FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for July 22, 2024

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    Robert4170  3 months ago

    Highlights some of the absurdities of copyright law.

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    Charles Barr Premium Member 3 months ago

    What’s a record industry, and what’s a CD?

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    Wren Fahel  3 months ago

    I had a boss who told me that I should have been a lawyer, after I convinced him that I was only taking 2 days off when in reality I was taking a week. My logic was flawless.

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    steveconkey2003  3 months ago

    On paper, this is brilliant.

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    dflak  3 months ago

    I think if your read the fine print in the Microsoft End User Agreement, it says that if you use Word to write ANY document, it becomes the intellectual property of Microsoft.

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    tom.amitai  3 months ago

    Does anyone know when this edition of this strip was produced? I’m wondering if the artist got the idea from Rubin & Riehl, if they got their idea from this strip, or the similarities are coincidental.

    To save you from searching, Rubin & Riehl are a music producer and a lawyer who started a project to use computers to generate every possible musical melody incorporating certain constraints of rhythm and range. Their goal was to point out that the number of such melodies is finite, and that similarities in songs are not necessarily due to plagiarism. I think there was also some talk about making it impossible to copyright new melodies by putting them all into the public domain. I don’t know what became of the project.

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    kevinclark  3 months ago

    Most people, evidently including Jason,don’t know that you can’t copyright song titles.

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member 3 months ago

    I’m sure there are some pretty good and decent lawyers out there but it appears that the bad ones usually get the press. They’re the ones that spawn the great lawyer jokes that we come to love….and laugh! ;-p

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member 3 months ago

    Titles can’t be copyrighted.

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    win.45mag  3 months ago

    Sounds like he’s gonna have a bunch of binary head bangers.

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    sperry532  3 months ago

    Young Jason may be a technical genius, but he should avoid practicing law. What he’s doing is akin to “copywriting” on individual letters. Maybe trademark them (that won’t fly, but hey, give it a try), but copywrite, nope.

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    Strawberry King  3 months ago

    Wal-Mart still sells CDs. Just not as much.

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    MacII  3 months ago

    Its the pits I’m afraid but the zero’s and one’s are never manifestly represented as such in the process of decoding the CD into analog sound, nonetheless there’s a 0/1 % chance that Jason may get a nice letter in the post from Philip Glass’s lawyers, re: similarity to the work Einstein on the Beach

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    M.K.Staffeld  3 months ago

    Further reasons to keep Jason out of marketing and law school.

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    Ed The Red Premium Member 3 months ago

    Yes Andy, keep the kid out of law school because he’s full of terrible ideas. This is akin to an author suing other authors because he has a trademarked work includes the letters of the alphabet.

    I get it – this is supposed to be a silly idea. But it’s so dumb that it’s just dumb.

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    yangeldf  3 months ago

    it seems that Jason grew up to develop the copyright algorithm for youtube

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    Bill The Nuke  3 months ago

    That would be like writing a song consisting solely of the note C and then expecting royalties from every song that uses that note. Not gonna happen. Unless you get the lawsuit to the US Supreme Court and pay off the majority of the justices.

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    eced52  3 months ago

    He was probably one of the lawyers that swindled thousands of A.T.$T. employees out of pension funds.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  3 months ago

    Maybe you should lock him in the basement.

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    Saddenedby Premium Member 3 months ago

    he later changes his name to Bill G.

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    AwelCruiz  3 months ago

    If those titles could be copyrighted, Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, and U2 would have words with Jason.

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