Posts by David Hood
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Hard News: NZME and you, in reply to Vivid,
As for ‘tagging’ them, a tag is nothing more than a fact about what is in a text, and facts are not copyrightable.
I think you are importing some US notions into this debate. Without wanting to make this a copyright thread that will never die, you might want to read http://www.hgmlegal.com/ideas/category/intellectual-property/no-copyright-in-compilations-and-databases/ to quote:
The New Zealand approach to “originality” with respect to compilations was clarified by the Court of Appeal in University of Waikato v Benchmarking Services Ltd [6], which held that the threshold test for originality is not high, the determining factor being whether sufficient time, skill, labour or judgement has been expended in producing the work. The Court further held that there can be no claim to any right in the information contained in the compilation where the compiler of the factual information is not the author or originator of the individual facts recorded in the compilation.
and later
It, therefore, appears that New Zealand follows the UK “sweat of the brow” approach on questions of originality. In other words, compilations and databases will attract copyright protection if sufficient time and labour has been expended in the collection, selection or arrangement of information – a low level of originality and creativity is required.
That said, yes I find it questionable about the copyright on the documents, because they are not the author, and there is a whole argument there about reproduction and publication. But the tags are, to me, clearly copyright in "sweat of the brow".
Or course, I am not a lawyer.
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To me, the core problem is that the global process of automation + centralisation + current capitalism's increasing need for profit increases, means that a lot of jobs in the area are under threat, which due to the change in number of people vs number of jobs makes it harder to make a living.
The two main responses seem to be: preserve the status quo in this particular area by subsidising this area, and the more radical "this is a general problem for everyone" that guaranteed minimum income would address. Though it is a harder, more revolutionary solution, I favour the later as it doesn't make people's livelihoods contingent on their sectors ability to lobby (which the media should be much better at than everyone else). -
I think part of the cheerfulness from the sidelines is to see what is preceived as the Tory smear machine turning inward after a week of "Corbyn is a threat to your family's security"
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And so we mark our calendars for September 2016 to see what next years iteration of the class brings.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
but I can see a loose connection,
Tories getting revenge via the media?
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Hard News: NZME and you, in reply to Moz,
In general, “pay for what you use” breaks because people don’t like knowing that everything they do has a cost
Not to mention things like link prefetching complicating things.
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Hard News: NZME and you, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
I can't help thinking that Apple's embracing of ad-blocking on iOS is only going to make things worse.
I think there is a world of discussion around this one. While I'm not running content blockers, there are genuine issues around loading times, privacy, the value of recycled content (both in terms of time, money, and frustration).
Roll on the universal basic income.
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Thinking about it, flagaghasted might be a better way of spelling it.
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Polity: So who exactly placed conditions…, in reply to chris,
With the recent poll, are the public flaggergasted.
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Hard News: A better thing to believe in, in reply to Danielle,
I can’t quite agree with this, because my grandfather was one of the finite praisers, always trying to avoid becoming a “skite”, and sure, that could be limiting in some ways, but that sort of low-key kindness is comforting, because it also means that reactions to “failures” are low-key.
This resonates with me. I think such quiet awareness can be seen in the poetry of Brian Turner and others.