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armand @2irl4u, @thetrashapp
SILENTLY ENDORSE Senator
@ThomTillis
IN MASSIVE UNLICENSED MUSIC acquisition#safeharbor THRU @CopyrightOffice READ @Techdirt RE. #dmca #dmca1201 #dmca512
Dancing
Baby cha-chas from Internet to Network TV PRE-CURSER 'Dancing WITH THE PRO CHOICE RIGHT TO LIFE' STARS BIOCLOCK, TIK TOKING CALISTA ALLY MCBEAL FLOCKHART, THROUGH HALLUCINATORY ANIMATRONIC FEVERDREAM, DREAMED BY 'YOU CAN SEE THE COCAINE ON THE EDIT BAY' DIRECTOR CAST DREAMTEAM, WHOSE MUSIC COPYRIGHT LICENSE WAS GRANDFATHERED-IN BY ABE LINCOLN UNDER THE EMANCIPATION 'WHAT ARE MECHANICALS'? PROCLAMATION,
WHEREIN
ALL UNINTENDED MEDIA IS HEREBY GRANTED SEPARATE BUT EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER UNWRITTEN LAWS, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS ITS ENFRANCHISEMENT MONETIZATION IS DEEMED DISENFRANCHISEMENT AND CARPETBAGGERS PEOPLE THE INVISIBLE OFFICES WHERE THEIR DIRTY WORK IS NEVER UNDONE, UNREGULATED BY LACK OF COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED AND LACKING ALL INTREPID MOTIVATION, DO SLOG THROUGH SECRET, SECRET,LY-FUNDED DIRTY MAGNILOQUENT OBFUSCATION ...
AND WHEN AND
WHERE STEPHEN FOSTER'S CAMPTOWN LADIES, ONCE 'SANG THEIR SONG' TO MAKE ME FORGET ME , MY SICK WIFE'S CARETAKER'S NEWS OF HER LAUDANUM SLUMBER, AND WHERE I DID, SO FREELY WITHOUT INFRINGEMENT, OR CENSOR OF AGENCY - WHO WASN'T THERE - LIKE THE BABY - AND WHO NOW OWES, I AM TOLD, STEPHEN FOSTER, LYRICALLY INCORRECT, MELODIOUSLY OVERRIDING ITS BEAUTIFUL DREAMER'S COLORED HAIR, THOUGH SOME WILL SAY, 'QUAINTLY SENTIMENTAL,' HIS ANTEBELLUM FANTASY OF HAPPY SLAVES LONGING FOR MASSA IN THOSE COTTONFIELDS OF HOME.
O! BUT CAN I SEE THEM ALL GET ROTTEN (AND YET ANOTHER STRANGE PRESENTIMENT NOT ABOUT STRANGELY UNREMARKED BY SPIRIT ACCORDING TO WIFE AND OTHER FRIENDS OF SOME FOOLISH PEN AUTHOR UNDER THE NAME OF J.W.B., WHOSE THESPIAN DREAMS IT SEEMS, UNLIKE MR. FOSTER'S BEAUTEOUS VERSION, SEEM TO HARBOR AN UNTENANTED DISAVOWAL OF THE EQUALITY WHICH I HAVE WON BUT WHICH I FEAR MANY OF HIS FURTIVE UNFOUNDED, AND MOST CONCERNING, UNFAMILIAR ILK WOULD AFFIRM WITH NO OBEISANCE TO THEIR TRUTH BUT ONLY TO THEIR MISSION, FOR WHOSE FLAG THEY PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE ONLY, AND WHOSE SEDITION AND CALUMNY, I KNOW AS I PEN THIS, I WILL PERISH: THEIR HANDS HOLD THE WEAPON, BUT MY ACTIONS PULL THE TRIGGER ... AND HAPPILY ...
AUTHOR OF OLD FOLKS AT HOME, OLD SUSANA AND OTHER DOO DAH FAVORITE DESERT ISLAND DISCS 'OL STOVEPIPE' LOVES ...
THEY OWE HIM FOR HIS EFFORTS IN EXCESS OF $299, AND JUST FROM THAT UNHOLY GENTLEMAN OF NORTH CAROLINA, THE MOST RACIST OF THE CAROLINA'S IT SHALL BE PROVEN SAYS SPIRIT. AND IT SHALL BE HIS HERITAGE WHICH PROVE IT, SAYS SPIRIT, AND GOOD FRIEND SHELBEY FOOTE -- PASS ME A DRAM.
