Do you really own the smartphone you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
Do you really own the smartphone you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It’s unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own.
Please click http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/first_sale/%20%20?akid=1387.1994763.ZZHtzE&rd=1&t=2 to fight back by sending emails to Obama and Congress and telling them to protect our resale rights.
If we don’t speak out now, we won’t be able to sell almost anything we own — and if we do, we’ll face charges for violating intellectual property law!
First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won’t really “own” anything if it’s been made in a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
If we want to sell products that were made abroad, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks — even our homes — we’ll have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they’ll have the right to deny it!
This is bad for so many reasons: It’ll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to make things and move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale.
note: this is really getting ridiculous. never before in this countries history have we seen such threats to our freedom coming from our own government. what is going on these days? why this big push to ruin our economy???
Thanks for the Alert
The original intent of copyright was to give some protection to creative production, but the movement described by kc8gpd is a perversion of that original intention.
In fact, the copyright forces coming after us are not creative producers themselves, but an organized force who pose as representatives of artists who have been put in the same place as “child labor”, that is, on a treadmill to create for their owners.
The general public has been coaxed into this trap by the easy access to so many goodies that have addicted us to the point where we can’t imagine life without the stuff.
When in Germany, do as the Germans do. No, wait, that’s not the right advice.
Steps Taken From Past
“what is going on these days? why this big push to ruin our economy???”
First step to mass control is to make them dependent. It becomes even easier when the dependents are using a system designed to make the masses dependent. Even that more easier when said system is also designed to slowly degrade with little notice. It allows for another system to be morphed into place..again with little to no notice.
All the while, training takes place through media in all forms to accept dependence and fear as something normal.
First we are told we must protect our freedoms from terrorists.
Then we are told we must watch our neighbors and fellow wally world shoppers for anything suspicious and report it.
Later we are told to help those who destroyed us. (big bank bailout)
Recently the true unemployment figures were exposed and stocks take a massive dive.
Industries closed and moved overseas, turning this nation from an innovative creative society into a “may I help you mam/sir.
Our drive thru orders are taken by outsourced personnel sitting in overseas countries.
We can no longer protest at ANY political event that has secret service agents assigned because it is a felony to do so. This is an important one as it DOES directly affect the first amendment right to freedom of speech. It also has a direct effect to our very hobby and radio communications as a whole.
How would you hams’s feel if the FCC and the government required you to speak of nothing political or social or religious or even something as harmless as a personal opinion?
This very content of this very post can be declared as “threatening” by the current control system, even though it is a mere point of view from 1 individual amongst millions.
Nothing that is going on is anything new. It’s been building up to this for a number of years but no one wanted to listen back then, calling it silly, or nutjob conspiracy whick whack.
The answer is simple. Do not become dependent for every little thing from the very system designed to make you dependent for every little thing you need…including thinking.
RFB
Hmmmmm
Nobody would want the old stuff in my
house.
Come to think of it, I don’t think anybody
would want my house, either.
Or my car.
Well, it’s really my wife’s car.
Brooce,
DRS2
Your Station
Don’t forget your biggest asset, your radio station!
You always hoped to sell it and retire to the Bahamas, but now it is copyright by Radio Recyclers Corporation and they won’t let you sell it.
Worth
My radio station is worth about 350
dollars.
The house is worth about 250 dollars.
The car is worth 10 bucks.
What’s the problem?
Brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooce
DRS2
Hey Brce,For a moment I
Hey Bruce,
For a moment I thought we were running about equal in our assets.
But your house is worth more than mine!
This is just an attempt by
This is just an attempt by large corporations to stop the gray market of goods (where you can purchase and import something cheaper outside the U.S. or Canada than what you can get it for inside from the ‘official’ distributor. And it’s not the first time.
I’m not going to comment on the merits of the case; I’m usually wary of hysterical websites like the one linked to that are pretty one-sided. It’s far better to go directly to the original sources and find out what’s really going on.
But even if the Supreme Court upholds that lower court ruling (which I doubt), the corporations just may end up regretting it. Because who’s going to buy a product that you can’t resell later on if you want to? E-bay and craigslist have become an integral part of our lives and are environmentally friendly as well. What I think will happen is that rather than killing the economy, it will end up stimulating it (admittedly after a period of time), as onshore manufacturers will seize the opportunity to make the products that people CAN resell. For the right of sale doctrine will apply to those products. Capitalism will win out in the end.
To RadioBoy
This is to everybody, but RadioBoy,
your post really made me laugh!
I’m not alone – yay!
