whoa buddy....

maybe you haven't seen the bad end of an idiot judge who hands out costs judgements like candies.

i am involved in a case where the judge got all worked up because one side(mine unfortunately) hinted that that judge didn't have a clue with regard to the law at hand and maybe it was time for her to get that clue.

a couple of motions later my side was hit with a few thousand in costs. it was more than the lawyers actually showed were related to the motion the costs were awarded for.

trust me i wont be paying that one anytime soon.

p.s. if you want a real ride, raise a subject matter jurisdicion issue in the civil court of new york city. the gruntings, pontifications and obfuscations the judge will raise will defy all belief.

for most subjects there has to be a large contingent of teachers competent to write the basic textbook materials.

make it competitive. take best of breed. augment a teachers salary abundantly for the years their textbooks are used.

if they paid an extra 20k per year of textbok use it would utilize the teachers, lower the costs and make it fit in with school procedure/style better.

this is one area where the state should be able to do better than private industry. if private industry wants the contract, set a price and make them meet it. be prepared to walk.

yeah, just like atms.

if you just said 15 years only for original owner and unextendable except by original founder(a person, no corporations) it would curb the problem.

use it or lose it. the iteration time of mass use or mass distribution is far less than historically. you should be able to, with any substantive effort, make your mark/dollars in that time.

i am hard pressed to see damage to society by shortening the feedback loop.

the moment you stop using anything from the past as a basis for your works whether or not you are cognizant of the things you take or not is the moment you can take this "i am an artist and i am special" position.

we all steal. the copyright used to be a pretty fair bargain on when you were allowed to steal what. for that period of exclusivity you gave up perpetual rights.

face it. if not for prior works you would be less consequential than you are even now.

this was a bad move by the RIAA because they didn't anyone would pay attention.

well someone did.

and it appears that enough help is being focused on particular cases that some unfortunate for the RIAA precedents have been or are going to be shortly set.

lets not stop now. but score one for the internet.

no, it really is an opportunity for all those new ideas to come out of brains and get some real world testing.

with all the hand waiving as papers fold, do you really think there is something special about the ap?

the distribution mechanism of the internet is about to make a casualty of an old guard business.

the ap isnt wonderful anymore, they just have a lock on the market that they are about to willingly give away.

the times they are a changin.

im ready. are you?