Nobody Cares: PRS

[Katheryne Helendale]

Biden has been silent, and useless on labor issues, and union actions, during a year full of some of the biggest union actions in living memory. What's his stance on the Alabama coal miners? IATSE? American Apparel? Truckers? McDonalds? Deere? I hear crickets. The asshole can't even be bothered to make a statement about the teacher strike in his own home town of Scranton!

To give some credit where it's due, though... he at least gave the Kellogg workers some weak lip service the other day. He stopped short of using the term 'scab', but at least he's kinda trying to look like he's trying:

Kellogg faces pushback from Biden, Redditors as union strike continues

On top of the ongoing pressure from union employees and several Democratic lawmakers, cereal giant Kellogg can now count President Joe Biden and thousands of...

www.metrotimes.com

If the democratic party wants my continued support, they need to do a lot more, but this is a good first step from Biden.

What would you have him do, exactly? Settling private labor disputes isn't exactly within the purview of the POTUS.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

"Dad?"

Ewww!

Well, you know, they kinda like to keep things in the family.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

What would you have him do, exactly? Settling private labor disputes isn't exactly within the purview of the POTUS.

Y’all just had four years of some bigmouth overextending his powers with regard to whateverthefuck was on FOX that morning anyway. Yeah, more drama pls. Not.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Neighbour of yours, Beebo Brink ?

Man taken to hospital after oxygen tank explodes

A man was taken to the hospital Thursday afternoon after an oxygen tank exploded, 911 dispatchers confirm.

www.wsaz.com

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Melania Trump launches NFT platform in first public endeavor since White House

Melania Trump is getting in on the latest crypto craze -- NFTs.

www.cnn.com

Not enough reactions!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Russia issues list of demands it says must be met to lower tensions in Europe

Contentious security guarantees Moscow is seeking include a ban on Ukraine from entering Nato

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

Vladimir Putin has demanded that the west provide Russia “legal guarantees” of its security. But the Kremlin’s aggressive proposals are likely to be rejected in western capitals as an attempt to formalise a new Russian sphere of influence over eastern Europe.

The demands, spelled out by Moscow in full for the first time, were handed over to the US this week. They include a demand that Nato remove any troops or weapons deployed to countries that entered the alliance after 1997, which would include much of eastern Europe, including Poland, the former Soviet countries of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and the Balkan countries.

Dmitri Trenin, the head of the Carnegie Moscow Center, wrote that Russia’s public release of its proposed agreements “may suggest that Moscow [rightly] considers their acceptance by west unlikely”.

“This logically means that [Russia] will have to assure its security single-handedly, most probably by mil-tech [military technical] means,” he wrote.

Western countries have warned that Russia may be preparing an invasion of Ukraine in January as Russian tanks, artillery and missiles have massed near borders. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has called on the west for additional aid in case Russia decides to launch a broader offensive.

 

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[Argent Stonecutter]

https://twitter.com/NFTtheft

 

[bubblesort]

https://twitter.com/NFTtheft

One thing I have wondered about... an NFT is just a receipt, right? It might seem like a derivative work, of the thing it is a receipt for, to you and me, but what does the law say? I mean, if I go to wal mart and buy a picture with Mickey Mouse on it, Disney gets royalties for the mouse, but wal mart doesn't pay royalties for printing the receipt for selling the mouse.

I am not defending selling NFTs on intellectual property you don't own. That is clearly wrong. I am just wondering if that practice is legal, right now.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

If you buy a work of art you only get a physical copy. The artist retains all other rights unless they explicitly transfer them.
When you buy an NFT you are buying a single copy with a digital Certificate of Authenticity. You don't get any other tights to the underlying intellectual property.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

One thing I have wondered about... an NFT is just a receipt, right? It might seem like a derivative work, of the thing it is a receipt for, to you and me,

Nah, a receipt isn't a derivative work. There's none of the creative content of the original work in it.

When you buy an NFT you are buying a single copy with a digital Certificate of Authenticity. You don't get any other tights to the underlying intellectual property.

Actually, it's "You don't get any rights to the underlying intellectual property."

 

[bubblesort]

If you buy a work of art you only get a physical copy. The artist retains all other rights unless they explicitly transfer them.
When you buy an NFT you are buying a single copy with a digital Certificate of Authenticity. You don't get any other tights to the underlying intellectual property.

So I can sell all the Mickey Mouse NFTs I want? I mean, Disney is pretty litigious, I'm sure their legal teams can find a way to make almost anything illegal, but hypothetically, it shouldn't infringe on anybody's IP if I sold a thousand Mickey Mouse NFTs? Maybe it's like photographing architecture? Like, I can photograph almost anything from a public sidewalk in America, and I retain all IP rights to that photograph, even though others own buildings that might appear in it, and the architectural designs of the buildings.

LOL, NFTs are so weird.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Disney will hit you for trademark and copyright violations so fast it will make your head spin. Once you publish a copy of their image on your site to sell it that violates copyright. Using character names to describe your sale violates trademark.

 

[danielravennest]

LOL, NFTs are so weird.

I'm so glad I got out of the crypto world in 2017-early'18. Now I can watch all the crazy from the sidelines.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Nah, a receipt isn't a derivative work. There's none of the creative content of the original work in it.



Actually, it's "You don't get any rights to the underlying intellectual property."

If you bought it from the copyright owner you get Public Display rights. Those transfer automatically. All other rights required explicit contracts to transfer.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

So I can sell all the Mickey Mouse NFTs I want?

Only if you don't have them pointing to an actual picture of Mickey Mouse. And even then I think trademark law might be an issue.

If you bought it from the copyright owner you get Public Display rights. Those transfer automatically. All other rights required explicit contracts to transfer.

But there's nothing in an NFT that provides any attestation that the person you bought it from had those rights.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

But there's nothing in an NFT that provides any attestation that the person you bought it from had those rights.

That's where IP lawyers are about to make some big bucks.

The seller implies that they have a legal right to the IP by offering it for sale (merchantability). Buyers are expected to exercise reasonable caution.

If they do not hold those rights it would most likely be the same as selling a stolen physical copy of an artwork.

The IP holder can try to sue both the seller and the purchaser if they display or publish the work. The buyer could lose if they ignored signs that would indicate to a reasonable buyer that the work was stolen (like buying an NFT of a Disney property from a third party without documentation that Disney had licensed the IP).

The buyer can also sue the seller for misrepresenting ownership either expressly or by omission.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

ommission

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I teach writing, not spelling.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I teach writing, not spelling.

Reminds me of this SF story I read ages ago where they described an alien researcher in terms of a historical explorer of Earth, that despite being a brilliant and educated individual, the natives considered him a full grown child who needed to be watched at all times or they would get bitten by the next poisonous snake or eaten by a leopard.

Okay now it looks like I'm calling you a full grown idiot. Not my intent but if it's taken that way: LOL