Please support a petition to add carcinogens to the water supply...

A further evidence that burqa is incompatible with modernity:
(see attachment in previous post)
(though this is more a serious social matter than silly humor)

she was walking down the street, then whoosh! her dress blew up

Whilst it might make a lot of sense to some, I have to say that my old school never did anything as exciting as this ...   

Don't tell me... It's a field trip here. Lucky kids! 

[attach]

This is just too damn good. I debated putting it in its own thread, but, well, it's here:

Fuck Copyright

Enjoy! And feel free to copy it if you like.

This is just too damn good. I debated putting it in its own thread, but, well, it's here:

Fuck Copyright

Enjoy! And feel free to copy it if you like.

There's some really good ones there.

Too bad the "license" is a little strange. I'm sure someone would make a ruckus about it. : (

No I'm serious Tomos,
Specifically because they chose to lampoon copyright, but then their site says "copy out of love", that's too vague.

Hence I was making a meta-comment. Because that means I could borrow stuff all over their site and do random things, and one day they'd get grumpy, and then you get back to how nothing is ever as simple as "copy out of love" - that's what Creative Commons was supposed to be.

It might outline the idea, but reality and the law doesn't quite work like that.

http://c4sif.org/2012/02/are-creative-commons-licenses-even-enforceable/

Nothing takes the place of a document spelling out your rights under whatever license the creator decides to grant you, hand signed by the copyright holder. That document is proof of permission. Anything else, no matter how fluffy and feel good it is, is not a suitable legally binding substitute.*

Well, yes and no.

As the owner, you're able to do whatever you want with it. If you declare your license to be what she's described, then that's it. e.g. If you release something into the public domain, well, there it is. Done.

The reality is that this is a bit of contract law that has never been tested in any court. So, how the courts would deem to screw people over is as of yet unknown.

Here's a license that I'll just pull out of my ass:

---

THE RENEGADE ETERNAL ALDEBARAN LICENSE (A.K.A. The REAL license)

You are hereby granted an unlimited, perpetual and non-revocable right to do whatever you darn well feel like with the materials pursuant to the following conditions:

a) You may not seek legal recourse for any of your use or non-use of the materials.
b) You agree that no court may make any ruling on your use or non-use of the materials.
c) In the event of any loophole in the above conditions, you agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Aldebaran system in the Taurus constellation.

---

It's a simple agreement that falls under contract law, but isn't enforceable by any of our corrupt courts. (Yeah, there are holes in it... it should be a viral license, but whatever - close enough. The point is that it hasn't been tested in court.)

Actually Renny, it doesn't fall under contract law.

No?

Since the elements of a contract are
Offer - Acceptance - Consideration - Capacity - Legality, you get stuck because you can't sign a contract that says "no court may make a ruling on this".

Well, IANAL, but I see no reason why you and I can't make an agreement and for both of us to explicitly deny the courts any jurisdiction. We *can* do that. Now, how much any court would respect that, I don't know. They tend to like meddling in people's business. But the point above was that the Copyheart license hasn't been tested.

Well, IANAL, but I see no reason why you and I can't make an agreement and for both of us to explicitly deny the courts any jurisdiction. We *can* do that. Now, how much any court would respect that, I don't know. They tend to like meddling in people's business. But the point above was that the Copyheart license hasn't been tested.

Unless the law is cooler in Aussieland, you *can't* do that - you can't make a contract that is literally unenforceable by law. That's what that last term means.

So no matter how much dear ol' Renny says he wants to, Some Contracts Cannot Be Made. They basically cease to "legally" exist about 0.000000314159236 milliseconds after they are made.

A more silly exaggerated example is "I promise to shoot myself in the head if Microsoft Stock doesn't rise 17 points with Ballmer's departure".

p.s. please take the "anal" out of not being a lawyer. It's the worst tragedy of acronyms ever created!

Ren, and anyone else interested,

Instead of discussing copyright and unenforceable contracts in this humor thread, maybe it would be better in the original thread I started with that very link I posted earlier: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=30129.0

I used my dark Cthulhu magical powers to raise the necrothread! MWAHAHAHA!

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=30129.msg335499#msg335499