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16 minutes ago, Bookman said:

Spencer Cox has no future in the GOP. He should have simply denied that he sent the campaign email. 95% of Republicans would have believed him. 

 

i was hacked !!!!

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Flashback: it was this weekend in 2016 when Hillary passed out at an outdoor event, adding credibility to the dotard's claims about her health.  That changed the trajectory of the election. 

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That could come in handy for all of those times when you're picked up off the street, incapacitated, and then vaccinated against your will. Granted, they would have to go through your wallet to find that card, but I'm sure they would respect your wishes at that point. Seven dollars well spent.

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How’s that design?

looks great, but I think we had better get a third American flag in there.  The 3 flag Trump thanksgiving banner space is underserved and the 2 flag Trump banner space is very crowded. Our business strategy is to enter into the emerging markets. 

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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

How’s that design?

looks great, but I think we had better get a third American flag in there.  The 3 flag Trump thanksgiving banner space is underserved and the 2 flag Trump banner space is very crowded. Our business strategy is to enter into the emerging markets. 

3 different wind directions as well.

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

Again, we should have been able to come up with this.

2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

 

We need to come up with a version where he’s unhappy and sell them after the election.  Probably make a killing on it.  I would hang one up.

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7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Again, we should have been able to come up with this.

We need to come up with a version where he’s unhappy and sell them after the election.  Probably make a killing on it.  I would hang one up.

 

i have an idea 

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:

That could come in handy for all of those times when you're picked up off the street, incapacitated, and then vaccinated against your will. Granted, they would have to go through your wallet to find that card, but I'm sure they would respect your wishes at that point. Seven dollars well spent.

that's why the smart ones just wear the red hats. duh.

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4 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

How’s that design?

looks great, but I think we had better get a third American flag in there.  The 3 flag Trump thanksgiving banner space is underserved and the 2 flag Trump banner space is very crowded. Our business strategy is to enter into the emerging markets. 

I'm going to put you out of business by adding a fourth flag on the other side to balance things out.  Four flags, you feel me?  No one can beat that.

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6 hours ago, Red Five said:

That could come in handy for all of those times when you're picked up off the street, incapacitated, and then vaccinated against your will. Granted, they would have to go through your wallet to find that card, but I'm sure they would respect your wishes at that point. Seven dollars well spent.

I'm tempted to try and sell some for $4.99, but I'm worried about some jackwagon jumping  into the market at $3.99. Classic "seven minute abs" scenario.

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This is a Trump quote from an appearance with Moms for Liberty.

Think of it, your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation,” Trump falsely claimed, misrepresenting the complex and highly regulated process of gender-affirming health care for minors in the United States.

The school decides what’s going to happen with your child. And many of these childs, 15 years later say, what the hell happened? Who did this to me? They say, who did this to me? It’s incredible,” Trump said.

 

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5 minutes ago, Satchel said:

This is a Trump quote from an appearance with Moms for Liberty.

Think of it, your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation,” Trump falsely claimed, misrepresenting the complex and highly regulated process of gender-affirming health care for minors in the United States.

The school decides what’s going to happen with your child. And many of these childs, 15 years later say, what the hell happened? Who did this to me? They say, who did this to me? It’s incredible,” Trump said.

 

I know this has been said more times than there are numbers to count, but how the fuck is he still a candidate for president and how can millions of people vote for him? There is not enough capacity in the most powerful computer in the world to list the craziness that he has said and done. And yet here we are with a legit chance that he will win in November. Other than people are idiots, there is no reasonable answer. There truly cannot be that many brainless idiots in this country... or I guess there are. Just had to rant for a second. 

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21 hours ago, Blotto said:

I'm tempted to try and sell some for $4.99, but I'm worried about some jackwagon jumping  into the market at $3.99. Classic "seven minute abs" scenario.

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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

 

Trump needs an Orlando type so he can have a clean name on the liquor license. Of course in Trump world, there's a much greater chance the front ends up being a criminal as well.

 

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23 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

 

Put it right next to the 2021 Hang Mike Pence gallows ornament 

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4 hours ago, Mo Horn said:

I know this has been said more times than there are numbers to count, but how the fuck is he still a candidate for president and how can millions of people vote for him? There is not enough capacity in the most powerful computer in the world to list the craziness that he has said and done. And yet here we are with a legit chance that he will win in November. Other than people are idiots, there is no reasonable answer. There truly cannot be that many brainless idiots in this country... or I guess there are. Just had to rant for a second. 

