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Comment Re:Quote will be useful in court (Score 0) 33

If you are copying text from a screen or book to your brain (with your eyes) then it may be copyright infringment.

There have been multiple lawsuits that resulted in the person that created a song are not allowed to perform ("open your mouth") it since part of the song belongs to someone else and thus violates copyright.

In US they have multiple exeptions for example "scholarship" and "comment". But sure if your reading does not qualify for fair use then yes you are in violation of the owners copyright (if you dont have the permission from the owner).

I'm taking this to the extreme here:

First amendment says "The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments".
If the Supreme Court say that "their sentiments" can not be something one else created then fair use can be decleared be unconstitutional. A work I created is "my sentiment", you are not allowed to use it in any way since it violates my first amendment to publish or speak it.

New lawsuits may result if you are pregnant and thinking about things you are sharing it with your unborn baby. Copyrighted material may be encoded to DNA/RNA, there are so many things we don't know about DNA.

I'm not being sarcastic.

Comment Copy receipts Legal? (Score 0) 51

https://panel.amazon.com/ says "take pictures of paper receipts or by forwarding email receipts". Is the recipt not copyrighted? Do customers have the right to sell a copy of the recipt? Are Amazon allowed to buy a copy of the recipt? It probobly is copyrighted.

If it was a picture that got scanned and I sent it to a website I would go to jail.
If it was a DVD that got captured and I sent it to a website I would go to jail.

Anyone in US that knows how this is legal? (Im not in US)

Comment Who pays matter? (Score -1) 190

Two things.

"Except that this video is DRM'd, and requires you to pay 0.1 Cent each time someone watches the video on your blog."

Or you could have a system that makes the end user pay before being able to watch it.

Things (images, text, videos and apps) on the internet is already protected, including that image you wanted to copy. Only because you don't have a system to stop you does not make it legal to copy something. DRM makes it very easy to you to know what you are allowed to do.

Do you buy a gun and just start shooting people because there is no "kill rights manager" system?

Do you try to picklock physical locks because you believe you are allowed in a place?

If you want it to make it illegal to apply DRM on things to reduce your rights than vote, lobby or run in a election for a law that stops this.

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The Factory Where Robots Build Robots (bloomberg.com) 59

turkeydance shared Bloomberg's profile of Fanuc, a secretive Japanese company with 40,000-square-foot factories "where robots made other robots in the dark...stopping only when no storage space remains." About 80% of the company's assembly work is automated, and its robots then go on to assemble and paint cars, build motors, and make electrical components. "King of them all is the Robodrill, which plays first violin in one of the great symphonies of modern production: machining the metal casing for Apple Inc.'s iPhones..." With 40% profit margins, the robot vendor has become a $50 billion company controlling most of the world's market for factory automation and industrial robotics, Bloomberg reports: In fact, Fanuc might just be the single most important manufacturing company in the world right now, because everything Fanuc does is designed to make it part of what every other manufacturing company is doing... The company even profits from its competitors' sales, because more than half of all industrial robots are directed by its numerical-control software. Between the almost 4 million CNC systems and half-million or so industrial robots it has installed around the world, Fanuc has captured about one-quarter of the global market, making it the industry leader over competitors such as Yaskawa Motoman and ABB Robotics in Germany, each of which has about 300,000 industrial robots installed globally. Fanuc's Robodrills now command an 80 percent share of the market for smartphone manufacturing robots.
Fanuc's clients include Amazon and Tesla, but U.S. orders "are dwarfed by those from China -- some 90,000 units, almost a third of the world's total industrial robot orders last year."

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