I thought that's what the front page was. It keeps wasting space with things I'm not interested in, or actively dislike.
New Video from The Primagen!
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NotAIHonestly Gets Rare Interview with The Primagen!
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FrierenFan04 Reacts to !AIH's Interview with Primagen!
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Wil Wheaton (CleverNickName of Slashdot) did a blog post years ago what's it like to be a voice actor in practice, see here (context is the strike a decade ago): https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwilwheaton.net%2F2015%2F09...
Now go after Googlenet and CloudFarce for obstructing access to the internet underneath their layers and spyware.
And she's still insisting that the recovery should be on the state's dime.
I'm so glad Texas is getting what they voted for.
I noticed less bug splatter years ago already but haven't owned a car for over at least six years now.
Things I noticed was less bees and wasps over the years along with butterflies. This year has also been quiet for regular flies, which were abundant over a year ago.
There is a difference between evidence and proof.
The difference being that evidence is something we can find, while proof doesn't exist outside of abstract realms like mathematics, so there's no point in trying to find it.
If you own a bar and you own a CD, you are allowed to play your CD in your bar. The article is pure idiocy. Bars don't need to pay licensing fees.
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following
[...]
(4) in the case of [...] musical [...] works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
(emphasis mine).
17USC101 defines public performance:
To perform or display a work “publicly” means— (1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered
it also defines perform as:
To “perform” a work means to [...] play, [...] it, either directly or by means of any device
So, playing your CD in a place that is "open to the public" is performing it publicly, and the copyright owner has the exclusive right to do that. This means that if you want to do it you need a license from the copyright owner.
Note also that a recording of music typically has three distinct copyrights on it. (1) The songwriter's copyright on the tune, arrangement, etc., basically everything you'd find in the sheet music other than the lyrics, (2) the songwriter's copyright on the lyrics and (3) the recording artist's copyright on the recorded performance. It's not uncommon for there to be a lot more than two songwriter copyrights, and in the case of recordings that contain significant sampling, there can be more copyrights in the recording, too.
To play the CD in your bar, you need licenses from all of the copyright holders. As others have mentioned, the record labels take this seriously and there's a high probability that infringing their copyrights this way will result in your being sued for millions of dollars, because the law authorizes statutory damages of up to $150,000 per offense.
I didn't have much trouble with this month but then I live in a cooler part of The Netherlands. I care more about night time temperatures though. As long as they are low I can open up all windows and use a couple of fans to force hotter air out or cooler in.
We'll have to see how the next two months will turn out.
Luckily I have seen less mosquitos at night as well (thanks for degrading the bio diversity) to bother me. Speaking of which, I also noticed a significant drop in the presence of spiders this year. I guess they don't do well on a reduced food intake diet.
I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere.