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Why the term of copyright should depend on the author's longevity is beyond me.
If the term were a flat 30 years from first publication, would authors be significantly less motivated to create?
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Why the term of copyright should depend on the author's longevity is beyond me.
If the term were a flat 30 years from first publication, would authors be significantly less motivated to create?
Mark my words: America will *not* see the scheduled "migration of material to the public domain" in 2019. Between now and then, copyright holders will successfully lobby Congress for yet another retrospective extension of copyright, thus depriving the American people of yet another slice of the benefit that is due to them under the agreement by which they granted the copyright in the first place.
Copyright holders have no intention of keeping their side of the bargain. Having been granted the right to milk the back-catalog for a limited time, they intend to keep milking it forever.
If the copyright holders are successful, they will probably just have proven that the political system is broken. For example, in Senate Report 104-315 ( Senate Report 104-315 ) , the following is given as a reason for copyright extension:
"In addition to strengthening existing incentives to create new and derivative works, the 20-year extension of copyright protection will provide the important collateral benefit of creating incentives to preserve existing works. Until now, copyrighted works have been fixed in perishable media, such as records, film, audiotape, paper, or canvas. Copies or reproductions of these works usually suffer significant degradation of quality. The digital revolution offers a solution to the difficulties of film, video, and audio preservation, and offers exciting possibilities for storage and dissemination of other types of works as well. However, to transfer such works into a digital format costs a great deal of money—money which must come either from public or private sources.
Many of the works we wish to preserve, including the motion pictures and musical works from the 1920's and 1930's that form such an extraordinary part of our Nation's cultural heritage, will soon fall into the public domain. Once in the public domain, the exclusive right to reproduce these works will no longer be protected. Because digital formatting enables the creation of perfect reproductions at little or no cost, there is a tremendous disincentive to investing the huge sums of money necessary to transfer these works to a digital format, absent some assurance of an adequate return on that investment. By extending the current copyright term for works that have not yet fallen into the public domain, including the term for works-made-for-hire (e.g., motion pictures), the bill will create such an assurance by providing copyright owners at least 20 years to recoup their investment. More important, the American public will benefit from having these cultural treasures available in an easily reproducible and indelible format."
It will be very hard to argue such a case now with places like http://archive.org posting massive amounts of public domain works on the web. This leaves only the windfall to current copyright owners as the reason for copyright extension.
Republican Representative Howard Coble also claimed that copyright extension was good for consumers: "When works are protected by copyright, they attract investors who can exploit the work for profit." (Congressional Record, Volume 144, 1998, Coble, North Carolina, H1458) in debate over the Copyright Term Extension Act. This will be a hard claim to justify nowadays. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#March_25th.2C_... )
"America has not seen one since the 1970s, nor will it until 2019."
This statement is incorrect. America will never again see anything enter the public domain without serious reform of government. SCOTUS has effectively already signed off on serial extensions as long as the term remains finite.
Given the prlofetation of e books- the result of thecsplendid efforts of volunteer workers, (Google books is a mess) together with the simple fact that the great majority of books will not be reprinted, and will thus be inaccessible to readers (libraries are junking lots) it would be reasonable to establish procedures to legally oblige the waiveing of copyright restrictions for selected categories.
The present system represents in most cases a 'dog-in-the -manger' attitude.
note that: the problem(s) with google books are due to the same copyright issues (& related legal entanglements), & NOT due to google's technical abilities to implement the project.
My comment bears no relevance to Goog's problems in navigating copyright legilsation. I have difficulty in navigating the google site. I do not have this with Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org (started in 1971)
I was very enthusiastic when GOOGLE began; how wonderful to have so many splendid books at ones fingertips.
The problem is that there are many books that are of interest, which are not out of copyright, which will never be reprinted and which are thus inaccessible (libraries are discarding books - you can find these at Strand Books.) In such cases the copyright legislation is irrelevant and thus I consider that owners of copyright should be requested to relinquish - or if they wish to recieve royalty payments, they must themselves be responsible for the preparation of the text in accordance with e book requirements.
Copyright law should be very much restricted both in time and category.
E books have changed the literary environment and our intellectual lifestyle, and our paloelithich legislators should be brought up-to- date!
It is hard to read this article without thinking about my primary gripe with reading The Economist using the app on iOS: The implementation prohibits one from selecting or copying text out of the articles, presumably to prevent copying. Being able to copy out a word would make it easy to look up the definition on Google or learn more about a topic. I'm often frustrated by this as I feel that the educational value I get from The Economist makes it well worth the annual subscription, but I am restrained from making the most of that.
This kind of prior restraint is a good example of what is wrong with copyright at the moment.
I observe that I have no such problem with the PC. I have an iPad - which is sometimes frustrating but it is a fine tool when traveling and visiting friends. On the iPad I can select text and copy, but it is a little clumsy.
With the PC I select text, open a new blank document, or e mail or whatever and simply drag the selected text over.
I suspect that your problem has nothing to do with the Economist. It is either the limitations of your equipment, or you should explore and experiment! (You should do this anyway, it is a lot of fun.)
I'm specifically referring to using the Newsstand-enabled app for The Economist. When browsing using Safari on the iPad (or any browser on the desktop), the ability to copy text is unhindered. It is when using the Newsstand-enabled app on the iPad that one cannot use the standard gesture of touching a word and being offered the option to copy it or have it defined. Other Newsstand-enabled apps support this.
My sincere aploogies. Never thought that the Economist would be so - whatever. If the responsible persons read this they should consider themselves severely admonished!
Strong protection of IP is one thing, long protection is another. Overreach encourages theft. Dead people have no interests or rights.
Strong copyright and IP protection rules are beneficial when the context is a society (and technology state) where information is scarce. They become less beneficial - and in fact dysfunctional - in an information dense environment where much of the creativity consists of building new mashups from older materials. Canal and riverboat interests tried mightily to kill the railroad in the U.S.; Disney and others have had far more success in stomping on new media - which creates innovation and cultural growth from new mixtures of old information. Eventually, societies that give in to the old forms of technology lose, if for no other reason than more creative cultures outcompete them. But that doesn't stop the game.
So far as I know, the most recent copyright extension was the EU's extension of the recording copyright from 50 years to 70 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_70_year_recording_copyright... This was only about recordings, so song writers would be unaffected. It would make for example a 50 year old recording of Bach public domain, but not say a 50 year old recording of a Rolling Stones song, since the copyright for the song would still exist. Examining what it took to pass this legislation is useful. First, it was proposed in the UK to extend the recording copyright to 95 years. This was defeated, so they proposed it in 2008 in the European Union. This failed, so they tried again in 2009 with 70 term instead, which passed the parliament, but took another two years before they managed to pass European Council. So despite the fact that this was a relatively minor change, there was enough resistance to cause it to fail in the UK, and delay it for three years in the EU and cause it to be reduced from a 95 years to 70 years. I expect that there will be much more resistance to a general copyright extension.
As a side note, there currently is a petition at the Whitehouse proposing a 10 year copyright: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/shorten-excessive-copyright-te... I am curious to see if it will get the necessary 25,000 signatures.
I'm the guy who started the petition you mentioned. I certainly hope we get to that many signatures. Right now there are 1,701 out of the 25,000 needed to get an official response.
I encourage any U.S. citizens reading this to read the petition and consider signing it. Here's the link again: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/shorten-excessive-copyright-te...
I signed it, even tho' I think 10 years is too short. However, I think 10 years is much more reasonable than the current authors life plus 70 years with no registration requirement.
Since this is shorter than the Berne minimum requirements (See the Berne Convention at: http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html ), getting to 10 years would be a challenge. However without changing Berne things like orphan works are much more of a challenge. Berne convention restricts requiring registration requirements with Article 5(2): "The enjoyment and the exercise of these rights shall not be subject to any formality"
The Berne convention does however state in Article 9 (2) that: "It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to permit the reproduction of such works in certain special cases, provided that such reproduction does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author." which maybe could be stretched to help out with orphan works which are not being normally exploited.
However the Berne convention is better than current US law in some cases. For example, under the Berne convention, copyrights for movies only last 50 years Article 7 (2), but under US law is 95 years. Copyrights for a new book last 70 years after the author's death under US law, but only 50 years after the author's death under the Berne convention Article 7 (1). For photographs, the term is 25 years under Berne, Article 7 (4), and 70 years after the photographer's death in US law.
For some cases it the current term under US law is longer than the Berne convention, for example, a work written in 1923 will expire in 2018 (Publication + 95 years), but if the author died in 1975, it would still be under copyright until 2025 (author death + 50 years).
Many of the problems with copyright can't really be fixed until the Berne convention is changed, and in the US and the EU copyright terms are even longer than the Berne convention requires.
That said, I think the petition is very worthwhile, and I hope it get enough signatures.
yakiv, unfortunately, it looks like the petition failed with 2,870 of the needed 25,000 signatures. I think I would like to try a different petition which just requests 1.) Reduce copyright terms to the minimum of current term or Berne convention requirement. 2.) Eliminate criminal penalties and civil fines for unregistered works that are not currently available (orphan works problem). 3.) study the issue to determine economically optimal terms for copyright.
