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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...n the Civil Rights Act for 74 days. Filibuster is originally a Dutch word meaning "pirate, hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" meant "freebooting" ... ...Televa and Luxor of Sweden and became a consumer electronics group - manufacturing televisions and such. Nokia continued with its acquisitions ... ...ary.com suggests that it is derived from a Monty Python skit in their Flying Circus television show in 1970. In it a group of Vikings harass two pat... ...s/ea/side/teapot.html http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2851.html Television The transmission of images obsessed inventors as ea... ...iple of scanning a picture, line by line and frame by frame - still used in modern television sets - was proposed simultaneously in the USA (by W.E... ...in the USA (by W.E. Sawyer) and in France (by Maurice Leblanc). The first complete television system - using the newly discovered properties of sel...

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Class Heroes: A Class Apart

By: Stephen Henning

...ith just the right level of casual flirtatiousness, while still maintaining her television mystique. She’d been developing this little friendship s... ... the events on her brother’s ward, Samantha Blake was sitting up in bed with the television on. It was part of the baffling logic of the hospital th... ...the second time something like this had happened. As she was pondering this, the television buzzed into life. Just static, but it was nerve-jarringl... ...the plaster casts seemed to weigh a ton. She looked around her. The sound of the television was cutting through her. Her body was shivering. “Sam?”... ...ewn over the floor. He could hear his sister crying and the blaring noise of the television. “James! James please help me!” James hurried to his sis... ... “You look terrible, Stannard. The last time I saw a face like that it was on a pirate flag. Did we interrupt your beauty sleep?” “If I’d known you... ... it was a typical Sunday night. She wanted to be curled up on the sofa watching Pirates of the Caribbean with her mum and dad and James, eating pop...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...iety of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Television Archive); • museums (e.g., The J. Paul Getty Trust, The Metropo... ...s (e.g., American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...Trust); • recording artists and musicians (e.g., American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ... 39 See, e.g., Spehr (516); Kolling (527); Buck (555); UCLA Film and Television Archive (638). 40 See, e.g., Thomas (570) (describing a situat... ...ers both said the other owned rights to a particular work); UCLA Film and Television Archive (638) (describing a situation involving a 1933 feature ... ...s issue as a pretext for allowing weaker enforcement and remedies against pirate copyright operations. 388 It is our hope that this Report and fur...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...iety of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Television Archive); • museums (e.g., The J. Paul Getty Trust, The Metropo... ...s (e.g., American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...Trust); • recording artists and musicians (e.g., American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ... 39 See, e.g., Spehr (516); Kolling (527); Buck (555); UCLA Film and Television Archive (638). 40 See, e.g., Thomas (570) (describing a situat... ...ers both said the other owned rights to a particular work); UCLA Film and Television Archive (638) (describing a situation involving a 1933 feature ... ...s issue as a pretext for allowing weaker enforcement and remedies against pirate copyright operations. 388 It is our hope that this Report and fur...

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I'Ll Do Anything

By: Chrystal Kincaid

...ached the living room. An Atlanta Braves baseball game played loudly on the television. “Who’re they playing,” he asked from the entry. “Pirates... ...dly on the television. “Who’re they playing,” he asked from the entry. “Pirates,” Doug answered without looking away from the screen. He sat in ... ... Her pajama top drooped haphazard off of one shoulder as she flipped on the television. The morning news filled the room as she yawned and dug in th... ... and a talk show rerun about sisters who dated their father, Julia left the television on CNN. A reporter was wrapping her story on a nasty car acci... ...a, trying to catch as much of the action as possible. Julia frowned at the television screen, her cereal forgotten. “So far, Congressman Turner’s o... ... Media Frenzy. Julia put aside her bowl of uneaten cereal and muted the television. “It’s not our jurisdiction, Gregory.” “Hear me out,” he...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

