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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: (not) my style 667
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-15-15  01:57 <=-

 >  ML> I looked it up - 8 of 9 Internet references are to
 >  ML> United Airlines, so that's no help. The ninth is to
 >  ML> a DVD about fish that is described as "cosmic mook
 >  ML> salt water lure fishing."
 > So, perhaps some (non-)linguist/chef at United made it up... ;)
 ML> Weller has parsed this in another post, having done a
 ML> more creative searching than mine.

Yes, I noticed that...  :)  Sounded like it should have been done up a
lot tastier than you got it...  :)

 > I only made it through one master's level course... Daddy went straight
 > thru to his PhD, although he did take off a couple years in the middle
 ML> My academic career left some shards and blind alleyways,
 ML> now manifested in ancient paper records that no one will
 ML> ever see I'm sure.

A few of those here, too... ;)

 > obsessive achievement, to be honest...  ;)  She never really did
 > anything with the degrees, but then, she didn't get the last one until
 > after I was through college...  :)
 ML> I may have told you about the mother of a friend of mine;
 ML> she got her graduate degree in law but couldn't practice,
 ML> because she wasn't allowed to take the bar exam, because 
 ML> she was under the age of 21. She had to work so got a job
 ML> as a law librarian, which she did part-time for 40 years.
 ML> Bit of a waste that, but her life was actually pretty good.

Mommy was working at the Sibley Music Library to help finance her Music
Masters... She decided she liked it enough to want to study that, too...
I'm not sure if she had any aspirations to make either into a career, it
seemed like most of it was just to achieve the goal... after all, Daddy
had promised HER father that he would make sure she would finish college
after they were married...  They accomplished that promise, anyway... :)

 >  ML> There's some guy who was in the news who had 29 going
 >  ML> on 30 of the things. One wonders.
 > Some of them stay perpetual students instead of facing the real world... 
 ML> I dodged the real world by becoming a musician.

There are days when I wish that I'd dodged the real world... and then
there are people that figure I did anyway, by staying in the helping
professions... and only teaching piano for "egg" money....

 >  ML> reserves all rights only if s/he actually has any. It's
 >  ML> mostly a bluff, and documents that claim this (especially
 >  ML> recipes) I automatically consider a little fishy.
 > Yup, especially recipes, since there are only so many ways one can do
 > certain things... :)  
 ML> The law says that if there is creative content attached
 ML> to the recipe, that can be copyrighted, but ingredients
 ML> lists and mere directions are never copyrightable.

Makes sense to me...  :)

 > I've put a similar notice on the music I've
 > written, mostly for documenting the date of composition, but also to
 > announce my ownership... Not much I probably could really do,
 > realistically, if stolen, since I've not registered my copyright...
 ML> There used to be a procedure used as a "poorman's 
 ML> copyright" - you took a copy of your work, sealed in an
 ML> envelope, and mailed it to yourself, of course not
 ML> opening it when it arrived; the theory was that in 
 ML> case of infringement, one could submit the envelope as
 ML> evidence at trial, where it would be opened up, the
 ML> date of creation ante quem being proven by the postmark.

I've done that, at least once... but at the moment, don't remember what
I was copyrighting, or, for that matter, where I put it afterwards...
the latter, I do have some probable places, at least... ;)

 ML> There was at one time, and I'm not sure if or how this
 ML> was resolved, a debate about the effect of posting 
 ML> something under one's name on the Internet or other 
 ML> public forum did to the status of original work - 
 ML> whether copyright still "inhered" to the creator/poster
 ML> or if the act put the work in the public domain.

I heard about that... don't remember the outcome, either...

ttyl      neb

... Those who lose dreaming are lost. Australian Aboriginal Proverb

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