RIBALD, CONFEDERATE NOTE-MOTIVATED, SENATOR THOM TILLER AND HIS BONUS-GRABBING STAFF, NARY A COLORED FACE TO BREAK STRIDE --CATCH AND HIDE-- PLAYED IN OFFICE ON THAT OTHER THOMAS'S EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE, AT 78 RPMS . . .
WIFE NEEDS SQUIRREL BROTH
& Row V Wade FOREVER Swamp ca. 1998 SAN
FRANCISCO
Internet-savvy animation fans have known about The
Dancing Baby for years; he populates hundreds of Websites and has been
the subject of untold numbers of e-mail missives.
Who is this toddler, who boogies to your
favorite tunes wearing nothing but his diaper?
- He is a figment of
Michael Girard's imagination.
- "The dancing baby," he said,
"actually goes back to an initial cha-cha motion that I created as a
demo file years ago."
- The baby was one of several sample animation files
he created to show off his animation software product, Kinetix
Character Studio.
The foot-loose infant's star rose soon after.Copies of the diapered dancer now animate computer screens across the Internet.
- CBS's "Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel" profiled the baby on its show last week.
- And
Hollywood recently seized on the baby as a plot device on "Ally
McBeal."
- "Ally McBeal's" co-executive producer, Jeffrey Kramer, said the
show had been looking for ideas to explore Ally's biological clock.
- "We
use fantasy elements in the show, and what better biological clock than
to see this little baby who comes in as an apparition and haunts her,"
he said.
- Scene from "Ally McBeal" The Dancing Baby has appeared on the Fox program "Ally McBeal"
- Animation, of course, is not new.
- The
breakthrough in his product is that Character Studio builds animations
on a standard home computer, making it possible for amateur animators to
play with sophisticated motions.
- Janelle Brown, culture writer
for Wired News, calls the dancing baby a "meme," which Wired defines as
"a contagious idea" -- like the kids of the "South Park" comedy series,
and "Max Headroom" before them.
- "These kinds of funny animations
and jokes and little projects have always proliferated on the Web, and
they've always been very much a 'Web thing,'" Brown said.
- But the baby isn't just a Web thing anymore.
- The child has been let out of cyberspace, and into the mainstream.
Senator Thom Tillis Pushed Awful Patent Reform Idea Last Year; Now Looks To Top It With Awful Copyright
Reform This Year
Last year, Senator Thom Tillis was pushing a completely ridiculous patent reform bill that would have enabled massive patent trolling, by expanding what would count as patent-eligible subject matter.
After his bill was released -- and basically everyone who wasn't a patent troll explained what a disaster it would be for American innovation, Tillis quietly let the matter drop.
Given that experience, you might think that Tillis would think twice before stepping into the even more fraught arena of copyright reform. And yet, Tillis has been champing at the bit to change the DMCA to make Hollywood happier with it. Now, there are lots of complaints to be made about the DMCA.
Section 512 enables blatant censorship and puts tremendous pressure on platforms to take down non-infringing content.
It also favors larger platforms which can deal with a barrage of takedowns over smaller upstarts.
Section 1201 of the DMCA is utter garbage and makes it "infringing" to merely talk about ways to remove DRM -- even if the underlying reason for doing so is non-infringing.
There are obvious ways to fix both of those.
But, instead, Tillis and his staff seem ultra focused on making Section 512 worse and importing awful ideas like the EU Copyright Directive, which forces platforms into being Hollywood's personal police, and bringing in dangerous, censorial ideas like "notice and staydown," which would require expensive and unreliable internet filters.
While he's made some nod towards perhaps making a few cosmetic changes to 1201 as a "trade" for making 512 that much worse, the overall impact of what's being discussed would be terrible.
1201 would remain in some form, and what few exceptions would be made would be minimal in impact. But bringing in things like "notice and staydown" for 512 would inevitably lead to much more censorship.
It's unclear why Tillis is rushing headlong into this debate, when it seems that neither he nor his staffers grasp the details of how copyright works. Given how silly and uninformed Tillis came out of last year's attempt to pass a patent bill, it's bizarre that his office hasn't bothered to be more careful on the copyright front before leaping into that arena.