... $99 Timex/Sinclair Z-1000 or a $199 Texas Instruments TI-99/4A could use a television set as a display, and a standard audio cassette recorder to st... ...to a limited range of applications. For example, TiV o is greatly leveraging—television viewers describe its impact on their lives as rev- olutionary—... ...ted variations in performance have long been smoothed out in refrigerators, televisions, mobile phones, and automobiles. As for PCs, telling users th... ...onality (i.e., disable all storage to and playback from a hard disk drive of television data) in all but 192,708 units of the Infringing Products that... ...o might be using them at that very instant. 10 Imagine sitting down to watch television on an EchoStar box, and instead finding that all your recorded ... ...110–11 280 and simple”); Lisa J. Beyer Sims, Mutiny on the Net: Ridding P2P Pirates of Their Booty, 53 E L.J. 1887, 1907, 1937–39 (2003) (describ... ... 96. See Doug Lichtman & David Jacobson, Anonymity a Double-Edged Sword for Pirates Online, C T., Apr. 13, 2000, at N25 (describing the musi... ... 2000, at N25 (describing the music industry’s at- tempt to “take aim at the pirates’ ships” by flooding file-sharing sites with thousands of decoy files...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...t may have been the passage of the Lex Gabinia following an attack of Mediterranean pirates on the port of Ostia in 68 BC. It granted Pompey command... ...ltant position with a firm you formerly oversaw or regulated, your own talk show on television, a cushy job in the administration? The truth is tha... ...ident Vladimir Putin warned on Tuesday, in an interview he granted to TF1, a French television channel, that unilateral American-British military ac... ... typical daily occurrence, bucking a global trend, Matsushita intends to expand its television factory in Plzen. Its investment of $8 million will e... ...between Chinese and Russian companies that provide for the assembly in Russia color televisions and household air conditioners are being successfull... ...pplied by imported Indian and Moroccan craftsmen in two of the palaces. Iraqi state television reported in June that Saddam exhorted his ministers t...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...o oneself. It is a close kin of piracy. But while the software or content pirate does not bother to hide or alter the identity of the content's creat... ...her's, or software house's data are preserved intact in the cracked copy. Pirated copies of e-books often contribute to increased sales of the print ... ...o increased sales of the print versions. Crippled versions of software or pirated copies of software without its manuals, updates and support - ofte... ...y commercial software can still be downloaded for free. In many countries television viewers still pay for television broadcasts - but in the USA an... ... but in the USA and many other countries in the West, the basic package of television channels comes free of charge. As users / consumers form a ha... ...egins to carry a price tag. This is what happened with the advent of cable television : contents are sold for subscription or per usage (Pay Per View... ...as the computer is less user friendly and less reliable (predictable) than television - less of a black box - its potential (and its future) is limit... ...came to adopt it, egged on by authors and booksellers. IV. Intellectual Pirates and Intellectual Property Despite the technological breakthroughs... ...cive copyright monopolies). Shakespeare's work was published by notorious pirates and infringers of emerging intellectual property rights. Later, the...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... the good from satisfying an infinite number of users at zero marginal cost). Pirates will copy the song, the mousetrap, the drug formula, the brand. T... ...as, at the time, thought to be dominated by foreign hackers, suicidal cults, pirates, and sleazy pornographers. (Terrorists and Nigerian spammers woul... ...ness plans relied upon showing movies in theaters and then licensing them to television stations. VCRs and Betamaxes fit nowhere in this plan; they wer... ...nt that it was a “fair use” under U.S. copyright law for consumers to record television programs for time-shifting purposes. Since fair The Internet T... ... ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 74 because they are trading in “pirated music.” Then there were nasty circum- stantial details, like the ... ...t really de- signed to protect DVDs against illicit copying. Commercial DVD “pirates” do not need to crack the CSS encryption. Quite the contrary: the... ... Mr. Johansen claimed that his goals were very dif- ferent from those of the pirates. The Farmers’ T ale 91 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 1... ...s clearly disapproving, others would point out that book- stores, movies and television channels are filled with material on how to commit mur der...an... ...ights legally? I could, after all, make a videotape of the DVD playing on my television, and use that grainy, blurry image in my documentary criticizi...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...iety of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Television Archive); • museums (e.g., The J. Paul Getty Trust, The Metropo... ...s (e.g., American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...Trust); • recording artists and musicians (e.g., American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ... 39 See, e.g., Spehr (516); Kolling (527); Buck (555); UCLA Film and Television Archive (638). 40 See, e.g., Thomas (570) (describing a situat... ...ers both said the other owned rights to a particular work); UCLA Film and Television Archive (638) (describing a situation involving a 1933 feature ... ...s issue as a pretext for allowing weaker enforcement and remedies against pirate copyright operations. 388 It is our hope that this Report and fur...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...heir children at day-care centers, after-school programs, comes home to watch television, and calls itself a family. Now the culture of ‘day care’ h... ...slaved people on Earth. Enslaved by ease and wealth and corruption. Every television commercial, every cultural dance, every cultural song, every... ...ant as the smog produced from our cars, or the constant bombardment of radio, television, and other frequencies that fill the air. Any knowledge a ... ...ld have shit-cams. It would become entirely normal to come home, turn on the television, and watch people taking a shit. And anyone who objected t... ... Read about the Medici’s. A banking family. That gave favours and money to pirates. Read how one of their clients who was formerly a pirate… bec... ... go to war? Why was it their main occupation? Because they had been roaming pirates and raiders for hundreds of years before they settled down and ... ... trickle-down theory is a trick… get it? During the last heyday of English Pirates: Captain Kidd was finally brought to justice as an outlaw priva... ...aptain Kidd was finally brought to justice as an outlaw privateer gone turned pirate. What was he hung for? For accidentally killing a mutinous sea... ...o their older cultural roots; when nearly everybody was a robber. They became pirate-states. Buccaneers. Financial pirates. Financial robbers. A...