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A point to made about copyright beyond issues of fairness and profiteering: overly long copyright serves to bankrupt our culture. Consider a public domain character like Snow White that has appeared in countless incarnations over the decades, several times in the last year alone. That character and others like her are part of our common cultural vocabulary. If we create a copyright system that totally prevents new characters from entering that vocabulary, we are stifling future creation.
Copyright serves a purpose and it's hard to draw a line at where that purpose has been fulfilled, but clearly renewal ad infinitum is not the answer.
Just for the matter of curiosity, what would be the impact on Disney's credit rating if copyrights to their early characters (Mickey, Donald, etc.) expire?
That will never happen, I can state categorically. Reversing copyright rules at this point for material that has already had extensions would be considered a "taking," almost assuredly. More likely, any changes would be procedural for work created from 1978 on, perhaps requiring different registration requirements, or for work created from a point following the change in law.
No copyright law since and including those changes made in 1978 have restricted any rights accrued by copyright holders.
Can you explain further? Why would a retroactive shortening be a taking but not a retroactive extension? Both are transfers, it is just a matter of the direction. As the economist's amicus brief mentions, "the future term could be adjusted downward as well as upward" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/supct/amici/economi...
The interests that have lobbied to get this far will use the argument that a retroactive reversal of term takes money away by taking property rights away. Whether valid or not, that's the argument that gets used.
Considering how far it has been stretched otherwise, perhaps eminent domain could be applied....
A big issue could be addressed if we had something like the 28 years renewable in 10 year increments, but the renewal application needs to include a copy of the work, so that the public domain will have access to orphan works or works that have no current commercial value. One of the greatest losses is works that are no longer extant. They weren't immediately valued, and no-one was permitted to copy them, so all copies died or were tossed. Just avoiding that loss would be a large step in the right direction. Add a renewal fee to cover the management costs and the system will pay for itself. Disney will be able to keep steamboat willie forever, but will have to itemize any older works they want to keep.
i would support your suggest up to but NOT including the "forever" part; "copyright" is a "privilege" (aka "entitlement"), NOT "property" law & it NEEDS to expire at some point.
I don't disagree with you on principle, but the indefinite extension would make it politically possible to pass - Disney etc. would only swallow the renewal fees if they would be able to get their "forever" extension. MAYBE you could get something like 108 year max (28 + 8 10-yr renewals) but it would be an uphill climb.
On this, I note this magazine puts its archive online. Register and search.
I see no benefit in copyright on works where the author has died. It no longer benefits the author because he is dead.
US copyright is not designed for the benefit of the individual author, but for big corporations.
The justification for extension beyond death is to given the grieving orphans of the writer who died of TB working in a frozen garret the profits of their parents endeavours. This, combined with the extension of this to all descendants to avoid a few orphans being left out, justifies the present situation. Which is, of course, farcical. The just roll back would be to restore ALL works to the terms applicable when they were published - which was the incentive that caused their generation in the first place. Anything else is sheer profiteering.
Indeed --- under U.S. Law, the author of the work is considered to =BE= the Big Corporation.
Look at the fine print at the end of any TV show or motion picture: "For the purposes of interpreting the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the author of this film shall be considered to be the Sony Motion Picture Corporation." Or Disney. Or Viacom. Or whichever mega-corporation the reps where from who bought the rights to the screenplay from the _actual_ author of the screenplay that the Berne Convention was originally written in a vain and quixotic attempt to protect... :-(
I'm generally in favour of shorter copyright terms, but I can see one which instantly expired on the death of the author being problematic. Imagine an old or sick author being unable to sell a very good work because prospective buyers all (reasonably) think it'll likely become public-domain, hence commercially worthless, in the near future.
Copyrights in most of the world had a duration from creation, during which a creator could exploit the rights. Is 28 years, or even 56, too short? Compared to someone who creates a work at 21, lives to 85, and has his heirs or estate (or anyone to whom he sold his rights) protected it for 95 years thereafter? Surely 159 years of monopoly is over-sufficient?
People who are about to die *really* should motivate themselves by something other than meaningless financial profit.
I believe in that case, the copyright in the US and Europe would be 70 years after the author's death, or (85-21)+70 = 134 years, not 159. 134 years is still overly long. It is also interesting to consider what will happen if medical technology succeeds in creating really long lifespans.