–The Techdirt Team
Filed Under: copyright, copyright reform, dmca, dmca 1201, dmca 512, eu copyright directive, notice and staydown, notice and takedown, patent reform, patents, thom tillis
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Mar 2nd 2020
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@2irl4u Got iPhone. WATCH WHAT ya GOT VIA #SPAIN @CopyrightOffice @extremelysquid US #TAKEDOWN #DANCINGBaby from #AllyMcBeal by Senator @Tillis1Percent #Patent- #CopyrightReform READ @techdirt_news #MikeMasnick hurry https://t.co/UnM7f9YYIf - https://t.co/2MU3XYIgLX
— mrjyn (@mrjyn) 19 de septiembre de 2020#OkBoomer DEFIES #takedown #staydown - WHILE armand @2irl4u, @thetrashapp SILENTLY ENDORSE Senator @ThomTillis IN MASSIVE UNLICENSED MUSIC acquisition#safeharbor THRU @CopyrightOffice READ @Techdirt RE. #dmca #dmca1201 #dmca512
Dancing Baby cha-chas from Internet to Network TV PRE-CURSER 'Dancing WITH THE PRO CHOICE RIGHT TO LIFE' STARS BIOCLOCK, TIK TOKING CALISTA ALLY MCBEAL FLOCKHART, THROUGH HALLUCINATORY ANIMATRONIC FEVERDREAM, DREAMED BY 'YOU CAN SEE THE COCAINE ON THE EDIT BAY' DIRECTOR CAST DREAMTEAM, WHOSE MUSIC COPYRIGHT LICENSE WAS GRANDFATHERED-IN BY ABE LINCOLN UNDER THE EMANCIPATION 'WHAT ARE MECHANICALS'? PROCLAMATION,
WHEREIN
ALL UNINTENDED MEDIA IS HEREBY GRANTED SEPARATE BUT EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER UNWRITTEN LAWS, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS ITS ENFRANCHISEMENT MONETIZATION IS DEEMED DISENFRANCHISEMENT AND CARPETBAGGERS PEOPLE THE INVISIBLE OFFICES WHERE THEIR DIRTY WORK IS NEVER UNDONE, UNREGULATED BY LACK OF COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED AND LACKING ALL INTREPID MOTIVATION, DO SLOG THROUGH SECRET, SECRET,LY-FUNDED DIRTY MAGNILOQUENT OBFUSCATION ...
AND WHEN AND
WHERE STEPHEN FOSTER'S CAMPTOWN LADIES, ONCE 'SANG THEIR SONG' TO MAKE ME FORGET ME , MY SICK WIFE'S CARETAKER'S NEWS OF HER LAUDANUM SLUMBER, AND WHERE I DID, SO FREELY WITHOUT INFRINGEMENT, OR CENSOR OF AGENCY - WHO WASN'T THERE - LIKE THE BABY - AND WHO NOW OWES, I AM TOLD, STEPHEN FOSTER, LYRICALLY INCORRECT, MELODIOUSLY OVERRIDING ITS BEAUTIFUL DREAMER'S COLORED HAIR, THOUGH SOME WILL SAY, 'QUAINTLY SENTIMENTAL,' HIS ANTEBELLUM FANTASY OF HAPPY SLAVES LONGING FOR MASSA IN THOSE COTTONFIELDS OF HOME.
O! BUT CAN I SEE THEM ALL GET ROTTEN (AND YET ANOTHER STRANGE PRESENTIMENT NOT ABOUT STRANGELY UNREMARKED BY SPIRIT ACCORDING TO WIFE AND OTHER FRIENDS OF SOME FOOLISH PEN AUTHOR UNDER THE NAME OF J.W.B., WHOSE THESPIAN DREAMS IT SEEMS, UNLIKE MR. FOSTER'S BEAUTEOUS VERSION, SEEM TO HARBOR AN UNTENANTED DISAVOWAL OF THE EQUALITY WHICH I HAVE WON BUT WHICH I FEAR MANY OF HIS FURTIVE UNFOUNDED, AND MOST CONCERNING, UNFAMILIAR ILK WOULD AFFIRM WITH NO OBEISANCE TO THEIR TRUTH BUT ONLY TO THEIR MISSION, FOR WHOSE FLAG THEY PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE ONLY, AND WHOSE SEDITION AND CALUMNY, I KNOW AS I PEN THIS, I WILL PERISH: THEIR HANDS HOLD THE WEAPON, BUT MY ACTIONS PULL THE TRIGGER ... AND HAPPILY ...
AUTHOR OF OLD FOLKS AT HOME, OLD SUSANA AND OTHER DOO DAH FAVORITE DESERT ISLAND DISCS 'OL STOVEPIPE' LOVES ...
THEY OWE HIM FOR HIS EFFORTS IN EXCESS OF $299, AND JUST FROM THAT UNHOLY GENTLEMAN OF NORTH CAROLINA, THE MOST RACIST OF THE CAROLINA'S IT SHALL BE PROVEN SAYS SPIRIT. AND IT SHALL BE HIS HERITAGE WHICH PROVE IT, SAYS SPIRIT, AND GOOD FRIEND SHELBEY FOOTE -- PASS ME A DRAM.