And big kudos for keeping the spirit
of WJJD/1160/Chicago alive!!
Bruce, DRS2
Foggy Memory
In about 2006 I got the AMT3000 that got me restarted in part 15 after a long side-trip in professional radio.
One of the first frequencies I used was 1160kHz, because it is very clear down river and across the state from Chicago.
But I’m pretty sure that at times a Chicago station came in, and it might have been WJJD.
Of course a 3-meter antenna does very little at 1160, so I began inching higher.
Happy to spread a little cheer!
Brice, I figured you’d get a kick out of it. It’s not fat from the truth – we have a 1989 Destiny doublewide that has had problems from Day 1. But there’s no mortgage – I paid it off in 2001 so we just fix what we can when we have enough saved up to do it. New roof is next and I hope to have that done by September.
Back to radio – my reincarnation of WJJD will be 9 years old in July. I first went on the air on July 9, 2001 with a Christian format but flipped to country on July 27, 2003. I had to get permission to use the original jingles from WJJD, but it was granted earlier in 2003, and the move to country was underway.
I’ve mentioned in other posts that I once used a Cunningham transmitter. It was on 1160 and covered about two miles with a reasonably listenable signal. One rainy Sunday afternoon someone reported hearing it about four miles away from the station site.
I used to do a weekday morning show complete with weather and such. A radio friend told me one morning he was scanning the AM band and heard one of the weather forecasts. “Sounded like a real radio station,” he told me later.
One of the station treasures is a gold record of Wayne Newton’s “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast,” which once hung in the Chicago WJJD’s main lobby.
The FCC-issued WJJD calls are now on an LPFM in Kokomo, IL. It’s a religious station to which the calls probably mean little. I ID as “Big D Country, Tallahassee” but use the WJJD jingles the rest of the time!
Gave It a Try
Hi radioboy. I just tuned in to your stream on Terra Radio and got to hear one of those really neat WJJD jingles. Your sound quality is super.
If there was a letter before “A” in the alphabet you would get that, but the first letter is just “A” and you get an “A” for quality.
Thanks, Carl!
I really appreciate the kind words. I put a lot of time into the station. I’m always looking for classic country I don’t have to add to the mix.
I expect I’ll be back to a daily live show around August. Between moving the station to its new digs, family visits and my sister moving back to town in July, the summer is pretty full until then.
However, I do change out the music and playlists daily (or almost daily) to keep it sounding fresh.
Alan
Country Time
Since no one asked me, I will tell my country radio history.
In the mid 1950s WEW, 770 AM owned then by St. Louis U., broadcast a classical format with 1kW. Since I lived a block away, I would sit often in their little visiting area outside a big plate glass and watch the three guys, an announcer, an engineer at the board, and a turntable operator with the big 16″ transcription tables. They sold the station for $5,000 and the new owner went all country.
Only a few years later I got a summer job at the new WEW location, downtown in a hotel. I felt like Flash Frisbone, a radio legend that is familiar to some.
Some time went by and a new station at 920 on the dial signed on with all country, and I got the 9 to noon slot, but the owner rejected my preferred air name of “the City Bumpkin.”
Then more years later a station at 690 AM put me on summer relief on a German music show, but that station HAD been country, and still had a huge LP library that filled a whole room of shelves 12-feet long with thousands of country albums. I thought of bidding on the library, but my own general collection was already 10,000 records, and I didn’t want the house to cave in.
Now, here in the after life, I’ll leave the driving to radioboy and other fine stations, and just enjoy the ride.
this is a better explanation
this is a better explanation of whats going on and why it will affect us here and not just imported goods.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/06/if-youve-ever-sold-a-used-ipod-you-may-have-violated-copyright-law/258276/
A few quick comments
Thank you, Robert, for the link.
I will look it up.
RadioBoy, I may have mentioned this
before, but when WJJD was in Chicago
on 1160, it was 50,000 day only. I
logged it many times here in Connecticut
around sunset. We’re talking decades ago.
Whatever is in Chicago on 1160 probably
has nighttime authorization now – of course
1160 is jammed up with signals. Not like
in the days when I could sit at the beach
at night in Rhode Island and hear KSL/1160
Salt Lake City, UT.
Carl, since you are a classical music expert,
the fact that you did country on a couple of
different stations is just another interesting
part of your whole story.
Gotta go to bed. Big day at work tomorrow.
Best of Wishes Always,
Bruce, DRS2
Very Kind
You’re probably asleep by now, but thank you Doggradio Studio 2 for making me a classical music expert. I didn’t know I was.