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(Disclaimer, I'm not a lawyer, the following is opinion, observations and
conjecture) Every case I ever looked into involving copyright basicly boiled down to whether or not it passed the "book test." By that I mean the judges tend to equate the item to a book. If you buy a book you're entitled to read it, quote it under fair use (even if you don't buy it) and you can even make backup copies (though since it's usually cheaper to buy a second copy few people actually would do this) provided that only one of the books (copy or original) can be used at one time. I think the DVD screen print scenerio would fail to pass this test, since the screen print likely is still on your computer as well as on the DVD in question. The only way this would pass the book test is that once the screen print is made neither the file nor the DVD (or at least that frame) should be accessed until the print you distributed returns home. (I don't believe the distributing of the screen print, even with the intent that it's returned after being signed would constitute "fair use" but I've been wrong before.) Since you state that you have a 75% success rate that means a 25% failure rate. If everything you send is screen prints and say only half your failure items are returned that would leave you with 1/8 the DVDs you use as being "unusable" until the copied material is returned -- which we'll presume is never. It also assumes only 1 print per DVD and that those DVDs are legally purchased, not rented or illegally downloaded. Recent years, especially in software copyrights, have seen statements towards other use. Such as this software can only be installed on one computer. This seems to be more an End User Liscense issue then copyright law however. For instance, if you own a business and have a computer at home and at work that only you use copyright law does not prevent you from installing the same software on both machines (provided you don't leave one on and running the program when you're not there) since you can only be using one machine at a time. Recent licensing agreements have also circumvented this much to the chagrin of multinational companys that use to be able to share software between offices in different countrys (eg Russia office is open when US office is closed so they use the same licensing) -- but this isn't a copyright issue and also muddys the water further by dragging in international issues. Obscuring the issue even further in the US anyway is the Digital Millenium Law, which actaully seems to rescind some rights granted under the copy right law. Sue H wrote: LOL if any third party came in from outside this group and read your posts and mine, I am assured I'd not be the idiot here. LOL At least my arguments are base on legal issues which I can send URL's for, proof for etc. You apparently are not reading all my posts before you start writing. And you're so eager to keep arguing (doesn't matter if it's me or someone else), you just keep talking without reading what you already wrote. You have contradicted youself so much it's insane. PS this is my last post on the matter; people will judge for themselves. Oh by the way, WHAT college do you go to? I want to be sure I don't go there... On 16 Mar 2006 13:45:22 -0800, "barefoot" wrote: and it's probably why you are fighting with about everyone on this ng, you really show off your ass with your simplistic, idiotic arguments which have no bearing then say "lalala, i proved it and you didn't" really, is there any senility medicine you should be taking? cause you are complete ly lost and at this point, actually arguing with yourself. i don't EVER BACKPEDDLE, if i make a mistake, then i'll admit it...but at this point, you haven't shown me ****. |
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Creation is famous for being among the most expensive conventions. I have
gone to ONE of their cons and they were outrageous in price 12 years ago. I would hate to think how much they are scalping the fans just to get INTO the building now days. I know that I was only able to get almost half of the autographs that I wanted because of the nose bleed prices. The autographs that they couldn't pawn off to the people at the cons, they are now trying to make their money back by overpricing their website and eBay auctions. Take a look at their auctions and you'll see a good portion of their auctions with no bids. lol They have pretty reasonable opening bids, but a good portion of them have their reserves not met. -- Mike Gummby3 ~~ Star Collector ~~ www.star-collector.net Celebrity addresses the way they should be - free. "Sue H" wrote in message ... Pricy for some of their autographs...99 bucks up!!! On 16 Mar 2006 11:50:36 -0800, "Lone Gunman" wrote: I hate to recommend them, but Creation have soe great looking, officially licensed photos available on their website - http://www.creationent.com ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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As someone that isn't an outside poster, I can attest that this isn't the