G.F. - I'm not arguing against shorter copyrights, but against choosing "creator's lifetime" as the duration, since that's inherently variable and could result in copyrights expiring either decades or weeks after the work's creation. Better to have a fixed term defined in time (regardless of whether it expires before or after its creator does) than have the work's commercial value weirdly tied to how healthy its creator is.
Yes, sorry, I added 25 years there. For corporate authorship (work for hire and employee work), it's 95 years after publication. However, one of the methods companies get around this is by keeping the copyright in the author's name, but then requiring the author to assign nearly all the rights to the company. Thus, a publishing company could obtain 134 years of protection for a work in the above example that, if the work were honestly created, would only have 95 years' protection.
It doesn't seem particularly perverse or meaningless to be motivated by the prospect of dying in comfort rather than poverty, or the opportunity to leave something to one's family.
Jebedee: That may be so, but the explicit purpose of copyright in America, at least, is not for the gain of an individual, but to motivate innovation and creativity. Any gain is limited and a monopoly protecting use by others without permission was put in place to provide a short-term benefit.
Regardless, though, numerous studies (many of which may be found through the Duke centre's website) show that the vast majority of financial gain obtains in the first few years after the publication or release of a work, and less so thereafter. There are notable exceptions in which long after a work is created it is rediscovered and then published, adapted, and so forth. But the vast majority of those cases involve work in which copyright has lapsed and it is in the public domain.
A term of 56 years from publication (and perhaps longer for unpublished and unreleased works, as the current law allows in many cases) would seem sufficient to benefit a creator and heirs.
The extensions of copyright today largely benefit corporations who long ago purchased the rights from a creator or estate.
Take the Tolkien estate. J.R.R. Tolkien sold film rights for £100,000 decades before the Peter Jackson trilogy which grossed billions. It is unclear how that benefited Dr Tolkien or his heirs (or the foundations they've established). In the actual event, the rights sale wasn't sufficiently broad, and the Tolkien estate clawed out an enormous sum from the film's producers.
G.F. - I don't think I disagree with any of that, but it's not really opposed to what I said. To reiterate, in saying "Lifetime is a bad length" I'm not saying "Copyrights need to be much longer than that" (shorter is fine), just that, whether it's 1 decade or 10, they should just be a time length, not a function of when someone happened to drop dead.
if we're going to have a copyright-restriction system at all, then this would be an excellent arguement for returning to a system with SET time-limits, instead of one which results in us cheering on the death of as many creative people as possible, as soon as possible...
Copyright law is absurd, especially when compared with Patent Law. How can one possibly justify a greater monopoly protection to works of art, music and literature than to a life-saving drug or major inventive step in achieving fuel efficiency for motor vehicles which only get 20 years? All intellectual property is a gift of the state - the citizens and taxpayers through their legislative representatives. Why should that right be given except to further the public interest in creative people actually doing the creative work and then making it available to the public? And what creative people need more than say life or 25 years whichever is the greater as a reason to create and publish?
Now several countries have extended the absurdity to resales of artist's work on which a royalty is to be charged - in Australia, which has a peculiarly stupid Arts minister the right could extend for 150 years or even more. I suppose thats OK if you think that Agatha Christie's great-grandchildren should go on receiving income from The Mousetrap.....
It is however relatively easy to check and fairly unambiguous. First publication can be messy. For example what amount of revision constitutes a new work? What constitutes publication, does the writer printing up a few copies for some friends count? &c. Death on the other hand is pretty clear-cut.
Copyright in America is copywrong. If a rights-holder has made no bona-fide and successful effort to profit from owning the right, within, say, 5 or 10 years, the work ought to enter the public domain.
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the sad thing is most people don't even care aboiut/haven't watched "steamboat willie" anymore.
the ironic thing is that "steamboat willie" was a parody short-film-cartoon, based on a buster keaton feature film, based on a book; & disney DID NOT pay any of the "preceeding authors" royalties, or secure the rights to make it. they/he did so under the "fair use" provisions of the usa's copyright law (parody is "protected" free speech).
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But now you're stretching. Secureboot will not do that for you. It looks for a signature and if it finds it, it boots. It doesnt look for hashes or modifications or viruses or anything else.. All that needs done is to make sure the signature exists. It may not have been done yet, But I'm absolutely positive it will. Everything MS does gets hacked.. You think this will be any different?
I'll bet that in 2 years from now there will be more boot viruses than ever before -simply- because secureboot provided the temptation.
Last edited by duby229; 12-28-2012 at 08:16 PM.
You're damn right Linux is not their problem.
That's why they are under no obligation to make sure Secure Boot plays nice with Linux. They're just looking out for Windows. Which is PRECISELY what they are doing with Secure Boot.
