Intellectual property and physical property are entirely different. Intellectual property can be shared/multiplied/given away indefinitely while still being retained by the originator while physical property cannot.
After copyright expiration, the original author of intellectual property can create derivative works even after their copyright expires (in the same universe, etc.) or even updated revisions, which restart their copyright for the revision. Even if other could do so, I suspect the market for their derivative works will still have a preference for their works vs. others who create derivative works of the original, depending on the quality of the derivatives.
It is really hard to own land (or any other physical thing) after you've sold it but the same is not true of a novel.
"Only 8 months" tells you nothing of the conditions or prison population within which he will be placed. 8 months in solitary or in a maximum-security prison (where hard-core, repeat-offender murderers and rapists are) is much harsher than years in a minimum-security prison.
Julian Assange, who hasn't even been convicted AFAIK, has been kept in solitary in a maximum-security prison while only being accused, falsely it turns out, of non-violent crimes. The reasonableness of the entire punishment must be taken into account, not just the duration.
> The reasonableness of the entire punishment must be taken into account, not just the duration.
I agree, and I am not arguing that the treatment of Craig Murray has been reasonable. I am arguing that, if this was a larger conspiracy against him, his prison sentence would be much longer.
Interesting modelling exercise but until we have physical evidence that this is occurring, and can calibrate the model to what degree, this is just an interesting hypothesis/story. Models are always subject to the GIGO and built-in-assumption confirmation problems and are always wrong, just sometimes useful.
Yes. Look up space diving. There have been old Popular Science (Popular Mechanics?) articles on it and speculation in the space community about a new sport if/when a space tether is possible.
I have personal experience with this type of situation. Twice we had excellent phone interviews for an onsite contractor position. Then, when the supposed person we interviewed showed up, they turned out not to be able to do the work (not an onsite interview, the actual work). One was so bad that they had no idea what a variable was.
>One was so bad that they had no idea what a variable was.
I'm curious as to how someone like that could even pass a phone interview. Even if they were cheating, they would have had to have been reading stuff verbatim to answer the interviewer's questions. How was this not at least picked up a little bit during the interview? How could someone with such a small amount of knowledge in the domain trick the interviewer enough that they raised no flags at all during the interview?
No, the actual previous owners of the were running access to the beach as a business. It was a road (driveway) they built and charged fees to use, not public.
After copyright expiration, the original author of intellectual property can create derivative works even after their copyright expires (in the same universe, etc.) or even updated revisions, which restart their copyright for the revision. Even if other could do so, I suspect the market for their derivative works will still have a preference for their works vs. others who create derivative works of the original, depending on the quality of the derivatives.
It is really hard to own land (or any other physical thing) after you've sold it but the same is not true of a novel.