Friday blahs
1. My phone is still switched on but not even showing RED in the battery any more. So consider contacting me by phone/text to be out until further notice (i.e I don't know where my USB cabley thing is. I suppose I could go out and buy another charger though. But why am I so resentful of doing this? grr!)
2. BORED. Everyone else is in a meeting. Did I mention it's Friday...
3. Oh, I have no food at home, and don't want to go food shop and then have to cook and blah and woe. I will have to find myself somewhere to eat on the way to Poptimism (at which I wonder if I would hear anything by ADAM AND THE ANTS? I hope so!), maybe I could go by Taro and have a delicious Asahi Black, that would nice wouldn't it...
4. I want to know the reasoning behind this Pink Lady decision as well! I can't see how whatever Japan's rules on 'fair use', however widely/closely defined they may or may not be, could be a defence - the use within a for-profit magazine demonstrates a clear purpose for the use, fourteen photos were used etc (in England this wouldn't even matter because fair dealing is pretty strict). I need to know more than that article says, publicity rights for example. If they were objecting to the implication that their choreography would lead to weight loss then... well that's not what the article says!
"The pictures were used only to inspire readers to evoke their memories," the judge said.
"So it cannot be said that the duo's rights to exclusive control of their names and images were infringed upon beyond the tolerance level they have to accept as celebrities."
Okaaay. Woah, like, tell that to JD Salinger dude. Waseda's archive of IP precedents doesn't... at the moment... as far as I can tell... have any Japanese precedents (or UK ones either right now but whatever - it's still pretty neat). All I know about Japanese law I have learnt from Shigeaki Kato, one episode of Majo Saiban and Gyakuten Saiban. DEFINITIVE I SAY.
5. Awesome: http://thingsthatlooklikeotherthings.tumblr.com/
2. BORED. Everyone else is in a meeting. Did I mention it's Friday...
3. Oh, I have no food at home, and don't want to go food shop and then have to cook and blah and woe. I will have to find myself somewhere to eat on the way to Poptimism (at which I wonder if I would hear anything by ADAM AND THE ANTS? I hope so!), maybe I could go by Taro and have a delicious Asahi Black, that would nice wouldn't it...
4. I want to know the reasoning behind this Pink Lady decision as well! I can't see how whatever Japan's rules on 'fair use', however widely/closely defined they may or may not be, could be a defence - the use within a for-profit magazine demonstrates a clear purpose for the use, fourteen photos were used etc (in England this wouldn't even matter because fair dealing is pretty strict). I need to know more than that article says, publicity rights for example. If they were objecting to the implication that their choreography would lead to weight loss then... well that's not what the article says!
"The pictures were used only to inspire readers to evoke their memories," the judge said.
"So it cannot be said that the duo's rights to exclusive control of their names and images were infringed upon beyond the tolerance level they have to accept as celebrities."
Okaaay. Woah, like, tell that to JD Salinger dude. Waseda's archive of IP precedents doesn't... at the moment... as far as I can tell... have any Japanese precedents (or UK ones either right now but whatever - it's still pretty neat). All I know about Japanese law I have learnt from Shigeaki Kato, one episode of Majo Saiban and Gyakuten Saiban. DEFINITIVE I SAY.
5. Awesome: http://thingsthatlooklikeotherthings.tumblr.com/