Posts by avatastic 11 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Mar 2008
One thing I learned recently that it is not only the textual content that can be copyrighted (i.e. the original work) but also the formatting and presentation.
When someone takes something in the PD, packages it up in a PDF or goes as far as to bind it and slap a © on it all they are protected against is the work _in that format_ someone else can easily come along, take the same PD work and re-package it, change the font, etc. and as long as they do it from an original PD source and not a copyrighted re-package both are perfectly legal.
When will this government realise that the solution to anything (with the possible exception of a budget underspend) is not to throw computers and money at it?
If GCHQ/MI6 want to catch 'terrorists'* then they should go out and do some damn work and not wait for the Master Computer Programme to flag up suspects automatically.
Roll on GE Day ...
* terrorists here is in inverted commas because the only actual terrorists, i.e. someone who rules through fear and instills terror in the general poplus is infact the current government (and possibly the Daily Mail).
1) I don't want the government influencing my search results
2) They don't have the right to influence my search results, only HRH does.
3) Won't someone please bomb the HO and think of the children?*
*Note this is not an incitement to violence or protest or to cause terror, this is a satirical statement.
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