first time that you have taken an stand against Sue. Considering Barefoot has made some questionable comments, are you sure that you're not just taking this stand of him being right because of your "queen bee" theory? So far, I haven't seen any feedback from anyone that actually knows 100% what they are talking about, including myself, on the subject of copyright. As for him "having it all over her", he says a lot of words, but it is true that he hasn't posted any facts (URLs, references, etc.) to back up his claims. I'm not saying that Barefoot is completely wrong. He might know some of what he speaks, but there are some gaps in logic in instances. I just hope that your not clouding your judgment with your "anti-Sue" campaign. -- Mike Gummby3 ~~ Star Collector ~~ www.star-collector.net Celebrity addresses the way they should be - free. "Wanda" wrote in message news:gzpSf.797$5F1.3@fed1read08... I am a third party, been around this ng for a bunch of years - used to post, but since Sue became the Queen, I stopped. But I lurk, and read everything, and have to say that Sue has gotten totally out of control. When it comes to Star Wars walk-ons, or the key grip best boy, she really knows her stuff, but her ignorance really has come thru on this post. I tried, I really tried to not post this, but Sue just had to issue the "third party" challenge. Comes right down to it, Sue, Barefoot has it all over you when it comes to knowledge of the hobby. My 2 cents worth - and hopefully Sue will take a look in the mirror and realize that she is NOT the Queen Bee! Wanda ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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dude...sue. your argument is not based on ****...you haven't provided
ANY legal issues in any way except inside your head...meanwhile EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE PLANET THAT SPEAKS ENGLISH (and many others that don't) have seen those nice, big, bold commandments at the begining of EVERY DVD, VHS TAPE, BETA TAPE, broadcast on television that says ANY DUPLICATION WITHOUT THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT FROM THE BROACAST IS PRHIBITED. and then their own language about how it's against the law, and lately, followed by the nice words spelling out EXACTLY the prison term you can expect. EVERYONE HAS SEEN THIS...stop telling me about proof you don't have. legal issues that are OLD and outdated. you have provided nothing. and i'll reiterate what i've said with my first utterance on this subject. NOTHING I SELL IS LICENSED. i alwasy follow it by the caveat that i'm not doing anything illegal yet, YET. who knows what the future holds in this area. but someone holds the licensing for STAR WARS stuff, because i got a cease and decist letter from lucasfilm...that's the ONLY notcie that i've ever gotten. the only items i've ever had kicked off of ebay or any other site i sell on. i've never contradicted myself once...please, try to tell me where i did do this...cause it's assnine that you even say it at all...you just keep tooting your own horn... again, i'm done with this argument...because it's stoopid. it's like the guy who owns the bar telling the pot dealer that he sells death. i'm done...you've offered nothing and it just looks like you're just going to keep up offereing nothing. |
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You're talking about the guy selling autopens and preprints from that
long list he posted. I get more authentic autographs through the mail than you get in-person and you can't deal with it. yankee, i highly doubt that you ever even get half of what i get in a week.. this week alone, on my own, not counting the people who work for me, just the ones i've gotten myself. i've gotten 75 signed photos, and it's only frickin thursday (and i haven't worked all that much at all)...seriously, you shouldn't be so dumb...sure, i guess john cena isn't a big star, or russell crowe (i'm sure you have his home address and have become fast friends), or keanu reeves. maybe the WORST NAMES i've gotten all week (and this is a slow week) is from the cast of WEEDS on showtime. so i guess my week sucks ass...i guess it's true, i am jealous about the signifigant autographs you get on a consistant basis. i should really just quit, cause i can't keep up with the mega star you are. gosh darnit, you got me. yankee, you are a mornon liar...enjoy your super cool status...i'm pretty sure you're just sitting in your monther's basement in the dark. let me ask you a question, do you still put your name on the soda that you bring in the house so your mom and your brother's don't drink it? you should realize that your mom pays the bills, she can drink your grape soda. |
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and trust me yankee, it's obvious that you are a liar, just trying to sell
your known fakes, that's why you are getting rid of that part of your collection "barefoot" wrote in message Moron, I don't sell anything from my collection. You're talking about the guy selling autopens and preprints from that long list he posted. I get more authentic autographs through the mail than you get in-person and you can't deal with it. |
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russell crowe (i'm sure you have his home address and have become fast
friends "barefoot" wrote in message Never met him in person, but I did send to his home in Australia and received another authentic autograph. If you get 75 autographs a week, then you are getting more than I am. I only get back about 60 a week. I've been doing this since before you were born. You still have a lot to learn. You'd be too stupid for me to teach you anything though. |
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The Stargate convention was $599 for a gold package for a three day weekend.