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Love at First Stake

By: J. Morgan

... he’s not! I can’t believe I’m arguing the finer points of the plot lines to television dramas with some twit who just shoved a foot of ash into my ... ...frankly I needed the help. Not a perfect partnership, but it made for great television. I rubbed my hands together. “Okay, let’s get cracking.” “... ... can very well see. You really need to stop believing everything you see on television and read in a comic book.” Slinging the eggs from my chin, I... ...’m Buffy.” “Please, don’t even start down that road. This is not some cheesy television melodrama.” “Make you a deal. You tell me what I want to kn... ...Forbidden love never worked out. Hadn’t overused Shakespearean storylines in television sitcoms taught me that? Maybe I was just too stupid to lear... ...listened but the next dream had already started. Since it starred a certain pirate, I thought my subconscious would forgive me. Love at First Stak... ...ince I was afraid to fall asleep. I hadn’t even been able to enjoy my dream pirate. He kept turning into Dream Donnie, who kept shaking his head be...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...ll Street Journal has recently published an elegiac list: "Twenty years ago, cable television was dominated by a patchwork of thousands of tiny, fa... ...bal, the monopolists of intellectual products fight unfair competition globally. A pirate in Skopje is in direct rivalry with Bill Gates, depriving... ...tes or stands for. Actors are often mistaken for their roles, wars are fought on television, fictitious TV celebrities become real. That which ha... ...ted and disseminated virtually cost-free to the next consumer through the Internet, television, radio, and on magnetic media. MIT has recently place... ...mes). One can hardly benefit from the weather forecasts without owning a radio or a television set - which would immediately tend to exclude the ho... ...d, arid, and disadvantaged country can nowadays leverage air flight, the Internet, television, cell phones, and other miracles of technology to pro...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...rents don't care because they're completely brainwashed by watching so much television every day. It wouldn't hurt if they actually read once in a w... ...ess. Well, guess what? Now that she's been in major motion pictures and hit television series, her parents have retracted that disappointment and ar... ...ff, locking myself in my room and avoiding all the regular distractions like television, radio, even my mobile phone. I called Emilie only once this ... ...eans simply outstanding! The boat itself is actually a small replica of a — pirate ship, with all the main parts: sails, masts, a ship steering wheel... ...oon in which a man sitting on a couch and sweating profusely, yells to nine television screens in front him, collectively broadcasting ABC, CNN, FOX,...

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