Posts by Kaemaril#

BOFH: You say goodbye and I say halon

Re: Great murder choice.

So, much the same as the House of Lords then?

Only with less snoring.

Looking for the perfect Valentine's gift? How about a week of retro gaming BBC Microlympics?

No Mr. EE? Count me out!

Petty PETA rapped by judges over monkey selfie copyright stunt

Re: "Why's that then?"

Re: "Why's that then?"

'Possession is nine tenths of the law' doesn't really apply to copyright. Just because the monkey cannot make a copyright claim, it doesn't follow that the copyright 'falls back' to Slater. There's no 'Well, darnit, SOMEBODY has to own the copyright ...'

Or at least, I assume that's what the Wikipedia Foundation would claim, and it's a defensible - but very tricky to prove - position :)

If Slater does go on to prove he did everything creatively necessary, and all the monkey did was press the button, then frankly the photo isn't really worth all that much. The sole 'selling point' of the photo was really that 'the monkey took it' - if Slater goes on to prove that wasn't the case he's devalued it quite a lot.

"Essentially, that means the picture belongs to Slater, and not the macaque"

Why's that then? I didn't see any assignment of copyright to Slater, just an order saying the animal couldn't sue to claim that it held the copyright.

Snowden bag-carrier Miranda's detention was lawful – UK appeal court

Re: Freedom of speech dies

Christopher Hitchens once shouted "Fire!" in a theatre. It did not cause a stampede. He was not arrested for it. Nobody was harmed in any way.

The actual quote was 'The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic', it never claimed that simply shouting 'Fire' in a theatre was illegal or in any way wrong.

Not that it matters much as, as you point out, that's US law and not UK.

LastPass got hacked: Change your master password NOW

Hmm. Only just saw the article on the register about this at 03:30 on Tuesday morning. Double checked my inbox and spam filters, and nope - nothing from LastPass about this, darnit. If they're still sending out reminder e-mails they're certainly taking their time!

So I've just gone in and changed my Master Password myself, just in case. Hope that doesn't somehow come back to bite me.