RIBALD, CONFEDERATE NOTE-MOTIVATED, SENATOR THOM TILLER AND HIS BONUS-GRABBING STAFF, NARY A COLORED FACE TO BREAK STRIDE --CATCH AND HIDE-- PLAYED IN OFFICE ON THAT OTHER THOMAS'S EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE, AT 78 RPMS . . .
WIFE NEEDS SQUIRREL BROTH
& Row V Wade FOREVER Swamp ca. 1998 SAN FRANCISCO
Internet-savvy animation fans have known about The
Dancing Baby for years; he populates hundreds of Websites and has been
the subject of untold numbers of e-mail missives.
Who is this toddler, who boogies to your
favorite tunes wearing nothing but his diaper?
- He is a figment of Michael Girard's imagination.
- "The dancing baby," he said, "actually goes back to an initial cha-cha motion that I created as a demo file years ago."
- The baby was one of several sample animation files he created to show off his animation software product, Kinetix Character Studio.
The foot-loose infant's star rose soon after.Copies of the diapered dancer now animate computer screens across the Internet.
- CBS's "Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel" profiled the baby on its show last week.
- And Hollywood recently seized on the baby as a plot device on "Ally McBeal."
- "Ally McBeal's" co-executive producer, Jeffrey Kramer, said the show had been looking for ideas to explore Ally's biological clock.
- "We use fantasy elements in the show, and what better biological clock than to see this little baby who comes in as an apparition and haunts her," he said.
- Scene from "Ally McBeal" The Dancing Baby has appeared on the Fox program "Ally McBeal"
- Animation, of course, is not new.
- The breakthrough in his product is that Character Studio builds animations on a standard home computer, making it possible for amateur animators to play with sophisticated motions.
- Janelle Brown, culture writer for Wired News, calls the dancing baby a "meme," which Wired defines as "a contagious idea" -- like the kids of the "South Park" comedy series, and "Max Headroom" before them.
- "These kinds of funny animations and jokes and little projects have always proliferated on the Web, and they've always been very much a 'Web thing,'" Brown said.
- But the baby isn't just a Web thing anymore.
- The child has been let out of cyberspace, and into the mainstream.
Senator Thom Tillis Pushed Awful Patent Reform Idea Last Year; Now Looks To Top It With Awful Copyright Reform This Year
Last year, Senator Thom Tillis was pushing a completely ridiculous patent reform bill that would have enabled massive patent trolling, by expanding what would count as patent-eligible subject matter.
After his bill was released -- and basically everyone who wasn't a patent troll explained what a disaster it would be for American innovation, Tillis quietly let the matter drop. Given that experience, you might think that Tillis would think twice before stepping into the even more fraught arena of copyright reform. And yet, Tillis has been champing at the bit to change the DMCA to make Hollywood happier with it. Now, there are lots of complaints to be made about the DMCA.
Section 512 enables blatant censorship and puts tremendous pressure on platforms to take down non-infringing content.
It also favors larger platforms which can deal with a barrage of takedowns over smaller upstarts.
Section 1201 of the DMCA is utter garbage and makes it "infringing" to merely talk about ways to remove DRM -- even if the underlying reason for doing so is non-infringing.
There are obvious ways to fix both of those. But, instead, Tillis and his staff seem ultra focused on making Section 512 worse and importing awful ideas like the EU Copyright Directive, which forces platforms into being Hollywood's personal police, and bringing in dangerous, censorial ideas like "notice and staydown," which would require expensive and unreliable internet filters.
While he's made some nod towards perhaps making a few cosmetic changes to 1201 as a "trade" for making 512 that much worse, the overall impact of what's being discussed would be terrible.
1201 would remain in some form, and what few exceptions would be made would be minimal in impact. But bringing in things like "notice and staydown" for 512 would inevitably lead to much more censorship.
It's unclear why Tillis is rushing headlong into this debate, when it seems that neither he nor his staffers grasp the details of how copyright works. Given how silly and uninformed Tillis came out of last year's attempt to pass a patent bill, it's bizarre that his office hasn't bothered to be more careful on the copyright front before leaping into that arena.
–The Techdirt Team Filed Under: copyright, copyright reform, dmca, dmca 1201, dmca 512, eu copyright directive, notice and staydown, notice and takedown, patent reform, patents, thom tillis
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1. Senator Thom Tillis Pushed Awful Patent Reform Idea Last Year; Now Looks To Top It With Awful Copyright Reform This Year
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The Sunburst bodies redesigned next redesigned
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