Just like you don't care about Microsoft and Windows, Microsoft does not need to care about Linux users having issues with Secure Boot. Except that they ARE by offering signing services. Garett managed to get his shim signed by Microsoft, and that shim is now freely distributed to everybody and it forms the basis for the bootloaders used by Ubuntu, Fedora and SuSe (no word on OpenSUSE yet).
But then again, most idiots in the Linux world can't even see beyond the year 2002. Thank god I jumped from Fedora 17 to Windows 8 as soon as it came out. Pure hardware bliss without the stinking political 'free shit' baggage.
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And THAT is exactly the problem. How many linux distro's are -not- listed. How many exactly? All I see are the ones that could pay them off.
You can use whatever OS you prefer to use. What ever floats your boat. Anything that tickles your tonsil. As long as I'm allowed the same freedom please.
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And as I said, I'll bet it gets hacked. In 2 years from now there will be more boot loader viruses than ever before -because- of secureboot. Simply because it provided a target. Fresh meat and all that jazz. The overubundance of opportunity will prevail. I'm sure of it.
Hell If I ever get to the spot that I can't get my favorite OS to boot because of secureboot, I'm sure I'll be involved with the crowd that is hacking it.
EDIT: I can't even begin to imagine all of the un-hackable protection schemes that have been hacked. My favorite has got to be AACS though. It took some time, but guess what happened...... Now I can --FINALLY-- play my bluray movies on my media center. It's just one example of many where the dumb ass shit that corporate america does gets pushed into there dumb ass faces. I'm sure MS is going to be eating their own shit when this gets shoved so far up their ass that they can taste it.
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Cryptographic signatures have been important enough to be a target for a long time, and from time to time flaws are founnd in them. They are not, however, common things to have broken and there is no reason to believe that secure boot will make cryptography be broken sooner.
It's a basic law of physics. If there are 10 computers with secureboot running on it, then the opportunities for finding flaws are limited. If there are 85,000,000 computers running it, then the abundance of opportunity will prevail. At least some of those computers will exhibit qwerks that will be learned from and adapted.
Your ignorance is showing.
SecureBoot is not a Microsoft creation. Never has, never will. It's part of the UEFI standard that was formally agreed upon and pushed out to all mainboards in the last 2 -3 years. Microsoft is only the first company to require Secure Boot for its operating system.
If you have a problem with that, take it up to the UEFI board, not Microsoft. As far as Microsoft is concerned, they have already fulfilled their obligations by making sure that all x86 machines will have an option to allow the enrolling of custom keys into the Secure Boot signature list (by providing the signing service nobody wants to offer) and stipulating that x86 machines must provide the ability to turn off Secure Boot.
The options are already there. If Linux users love to proclaim that they will pay for Free software, it's time for them to put their money where their mouth is and donate to their distro of choice so that the maintainers can raise the one-time $99 fee (which goes to VeriSign, NOT Microsoft) to get their bootloader signed and ensure that the distro will play nice with Secure Boot.
Lastly, Garett is not stopping any distribution from using his shim. So in all respects the solution is already out there and ready to be used, just like how Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora and SUSE have already started using Shim. Unfortunately, the desire for 'my own solution because I don't want to use someone else's work which is already freely available because my ego is too big', an over-inflated sense of entitlement, along with the fanboy hate for Microsoft blinds everyone to the immediate solution already made available.
One last thing: Linux is not about market share? Not in this corporate world. If you want to be taken seriously by OEMs and hardware vendors or even have the clout to overturn asinine decisions like Secure Boot, market share is a must-have. Get that desktop market share from 1.4% up to at least 10% and I can assure you Microsoft will have to think thrice when stipulating hardware conditions for OEMs for subsequent versions of Windows in the future.
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Gael Monfils couldn't have started his season any better, hair or tennis-wise.
The fuzzy Frenchie hit 7 aces to none in his stunning 6-4, 6-4 defeat of top baller Rafael Nadal in Doha today. It was his first career win over the Spaniard in four attempts; he'll next face Andy Roddick for a spot in the final.
La Monf must've been "treeing" today because he also won 83% of his first serves and hit zero doubles.
Gawdy much?
UPDATE: According to his site, Rafa will now be traveling directly to Melbourne where Uncle Toni will be meeting up with him next week. I'm thinking he'll be under some serious practice sessions when Uncle Toni arrives especially after this result. Break out the whips - ouch!
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OK, go Rafa for AO title! - johanneJanuary 8, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Wish I could be happy for Fuzzy Monf but I'm just sad for Rafa! Agh!!