It would be hilarious were it not so serious. Is this karma from drumming Thomas Eagleton and Howard Dean out for their “transgressions”?

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I know this has been said more times than there are numbers to count, but how the fuck is he still a candidate for president and how can millions of people vote for him? There is not enough capacity in the most powerful computer in the world to list the craziness that he has said and done. And yet here we are with a legit chance that he will win in November. Other than people are idiots, there is no reasonable answer. There truly cannot be that many brainless idiots in this country... or I guess there are. Just had to rant for a second. 

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President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho was a much better president that DoTArd. Macho actually cared about his constituents and listened to people (well one person) smarter than him in an attempt to actually make things better. 

DOTarD, not so much. 

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Couldn’t help myself, listened to the lex Friedman podcast with the shit head. He’s just not bright and really showed his ass on the Epstein segment, but of course gets a pass. 

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So, referring to the multitude of copyright infringement lawsuits Trumpco is defending, one of the oldest is Eddy Grant's, for Trump's unlicensed use of Electric Avenue.

He's actually raising a defense, that probably isn't too common in these suits.

Grant alleges ownership of copyright in the music and lyrics, which is the subject of one registration, as well as a registration in the actual performance/recording of the song itself.

Apparently, though, the copyright in the performed version was registered as part of an album by Warner Brothers.  That's actually normal, as the record company usually registers and initially owns that copyright, as they usually pay for the studio and producer.  It is these rights, in addition to "master recordings" that artists usually buy back, or get back as part of the recording contract.

In this case, however, Grant had already independently recorded Electric Avenue and then licensed it to Warner, who released it as part of a greatest hits album and registered the copyright.  All that is fine, but there is a question as to whether the album registration extends to the single preexisting song Electric Avenue.  Normally, it would, because the record company initially owns the copyright in everything in the recording except music and lyrics, but this presents an oddball case.

I suppose that having one of the two registrations may halve the damage award to which Grant is entitled.  So Trump is still gonna pay, or be ordered to pay, the question becomes how much.

I don't think this scenario will be common at all, but copyright stuff can be weird, especially the way they are registered by various parties in the music game.

 

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9 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

In this case, however, Grant had already independently recorded Electric Avenue and then licensed it to Warner, who released it as part of a greatest hits album and registered the copyright.  All that is fine, but there is a question as to whether the album registration extends to the single preexisting song Electric Avenue.  Normally, it would, because the record company initially owns the copyright in everything in the recording except music and lyrics, but this presents an oddball case.

 

So this is randomly something I actually know a little about, having released music, but it is probably more common than you would think. The big question is really just going to be the language of the license agreement between Grant and WB, typically it will specify that it's very restricted to specific things (ie. physical CD's), and if so, then it depends how Turnips people are using it, if they are streaming for example, the provenance of that copy, etc... And I don't know the specifics obviously but Grant typically would get performance royalties regardless.

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16 minutes ago, G650 said:

 

So this is randomly something I actually know a little about, having released music, but it is probably more common than you would think. The big question is really just going to be the language of the license agreement between Grant and WB, typically it will specify that it's very restricted to specific things (ie. physical CD's), and if so, then it depends how Turnips people are using it, if they are streaming for example, the provenance of that copy, etc... And I don't know the specifics obviously but Grant typically would get performance royalties regardless.

This is a truly bizarre thing.  In the normal case, a registration to a collective or compilation work (an album, collection of short stories, etc.) extends to each individual work making up the compilation.  That, however, seems to assume that the registrant of the compilation also owns each individual, constituent work, which in the case of a sound recording, would be the case when a record company puts an artist in the studio to cut the songs making up the album.  In that case, the registration for the album of say eight songs, also covers each of the eight songs, as singles or however you want to consider them.

But, in this case, Warner was only Grant's licensee (not owner) when it registered the copyright and didn't pay the musicians, producer, or for studio time.  So, there may not be a registration for the sound recording for the song "Electric Avenue."  It appears, though, that Grant has applied for such a registration in the meantime.

The license to Warner expired after five years and everything reverted to Grant.  

There's a lot of informality in the whole copyright registration process that often doesn't hold up to scrutiny in court and makes things a free-for-all.  And it's made somewhat extra-bizarre because the US is the only country that requires registration of copyright, so it may kind of put non-Americans behind the 8-ball a bit.  Then again, the US drives pretty much everything commercially, so  . . . . 

