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jmaida wrote: Do copyright laws have any sway in this case? From the Norwegian news stories, it appears that the current copyright owners claim the right to change the artistic work because they have paid for the rights.
Norwegian copyright laws are quite liberal, e.g. as a consumer you are entitled to make private copies of protected works, such as CDs and DVDs (as a main rule; there are certain minor restrictions). But: Even if the creator sells the right to make profit from the work, say to a publishing house, he has certain rights that belongs to him forever (and to his descendants), essentially associated with the 'creative' aspects. The buyer of the rights may not use it or change it in a way that defames the original work or distorts it in a disrespectful way. Obviously, if you buy the movie rights to a novel, the different medium will mandate some modifications, but these should be made proper respect for the original.
It is not so that any person sufficiently rich to buy whatever copyright he wants gains the right to modify any creative work to suit his personal tastes.
(In Norwegian, the term for such inalienable rights is 'ideal rights'. There is a corresponding, but different English term - I used to know, but right now I don't remember it.)
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Inalienable rights are a legal principle in USA (I think in England but not so sure).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
"cannot be transferred to another or others. Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable. Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable."
That being said, it's one thing to have the rights but another defending those rights in court.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I managed to dig up the English term that I couldn't remember: In copyright issues, it is called Moral Rights[^]. The Wikipedia article presents a good selection of the variations among legislations.
As you point out, defending rights in court can be a big problem, in particular if some international multi-billion-dollar company wants to market their mutilation of an original work in 170 different jurisdictions. As the creator, you frequently end up in a situation like in The Great Automatic Grammatizator[^].
(That "Grammatizator" story celebrates 70 years nowadays, in the age of ChatGPT. It is time to pick up the "Someone like you" anthology and re-read the story )
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Learned something new. This has been good discussion. Thanx
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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"His BMI was higher than average ..."
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Or the Garfield approach: "I'm not overweight, I am undertall".
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PC is idiots trying to impose their views on others.
One can be sensitive to others, without being PC.
Ed the Barbarian.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I'm trying to understand my procrastination, I'll start first thing in the morning!
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I used to have a really bad mental health problem - I was absolutely convinced my superiority complex was smaller that everyone else's . .
Where's the door - I seldom bring a coat . .
A few are great.
I am small.
Together we are the Universe.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Using a Java-based IDE for writing C++ code.
(rant of the day)
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Which one?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I can hear the Gods of C++ sobbing...
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Is using a C++-based IDE to write Java code OK? If so, why not the reverse?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Writing Java code would be frustrating per se.
Java-based IDE are slooooooooooow.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Eclipse will compile 25,000 java files in minutes and build a comprehensive database of the code during the compilation.
Maybe it is just slow dealing with C++? You might check for linting/ validation options that can be disabled.
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Eclipse was fairly new when I tried to use it, maybe 15 years ago. Maybe the build speed was high even then, but the interactive response was extremely slow. Unless you were running the fastest PC on the market, you were typing blindfolded; you saw no echo from your keystrokes, and for all supplementary functions you might as well take a walk to the coffee machine to refill your cup while waiting.
We suspected - and I still do - that the extremely sluggish interactive response was a result of a bad porting to the MS Windows environment, done by developers who had not learned how to build Windows applications (if this is correct, Eclipse is certainly not alone with such problems!), because Eclipse had a good reputation in *nix environments - that's why we thought it would be the best tool for us. But none of us had sufficiently powerful machines to run it; it was thrown out.
If the problem was a poor port to MS Windows, the problems may have been cured within a release or two. I don't know. To us, Eclipse was so extremely bad, performance wise, that we said: Never more Eclipse. Today, that may be wrong, yet I will be very reluctant to give it a new try, even after that many years. It was that bad. (Besides, I haven't been coding Java for years, and have no plans for picking it up.)
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trønderen wrote: because Eclipse had a good reputation in *nix environments
Sadly it is the best IDE on *nix environments, but not due to its merits.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: it is the best IDE on *nix environments Nah, Emacs was always the best.
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Emacs is a good OS, but it could use a decent editor.
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Quote: We suspected - and I still do - that the extremely sluggish interactive response was a result of a bad porting to the MS Windows environment, done by developers who had not learned how to build Windows applications
Some things were (maybe still are) difficult to port to Windows.
I had a bad experience and dug into it with a benchmark that: Opened multiple small files, read them, wrote them, then closed them.
The time do do this on a Windows machine on NTFS with the set of test files I had was around 1m30s. On the same Windows machine, running a virtualbox Linux, with the same files on an ext4 filesystem the benchmark took around 12s.
The reason? On Windows, various applications can (and do) hook into the "open", "write" and "close" filesystem calls. If you're running just 1 AV and a filesystem indexer like Everything, each time an application opens a file, it's three times the overhead of doing the same on some other OS.
For applications that may open lots of small files, I don't know how you'd "port" it to Windows other than by rewriting it to not use multiple small files. For something eclipse, I'd imagine that simply referencing other java projects via maven or similar is going to result in many thousands of files being downloaded.
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