ReplyDelete - johanneJanuary 8, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Oh no! He looks so sad yet so cute still in that pic :)
Babz: *also sobs at lack of bicep visual*
Rich: I think Rafa should just start out in his tidy-whiteys.
I bet Uncle Toni is pissed. This strip-PS session def needs to happen!! - Uvijek ArgenJanuary 8, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Hahaha..."Le Monf"..sounds like Im in the bakery..."can i have one croissant and two Le Monf please?"
ReplyDelete Thanks so much for booking me, Rich!
*prepares herself for strip PSX (PSEX?) session by wearing only a tiny bikini and practising "Pro Evolution Soccer" big time*
Rafa, you suck! No, that was not a statement, but a command.
*tries to get mind out of gutter*
*doesn't work with cute Rafa pic at hand*
BTW so cool "Fuzzy Monf" seems to carry on as a nickname, hehe.- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2009 at 12:07 PM
what the hell is going on with rafa these days, not a very good start to the year,BUT this is how I see it...they are all flukes, along with fed losing, but as soon as the 5 SETTERS come along in the grandslams, the true champs come out....sure regualr tounaments matter, but we all love the grandslams way more, at least I do...
ReplyDelete - johanneJanuary 8, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Count me in for the PTR sesh. We can all go out for Rafa lattes afterwards ;)
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 8, 2009 at 1:59 PM
I really like Monfils but I think it's Rafa's new year change of clothing and shoes LOL Why change things when it's working?
ReplyDelete anon: I love his new stuff so I'm can't blame the clothing just yet - but I'll join you if he has some bad losses. He may need time to recover still from his insanely great year last year.
*fingers crossed*
natch: as if you'd leave any Rafa leftovers
*grabs empty cup from natch's clutches*"what the hell is going on with rafa these days, not a very good start to the year,BUT this is how I see it...they are all flukes, along with fed losing, but as soon as the 5 SETTERS come along in the grandslams, the true champs come out....sure regualr tounaments matter, but we all love the grandslams way more, at least I do..."
I like that kind of thought. I really do.
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Sue Jin Kang
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Sue Jin Kang was born in Seoul, South Korea. After initial ballet lessons in her native country, she studied with Marika Besobrasova at the Académie de Danse classique Princess Grace in Monte Carlo. In 1985 she won the Prix de Lausanne.
In September 1986, Sue Jin Kang was taken into the Stuttgart Ballet's Corps de ballet. 1994 Márcia Haydée promoted her to Soloist; three years later Reid Anderson promoted her to Principal Dancer. Her repertoire includes a wise range of leading roles full-length ballets, especially by John Cranko, as well as solo roles in other choreographies. Several renowned choreographers have created roles for Sue Jin Kang in their ballets.
Sue Jin Kang has toured with the Stuttgart Ballet all around the world. She successfully performed at the National Ballet of Korea, at the Universal Ballet in Seoul, Korea, as well as at the Art Festival in Istanbul and in Hanover where she danced Lise in
La fille mal gardée
(Heinz Spoerli). She has also danced at the Bavarian State Ballet Munich, the Dresden Ballet, the Ballet of the Hessian State Theatre Wiesbaden, the Ballet of the Royal Czech National Theatre, the Leipzig Ballet, the Ballet du Capitole, Toulouse and the Vienna State Opera. In May 2007 she was invited by John Neumeier to dance the role of Marguerite Gautier in his ballet
The Lady of the Camellias
with the Hamburg Ballet and Marijn Rademaker in the role of Armand Duval.
Sue Jin Kang has received several honours and prices such as the Prix Benois de la Danse for her role as Marguerite in
The Lady of the Camellias
(John Neumeier) in 1999. In 2007 she was awarded the national title of "Kammertänzerin". In the same year she received the John Cranko-Award from the John Cranko Association. In addition to that, she received diverse honours in her native country.
Stuttgart Ballet's Principal Dancer Sue Jin Kang was appointed to Artistic Director of the Korean National Ballet in January 2014. But until summer 2016 she will also stay a dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet.
Leading Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Jean Christophe Blavier): Titania
Afternoon of a Faun (Jerome Robbins)
Bartók Piano Concerto No. 1 (Uwe Scholz)
Carmen (John Cranko, new production: Reid Anderson and Georgette Tsinguirides): Carmen
Chaconne (George Balanchine)
Cinderella (Jean Christophe Blavier): Cinderella
Corps (Hans van Manen)
Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins): Role in Pink, Role in Green
Edward II (David Bintley): Queen Isabella
Forgotten Land (Jiří Kylián)
Fratres (John Neumeier): female leading role
Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina): Giselle
Giselle (Sir Peter Wright): Giselle
Große Fuge (Hans van Manen)
Herbst (John Cranko): Pas de deux
Hommage à Bolshoi (John Cranko)
In and Out (Hans van Manen)
Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko): M.
