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Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 8:38amSanction this postReply
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Beautifully done, Richard!

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Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 10:20amSanction this postReply
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Good thing those were kept elsewhere...;-)

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Monday, March 22, 2010 - 11:46amSanction this postReply
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The parable is funny, it reminds me of something Mark Steyn might write. Or Victor Davis Hanson:

The Fedopus has far more than eight tentacles.

From the submission:
(Note from the Editor: Richard posted this story to his Facebook page on 3/19/10. An hour after it posted, his wonderful John Galt video series was targeted by a an outfit called Wolters Kluwer Health for copyright violations. Wolters claims all of Richard's videos are in violation. Richard thinks it's a coincidence. I don't.)
I am not sure what the complaint is, that Dutch conglomerates don't have a right to their intellectual property, that so-called Objectivists have a special right to infringe on the works of Ayn Rand, or that using the law to battle ideological plagiarism is fighting dirty?

In any case, it was fun while it lasted.


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Monday, March 22, 2010 - 4:25pmSanction this postReply
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They claimed rights violations in all 29 videos, a highly specious accusation, Ted.

My take is that this outfit has already been approved by King Obama and His Court to be a Federally approved health care insurance provider to the American serfs.


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Monday, March 22, 2010 - 5:03pmSanction this postReply
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I am all for breaking the law, Teresa, so long as one is willing to pay the consequences.

The bottom line is that no matter how sympathetic we may be to a fellow traveller, Gleaves' infringed on both the audio and the visual copyright, and hence was in the wrong to begin with. He would have no right to complain that the owners acted at their own convenience, whether they were Nazis or Girl Scouts or the Disney corporation. He could be sued for damages. To complain that Kluwers publishing took advantage of this is like saying that it was unfair of the police to wait until he left the bar drunk to pull him over, or that the only reason Victoria's Secret was able to have him arrested for shoplifting was because in wearing their bra and panties he stood out so plainly among the legitimate customers.

My guess is that he tripped a search engine. They probably pay someone to handle just this sort of thing. As a high end publishing conglomerate Kluwers is the sort of company that has to take infringement seriously.



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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 8:09amSanction this postReply
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Why does Dr. Who hate me quite so much?

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 8:45amSanction this postReply
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Don't start this victimhood nonsense again, Richard. I said that your recent article was funny. It is. I said that you infringed on the copyrights of both the audio and the images used in your YouTube video. You did.

If you don't want to be subject to criticism based on fact and law and Objectivist belief in property rights then don't submit your work - or the work of others to which you have no right - to an Objectivist forum.



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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 8:55amSanction this postReply
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I didn't submit this and discovered it reposted here without my permission, so who's violating who's copyright, Who? I told you and Teresa I had no interest in this board any longer-- I ask her not to repost my articles here any more.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 9:01amSanction this postReply
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In fact, this entire web site seems devoted to reposting other people's articles in violation of their copyrights and without their permission, so I don't see where you have a leg to stand on. Shall I list the intellectual property of others that you've reposted here and ask you to show where you have received permission to do so? No? Then you do understand the concept of fair use and educational purposes and you're just dicking with me to be a jerk. Mission accomplished.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 9:12amSanction this postReply
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I mean, goodness, your last message even includes ripped off video from Viacom's "South Park" so I don't know how you miss choking on your own hypocrisy.
(Edited by Richard Gleaves on 3/23, 9:14am)


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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 10:17amSanction this postReply
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The issues may be complicated, but I am sure you can handle them with some effort. The South Park clip posted above is a thirty second excerpt, not an entire work. It falls under fair use as it illustrates the dangers of opposing an intellectual property conglomerate. You seem to have missed that point. Your second-hand John Galt "creation" is, on the other hand, an entire derivative work, the rights to which are explicitly reserved to the owner. You apparently don't know the distinction.

And my point was not that you should not have done what you did, but that there is no basis for complaint if the owner has the work removed from YouTube according to YouTube's policy. The embeded works you see here are simply links to outside portals. The person who uploads materials to those portals in the first place is the one responsible for permissions. Posting embed code here is a link to a publicly available YouTube address, not an actual upload of copyrighted material on mine or RoR's behalf. You, on the other hand, actually uploaded the copyrighted sound file from the protected medium to the web yourself. Perceptually, the embeds here resemble your uploads. Conceptually there is a huge difference. This is yet again a vital distinction you either fail or chose not to recognize.

As for your supposedly not ever posting here again, who, exactly, forced your hand in post five? Your complaint is apparently with the person who posted your Octopus parable, not with me, except for the fact that I have taken you seriously.

There are plenty of interesting issues of law here. But you have not addressed them, and seem to be entirely ignorant of them. There are relevant Objectivist principles, but you seem to be interested in emotionalism, claiming the mantle of victimhood, and mere yuh-huh / nuh-uh gainsaying. No, I don't hate you. You have some skill, as I noted in my first post. It will be enjoyable to examine your own creations, should you ever produce them.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 10:47amSanction this postReply
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Wolters Klewart had my videos removed over a 1 second long clip in one out of 29 ten minute works, far less than you've claimed as "Fair Use" above, yet you take their side?

As to the derivative nature of the work, I make no beans about it-- I am competing with the holders of the dramatization rights to AS who have publicly declared no interest in filming the speech as they find it undramatic. I begged to differ and before I ever began my project had correspondence Mr. Aglioloro who holds the rights. At the very worst, my product is an advertisement for the future film and if it is considered in any way an infringement, Lion's Gate or the Baldwins are free to contact me and I am glad to take it down. I've made that clear. It's certainly no business of yours.

As to this site being merely portals to other people's copyrighted work, my blog is here: richardgleaves.blogspot.com

Teresa should link to my page so I get traffic rather than copy and paste my text to this site. I don't care to add value to RebirthofReason thanks to you. You attack me whenever my name is printed here, and since I consider you an integral part of this site I wash my hands of RoR. If I hadn't been looking for 'RealClearPolitics.com' and my browser hadn't autocompleted and sent me here, I would have had no idea that my work was being reposted without my knowledge.

I hope all is well with the others-- Teresa please remove any works of mine from this site. Peace.



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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 10:51amSanction this postReply
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--It will be enjoyable to examine your own creations, should you ever produce them.--

Dude, ask my agent-- I bring more original work into this world before breakfast than most people do in their entire lifetime. Ugh-- how can the people here stand you. I'm gone.
(Edited by Richard Gleaves on 3/23, 10:56am)


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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 12:04pmSanction this postReply
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Richard,
I have definitely enjoyed some of your creations and sanctioned them.  But I don't mistake the cheerleaders for the players on the field.  Ted is definitely one of the players on the field.  Though, many do go to the game to watch the cheerleaders.


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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 3:09pmSanction this postReply
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There is only one person here who is infringing on anyone's rights, and the fact that he pays lip service to the principles of John Galt doesn't give him the right to violate those same principles. Wolters Kluwer and Blackwell Audio don't lose their intellectual rights because the infringer calls himself an Objectivist. The conglomerate has exercised its rights. How does that make anyone a victim? How does recognizing this constitute an attack? Any attempt to frame this as a question of "sides" and "attacks" is an attempt to replace facts with emotion and loyalty to the facts with loyalty to a clique. That suggests to me a failure to understand John Galt's message.

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