That included an autograph from every attending celeb, A meet and greet dinner with the celebs, a tour of both stargate sets, a talent show put on the by the celebs, and a few other little small items! Would have gladly payed it if I didn't have to pay $700 airfare and $120 a night at the hotel they require for gold packages. (not to mention food for the 3-4 days.) Would have been about $2000, alittle much in the end! "Gummby3" wrote in message ... Creation is famous for being among the most expensive conventions. I have gone to ONE of their cons and they were outrageous in price 12 years ago. I would hate to think how much they are scalping the fans just to get INTO the building now days. I know that I was only able to get almost half of the autographs that I wanted because of the nose bleed prices. The autographs that they couldn't pawn off to the people at the cons, they are now trying to make their money back by overpricing their website and eBay auctions. Take a look at their auctions and you'll see a good portion of their auctions with no bids. lol They have pretty reasonable opening bids, but a good portion of them have their reserves not met. -- Mike Gummby3 ~~ Star Collector ~~ www.star-collector.net Celebrity addresses the way they should be - free. "Sue H" wrote in message ... Pricy for some of their autographs...99 bucks up!!! On 16 Mar 2006 11:50:36 -0800, "Lone Gunman" wrote: I hate to recommend them, but Creation have soe great looking, officially licensed photos available on their website - http://www.creationent.com ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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I am trying NOT to comment but let me get back to the original post
intent so all know EXACTLY what this thread is about!!!! People have twisted it and taken bits and pieces... I've been seeing on this board is a LOT of people jumbling posts. For example you replied to me who never said anything about a 75% success rate... If I had that, I'd not have even started this thread. My success rate this year is about 20 percent give or take a couple percentage points. It sucks. The comments are appreciated; best bet would wait till experts respond (either the studios official word or a copyright lawyer). ORIGINAL INTENT OF THE ORIGNAL POST AND WHY THE HOSTILE BANTER: This subject now has steered from Barefoots' "everything I copy from that site is legal 'cause I paid for it" to focusing only on the screencaps. What the problem here is SALES of the items and the whole post started out of my concern that celebs are not signing by mail because they are receiving screen caps and other unlicensed items. THAT's the original intent of these posts and I think we all need to get back on track as this affects the hobby in a negative way: either 1) we will pay through the nose because someone paid 50 grand for a license or 2) our success rates are thwarted and we need to get licensed items in other ways. In any case, every single post on this subject including mine is conjecture and interpretation. We need to let the experts answer. And for the record, I never said screen caps were illegal. I just want clarification because I feel the screen caps "might" fall into the category of "fair use" or "personal use"; and Barefoots is DOWNRIGHT illegal and that's important to know as he keeps selling his crap here and telling people MISINFORMATION which in theory makes the buyers just as guilty. On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:19:56 GMT, "Bill Plenge" wrote: (Disclaimer, I'm not a lawyer, the following is opinion, observations and conjecture) Every case I ever looked into involving copyright basicly boiled down to whether or not it passed the "book test." By that I mean the judges tend to equate the item to a book. If you buy a book you're entitled to read it, quote it under fair use (even if you don't buy it) and you can even make backup copies (though since it's usually cheaper to buy a second copy few people actually would do this) provided that only one of the books (copy or original) can be used at one time. I think the DVD screen print scenerio would fail to pass this test, since the screen print likely is still on your computer as well as on the DVD in question. The only way this would pass the book test is that once the screen print is made neither the file nor the DVD (or at least that frame) should be accessed until the print you distributed returns home. (I don't believe the distributing of the screen print, even with the intent that it's returned after being signed would constitute "fair use" but I've been wrong before.) Since you state that you have a 75% success rate that means a 25% failure rate. If everything you send is screen prints and say only half your failure items are returned that would leave you with 1/8 the DVDs you use as being "unusable" until the copied material is returned -- which we'll presume is never. It also assumes only 1 print per DVD and that those DVDs are legally purchased, not rented or illegally downloaded. Recent years, especially in software copyrights, have seen statements towards other use. Such as this software can only be installed on one computer. This seems to be more an End User Liscense issue then copyright law however. For instance, if you own a business and have a computer at home and at work that only you use copyright law does not prevent you from installing the same software on both machines (provided you don't leave one on and running the program when you're not there) since you can only be using one machine at a time. Recent licensing agreements have also circumvented this much to the chagrin of multinational companys that use to be able to share software between offices in different countrys (eg Russia office is open when US office is closed so they use the same licensing) -- but this isn't a copyright issue and also muddys the water further by dragging in international issues. Obscuring the issue even further in the US anyway is the Digital Millenium Law, which actaully seems to rescind some rights granted under the copy right law. Sue H wrote: LOL if any third party came in from outside this group and read your posts and mine, I am assured I'd not be the idiot here. LOL At least my arguments are base on legal issues which I can send URL's for, proof for etc. You apparently are not reading all my posts before you start writing. And you're so eager to keep arguing (doesn't matter if it's me or someone else), you just keep talking without reading what you already wrote. You have contradicted youself so much it's insane. PS this is my last post on the matter; people will judge for themselves. Oh by the way, WHAT college do you go to? I want to be sure I don't go there... On 16 Mar 2006 13:45:22 -0800, "barefoot" wrote: and it's probably why you are fighting with about everyone on this ng, you really show off your ass with your simplistic, idiotic arguments which have no bearing then say "lalala, i proved it and you didn't" really, is there any senility medicine you should be taking? cause you are complete ly lost and at this point, actually arguing with yourself. i don't EVER BACKPEDDLE, if i make a mistake, then i'll admit it...but at this point, you haven't shown me ****. |
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And hey, I may be annoying to some (they're allowed to feel that) but
at least I care about the hobby and I do at least try to get facts On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:54:47 -0600, "Gummby3" wrote: As someone that isn't an outside poster, I can attest that this isn't the first time that you have taken an stand against Sue. Considering Barefoot has made some questionable comments, are you sure that you're not just taking this stand of him being right because of your "queen bee" theory? So far, I haven't seen any feedback from anyone that actually knows 100% what they are talking about, including myself, on the subject of copyright. As for him "having it all over her", he says a lot of words, but it is true that he hasn't posted any facts (URLs, references, etc.) to back up his claims. I'm not saying that Barefoot is completely wrong. He might know some of what he speaks, but there are some gaps in logic in instances. I just hope that your not clouding your judgment with your "anti-Sue" campaign. |
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