La Chambre (Renato Zanella)
Las Hermanas (Sir Kenneth MacMillan): Angustias
Legend (John Cranko): Pas de deux
Les Sylphides (Michail Fokine): Prélude
Love Songs (William Forsythe)
Mata Hari (Renato Zanella): Mata Hari
No More Play (Jiří Kylián)
Nôtre Dame de Paris (Taneo Ishida): Esmeralda
Now and Then (John Neumeier)
Nuages (Jiří Kylián)
Onegin (John Cranko): Tatjana
Othello (John Neumeier): Emilia
Poème de l'Extase (John Cranko): Diva
Rassemblement (Nacho Duato)
Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan): "leading role"
Return to a stange Land (Jiří Kylián)
Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Juliet
Serenade (George Balanchine)
Sinfonie in D (Jiří Kylián)
Stravinsky Violin Concerto (George Balanchine)
Symphony in C (George Balanchine): Third movement
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (George Balanchine)
The Concert (Jerome Robbins)
The four Temperaments (George Balanchine): Sanguinic
The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko): Lady
The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier): Marguerite Gautier
The Magic Flute (Maurice Béjart): Pamina
The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Aurora
The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan)
The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Katharina
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (William Forsythe)
Vers un Pays Sage (Jean Christophe Maillot)
Voluntaries (Glen Tetley)
Specially created Roles
Avatar (Matjash Mrozewski)
Black Angel (Renato Zanella)
Delta Inserts (Kevin O'Day)
dreamdeepdown (Kevin O'Day)
Igor Poems (Kevin O'Day)
Kazimir's Colours (Mauro Bigonzetti)
Krabat (Demis Volpi): Herr Gevatter
Les Noces (Stephan Thoss)
Madama Butterfly (Enrique Gasa Valga)
Nautilus (Wayne McGregor)
Orfeas (Roberto de Oliveira)
Orma (Mauro Bigonzetti)
Quattro Danze per Nino (Mauro Bigonzetti)
Songs (Christian Spuck)
Stepping Stones (Jiří Kylián)
Specially created Roles at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers
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Dumsky? (Mark McClain)
Fünf Etüden (Frédéric Gafner)
Lange noch bei den Rosen (Bertrand Perreau)
Mujeres sin Hombres (Mark McClain)
Restaurant und Bar "Dumky" (Mark McClain)
Something Within Us (Mark McClain)
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Good, get in the hands of the community for testing is best for the project.
Phoronix: Unity 8, Mir To Be Experimental Choice In Ubuntu 13.10
For those Linux enthusiasts wishing to toy with the Mir Display Server and Canonical's next-generation Unity 8 interface, they will be made optionally available for desktop users with the Ubuntu 13.10 release due out in October...
Good, get in the hands of the community for testing is best for the project.
At this rate they may be really able to ship on 2014 as they said. Maybe some bugs here and there but thats part of software life-cycle
Better ship something than never. The only drawback are going to be video drivers, unless you are running with intel video chips you are out of luck.
Even if it's buggy, it seems like we'll have a lot fewer design bugs than the rest of the stack. Or maybe we're just creating more- we'll see.
What I'm really interested to see is how traditional apps integrate with the new Unity, and whether the GTK theme will be reworked. I'm guessing the indicators will be the same, but we'll add a global menubar when docked.
As annoying as it is that everything is becoming so fragmented from a design perspective, it's still pretty amazing how many awesome things are coming from the Linux ecosystem. It makes Windows 8 seem rather boring.
Can they say if Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu will exist at 14.04 and how it will be handled? X.org or will they make those workoning on Mir on their own?
I will take my hat off if Canonical could pull a working Desktop Ubuntu using Mir in 14.04.
I think there's some FUD about the impending doom of the various *buntus. Writing distro-specific patches to enable KDE / Xfce / LXDE to run on top of Mir is beyond the resources available to the *buntus, but there are several potential solutions besides that route that should ensure the *buntus continue to survive.
First, as you yourself point out, the traditional X server should still be available. That's a safe, reliable fallback in case no other alternatives materialize. Next, since everyone is so sure Wayland is going to be ready for desktop computer usage before Mir is, what's to keep Ubuntu from shipping Wayland in its repositories, and therefore making it readily available to the *buntus to build upon? And even if Ubuntu doesn't ship Wayland in the repos, what is there to prohibit the *buntus from packaging it themselves? And finally, there's also the possibility of a Wayland-Mir compatibility layer.
