeds what fair use allows. During these two weeks, Bob's campaign has no web site.

Given that Java has only been released for 17 years, you are basically asking James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, or Patrick Naughton to come to work for you for $40K/year.

-- Terry

From 17 USC 512(g)(2)(C): A service provider that receives a counter-notification "replaces the removed material and ceases disabling access to it not less than 10, nor more than 14, business days following receipt of the counter notice". How am I misreading this?

What complicates any discussion of hell is that there are two distinct states called "hell" in English translations of the Bible. One is Sheol or Hades, the place where the dead sleep unconsciously: "the dead are conscious of nothing" (Eccl. 9:5). The other is Gehenna, where the unrepentant are permanently destroyed in the second death. Which hell are you talking about?

Perhaps "moot" as in "moot point" is in the sense of an issue that is only debatable academically because it is otherwise irrelevant under the facts. Or perhaps it derives from "moot court", an exercise in which law students practice a fake appellate case in front of law professors.

Loving your neighbor is called one of the two greatest commandments in Mark 12:28-31, citing Deuteronomy 6:4-5 and Leviticus 19:18.

So what you say is you take what the non-technical people say back to the technical people. Couldn't the technical people just talk to the technical people directly?

Why not, if you play only AAA games and no indie games?

France used to require government approval for children's names when registering births. This was a francophone thing, not a uniqueness thing. But it could have been expanded to use a uniqueness check. Corporation and D/B/A names have to be unique within their jurisdiction.

Names in China used to be disambiguated by asking "What is your village?" This is no longer very helpful.

The question doesn't make sense. Proprietary software is the opposite of Free Software (or Open Source, depending on your leanings). It is software where the person who receives the binary also receives the code, along with modification and redistribution rights. You can not require derived works not to be proprietary without also requiring their code to be released - it's like requiring them to include air, but not requiring them to include oxygen.

The GPL doesn't require you to release the code to anyone that you don't give binaries to, so it doesn't require public release. More importantly, it doesn't require giving back, only giving forward, which is why the 'I use the GPL so that companies that use my code have to give me their improvements' argument irritates me so much: 90% of all software is developed for in-hosue use and never distributed, so anyone using and improving the code for in-hosue use has no legal obligation to share it under the GPL.