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Yeah, let's spend a few hundred thousand bucks fighting a complex copyright case just so we can continue to use fucking "Electric Avenue."  Very stable genius indeed ... 

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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

So, referring to the multitude of copyright infringement lawsuits Trumpco is defending, one of the oldest is Eddy Grant's, for Trump's unlicensed use of Electric Avenue.

He's actually raising a defense, that probably isn't too common in these suits.

Grant alleges ownership of copyright in the music and lyrics, which is the subject of one registration, as well as a registration in the actual performance/recording of the song itself.

Apparently, though, the copyright in the performed version was registered as part of an album by Warner Brothers.  That's actually normal, as the record company usually registers and initially owns that copyright, as they usually pay for the studio and producer.  It is these rights, in addition to "master recordings" that artists usually buy back, or get back as part of the recording contract.

In this case, however, Grant had already independently recorded Electric Avenue and then licensed it to Warner, who released it as part of a greatest hits album and registered the copyright.  All that is fine, but there is a question as to whether the album registration extends to the single preexisting song Electric Avenue.  Normally, it would, because the record company initially owns the copyright in everything in the recording except music and lyrics, but this presents an oddball case.

I suppose that having one of the two registrations may halve the damage award to which Grant is entitled.  So Trump is still gonna pay, or be ordered to pay, the question becomes how much.

I don't think this scenario will be common at all, but copyright stuff can be weird, especially the way they are registered by various parties in the music game.

 

The semester I took copyright law was one of the worst for me.  I remember the guy across the aisle from me looking over at me and saying, "When are we going to talk about the Beatles?"  

 

Best we got was George Harrison, and it still was mind-numbing.

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7 minutes ago, dcbc said:

The semester I took copyright law was one of the worst for me.  I remember the guy across the aisle from me looking over at me and saying, "When are we going to talk about the Beatles?"  

 

Best we got was George Harrison, and it still was mind-numbing.

I was once involved in a suit involving the proper credit and royalties for "Beth" by KISS.  I was a baby lawyer back then.  Co-defendants included all of the original members of the band, and the plaintiff made noise about taking Gene Simmons' deposition.  At the time, I told the partner I was working with "if that depo happens, we have to do one thing: cross-notice the deposition and issue a subpoena duces tecum requiring Gene to produce Shannon Tweed at the depo."

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Alas, the nutbar plaintiff flaked out and the case went away.

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

I was once involved in a suit involving the proper credit and royalties for "Beth" by KISS.  I was a baby lawyer back then.  Co-defendants included all of the original members of the band, and the plaintiff made noise about taking Gene Simmons' deposition.  At the time, I told the partner I was working with "if that depo happens, we have to do one thing: cross-notice the deposition and issue a subpoena duces tecum requiring Gene to produce Shannon Tweed at the depo."

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Alas, the nutbar plaintiff flaked out and the case went away.

If this were a choose your own adventure story, I would have chosen a different ending.

 

Also, if Gene in a depo is anything like Gene as the lawyer in Extract threatening to settle the case by slamming the corporate rep's balls in a door, that would have made for some good stories.  But Shannon would have been better,  and now I'm going to need to watch Hot Dog: The Movie! tonight.

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1 hour ago, dcbc said:

The semester I took copyright law was one of the worst for me.  I remember the guy across the aisle from me looking over at me and saying, "When are we going to talk about the Beatles?"  

 

Best we got was George Harrison, and it still was mind-numbing.

My Sweet Lord. 

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5 hours ago, Gap03 said:

Yeah, let's spend a few hundred thousand bucks fighting a complex copyright case just so we can continue to use fucking "Electric Avenue."  Very stable genius indeed ... 

And he's still gonna lose.

ETA:  This concerns only his past use.  It seems they are seeking statutory damages, so a max of $150k per work infringed.  Although both the copyright registrations are for Electric Avenue, I think they are regarded as two separate works for statutory damages purposes.

So, yeah if Trumpco is successful, they might halve the damage award.  But they're going to spend at least that fucking with it.

And probably still get tagged with attorneys fees for half the case at least.

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when i was in undergrad, i worked at the law firm that represented the verve in their lawsuit with the rolling stones over bitter sweet symphony. not that cool a story bro.

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