For a more fun exercise, try to imagine what it will look like if Ubuntu actually ships a desktop-ready Wayland before they ship a desktop-ready Mir. It can happen, completely unintentionally. Ubuntu gets over 90% of its packages from Debian unstable. Since Wayland is ahead of Mir in development already, and since Mir is being targeted towards mobile first, there's a good chance there's going to be a bit of a gap between Wayland's and Mir's general releases for traditional desktop systems. If enough of this gap occurs outside the Debian 8 (Jessie) freeze, there's a good chance an out-of-the-box functional Wayland will get packaged in Debian. What will Ubuntu do when it's time to re-sync with Debian unstable?
Ain't that the truth. Hell, that's something I regarded as one of the disadvantages of the proprietary NVIDIA/ATI drivers: you are just a passive end user. With open source, I've watched Radeon framerates in Scorched3d quadruple in a year, part of it from upstream, part from configuring it right. Try THAT with a proprietary driver.
Windows 8, like GNOME and Ubuntu, has gotten into trouble with the desktop/tablet mismatch. Unlike us, it's "take it or leave it." Here, fragmentation is a nuisance but hardly new. The other side of fragmentation is variety and a smorgasboard of options. If you are working on something and like QT's tools, use them, you won't lock out GNOME users. The reverse is also true. We've lived with the GNOME/KDE divide and you can run anything from either side of the house on the other. That's the one thing we do need to keep, so compatability layers are going to be important. A possible ugliness
will be that very graphically demanding applications might need to run in their native environment for maximum performance.
Other than that issue, we are getting a choice of three display servers, at least five "modern" DE's plus dozens of lightweight ones. It should be possible for a distro-or a hacker-to pretty much set up any desired desktop for any class of device. UbuntuStudio (or whatever it evolves into) running
on a big multicore won't and should not look like Ubuntu Touch running on a smartphone, but the packages will exist to build either, so long as library incompatabilies, etc are carefully avoided.
I for one am looking forward to Cinnamon,(based on gnome-shell) getting ported to Wayland. Unity on Mir and Gnome-shell and Cinnamon on Wayland might take the "heavy" and the "slow" out of all these DE's once and for all. That will get Linux as a whole past our "Vista Moment."


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God's ability to keep His people from falling away is a source of profound comfort to believers. However, we must not think we can be passive with respect to our salvation. Though our efforts do not merit God's favor, His ...Read More
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The apostle Paul tells us that there are many varieties of gifts but one Spirit (1 Cor. 12:4). While the Holy Spirit dwells in all Christians, His various gifts show that He does not manifest Himself the same way in ...Read More
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Jewish History, 1948 to 1980
World War II redrew the map of world Jewry. Seventy-two percent of European Jewry perished during of the Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and attempted annihilation of Jews (and some other "undesirable" groups) by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. During this period, six million Jews (and millions of others) were murdered. The world's largest pre-war Jewish communities, Poland and the U.S.S.R, were decimated; those Eastern European Jews who survived the war faced anti-semitism in the postwar period. Stalin, who controlled not only the U.S.S.R, but also the communist satellite states of Eastern Europe, closed Jewish cultural institutions and imprisoned hundreds of Jews.
Stalin's death in 1953 brought some relief to Eastern European Jews, but Middle Eastern politics presented a new stumbling block to Jewish life. The Soviet government, fearing the groundswell of Jewish self-identification occasioned by the establishment of the state of Israel, branded Zionism illegal and closed all secular Jewish institutions. In 1971, the Soviets began to permit Jewish emigration but maintained tight reigns over who was allowed to leave. Those Jews who were refused emigration permits ("refuseniks") were deemed untrustworthy and often lost their jobs. In total, more than 250,000 Soviet Jews emigrated during the 1970s. A majority of Soviet émigrés settled in Israel; others moved to the United States, Canada, and Australia.
A new regional pattern emerged for the Jews of Western Europe after World War II. Whereas German Jewry had been the Jewish cultural touchstone of pre-war Europe, the postwar period saw the Jewish communities of Britain and France become the largest and most important in the region. While British Jewry ultimately declined in numbers as a result of assimilation and intermarriage (issues faced by all western Jewish communities in the postwar period), the Jewish community in France grew as a result of emigration of Jews from Northern Africa.
Immediately after the war, approximately 250,000 Jewish displaced persons left Europe for the United States or Israel. These two nations became the main stages for postwar Jewish life.
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