Quote: Original post by aersixb9
Just a random off topic post, but doesn't the first amendment (assuming you're in the USA) invalidate all copyright laws?
Why would it?
Quote: Original post by aersixb9
Just a random off topic post, but doesn't the first amendment (assuming you're in the USA) invalidate all copyright laws?
Richard "Superpig" Fine - saving pigs from untimely fates - Microsoft DirectX MVP 2006/2007/2008/2009
"Shaders are not meant to do everything. Of course you can try to use it for everything, but it's like playing football using cabbage." - MickeyMouse
Quote: Original post by aersixb9It says you can "bear arms", without being specific about the type. As long as you're still allowed to own some kind of weapon (may or may not be specific to firearms, I'm too lazy to check) they can disallow you from owning as many other types of weapons as they like. Not only that, but from what I understand it's not even particularly well agreed upon as to whether this right actually extends to individuals at all or to the needs of a collective militia and that there have been court ruling to support either interpretation.
especially if you factor in the second amendment (my favorite), in that the common understanding of the second amendment is that people may own weapons, however there are many laws prohibiting the ownership of say...an M-16 or a M-1. Or even my old friend, the hydrogen weapon.
Quote: The first amendment guarantees the freedom of the press - that is to say, you can print anything you want.The first part is all good. Your problem is the second half, that's just your own interpretation, and not neccesarily a correct one. It's perfectly possible to disallow the press from printing certain things (such as existing copyrighted material - although you'll note that you have "fair use" laws to allow them to use that in reasonable cases as well) without actually censoring them; they're still able to express whatever they like, they just need to do so without intruding upon the rights of others. If your position was actually defendable in court someone more knowledgable than you would have tried it by now. [wink]
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Quote: Original post by aersixb9Oooh, tough luck - I'm British.
if they're good Americans
Quote: they believe in freedoms of the press (even if they've been lied to and misinformed by the people that control the intellectual property of the media) they'll let us submit superior quality games with, say, the background music from 2001: A Space Odyssey in my game.The background music from 2001 is actually just a collection of classical pieces - the most famous being Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. The work itself is old enough that it's out of copyright, so you're free to make copies of the score, but performances of music tend to be owned by the group putting on the performance (i.e. the orchestra) so unless you can find a public domain recording you'll have to create your own (hire an orchestra and record them, or produce it electronically using a MIDI sequencer or something).
Quote: Allowing free use of unconstitutionally copyrighted materials would be a great showing of support of belief in the constitutionIf copyright were unconstitutional, it would have been struck down a looooooong time ago.
Quote: and of the true, slightly old fashioned, old-American way.That's not so interesting to all our visitors from countries outside the US - who, according to the member country listing, at least, make up over 50% of the site's membership. We have to try and take copyright law in all those other countries into account as well.
Quote: And not our current, traitorous media run government and supreme court, who should not be supported in any way, and should probably be executed or imprisoned as traitors.Well, when you've done that, let me know. Until then, those traitorous government people could sue us, confiscate our servers, or arrest us, so I think we'll play it safe for now.
Richard "Superpig" Fine - saving pigs from untimely fates - Microsoft DirectX MVP 2006/2007/2008/2009
"Shaders are not meant to do everything. Of course you can try to use it for everything, but it's like playing football using cabbage." - MickeyMouse
Quote: Original post by aersixb9
Allowing free use of unconstitutionally copyrighted materials would be a great showing of support of belief in the constitution and of the true, slightly old fashioned, old-American way. And not our current, traitorous media run government and supreme court, who should not be supported in any way, and should probably be executed or imprisoned as traitors.
Quote: Original post by aersixb9
{...} These amendments all were written to have great and powerful meaning - they weren't just dicking around! To say that the second amendment only means that you have the right to have a wooden stick is to laugh in the faces of the authors of the amendments, for that is clearly not what they meant,
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