Not a weekend day!
Mar. 20th, 2007 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpWhen it became clear that no time could be spared over the weekend to go do anything, Galina tried to look on the bright side, saying "Well, nothing's to prevent you from taking a day off during the week!"
True enough, but let me add: Today was not that day.
I really didn't get much done, after a fitful night's sleep. I think I finally drifted off around 1 am, and I remember tossing and turning for a while after waking at 4:30 am, so I got up will less than jubilant enthusiasm when Galina shook my shoulder to have me print something that had arrived in her email.
She had an appointment downtown, so just as I was sitting down to the task of chasing some paper, she suggests that perhaps she could drop me off at some distance from the house, so that I could get some exercise walking back.
Why not?
She dropped me off at the McDonald's across from Baybrook Mall, after we ate breakfast. ("I though we were going to Starbucks?" I said, as we entered. "This is my Starbucks," she replied, as we got in line.) Then she took off.
The easy way home would've been to go back the way we had come, about 1.2 miles if Google Earth doesn't lie. Instead, I made my way on foot on Bay Area over I-45 to the Barnes & Noble, looked around for a bit, and then struck out along the I-45 frontage road toward Nasa Rd 1. Once there, I again took the overpass over I-45, heading home.
The rest of the way was pretty straightforward, and I worked up a good sweat. What I didn't like was the constant traffic coming from over my shoulder and having to keep my head down to keep from stepping on fire ant colonies.
In all, the walk was about 3.2 miles long, after which I showered and took a nap.
Just as I was sitting down to chase paper again after rising, Galina asked if I wanted to go meet the guy she hired to do some repair work on a property in Seabrook. How could I say no?
And so it went, to the property, and back, and here and there, and swizzle if I'm not tired again.
The translation plate was refilled again just before I napped, after two false starts (one job canceled almost as soon as it was assigned, as the document had already been translated, and another job that I was late in responding to, as the original query was not sent to my work email). In any event, the job that did materialize weighs in at more than 10,000 source words, due Monday. I should probably not let it sit, as I seem to be a fairly popular fellow during the weekends.
* * * In other news, Ars Technica reports that the NFL may have stepped squarely into a cow pie of its own making when they sent a second DMCA takedown notice to YouTube over law professor (and EFF staff attorney) Wendy Seltzer's posting of a clip showing a copyright message from the NFL that aired during the Super Bowl:
Anyway, it turns out the first time the NFL sent YouTube a DMCA takedown notice, Seltzer responded with a counter-notification, as provided for by the law, stating that YouTube had to replace the material if they receive a counter-notification asserting "good faith belief" that the material removal was a mistake.
According to the Ars Technica article, 12 days after the clip was restored, the NFL filed yet another takedown notice with YouTube for the clip, and YouTube complied once again. From the article:
This should be an interesting case to follow.
True enough, but let me add: Today was not that day.
I really didn't get much done, after a fitful night's sleep. I think I finally drifted off around 1 am, and I remember tossing and turning for a while after waking at 4:30 am, so I got up will less than jubilant enthusiasm when Galina shook my shoulder to have me print something that had arrived in her email.
She had an appointment downtown, so just as I was sitting down to the task of chasing some paper, she suggests that perhaps she could drop me off at some distance from the house, so that I could get some exercise walking back.
Why not?
She dropped me off at the McDonald's across from Baybrook Mall, after we ate breakfast. ("I though we were going to Starbucks?" I said, as we entered. "This is my Starbucks," she replied, as we got in line.) Then she took off.
The easy way home would've been to go back the way we had come, about 1.2 miles if Google Earth doesn't lie. Instead, I made my way on foot on Bay Area over I-45 to the Barnes & Noble, looked around for a bit, and then struck out along the I-45 frontage road toward Nasa Rd 1. Once there, I again took the overpass over I-45, heading home.
The rest of the way was pretty straightforward, and I worked up a good sweat. What I didn't like was the constant traffic coming from over my shoulder and having to keep my head down to keep from stepping on fire ant colonies.
In all, the walk was about 3.2 miles long, after which I showered and took a nap.
Just as I was sitting down to chase paper again after rising, Galina asked if I wanted to go meet the guy she hired to do some repair work on a property in Seabrook. How could I say no?
And so it went, to the property, and back, and here and there, and swizzle if I'm not tired again.
The translation plate was refilled again just before I napped, after two false starts (one job canceled almost as soon as it was assigned, as the document had already been translated, and another job that I was late in responding to, as the original query was not sent to my work email). In any event, the job that did materialize weighs in at more than 10,000 source words, due Monday. I should probably not let it sit, as I seem to be a fairly popular fellow during the weekends.
This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience, and any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent is prohibited.(I'm tempted to publish an "account" of the Super Bowl here in my LiveJournal, in a couple of sentences, mentioning who played and who won, just to tweak the NFL for such an idiotic exaggerated statement of their rights, but I am so football-challenged that... well... I don't know who played or who won... nor do I particularly care.)
Anyway, it turns out the first time the NFL sent YouTube a DMCA takedown notice, Seltzer responded with a counter-notification, as provided for by the law, stating that YouTube had to replace the material if they receive a counter-notification asserting "good faith belief" that the material removal was a mistake.
According to the Ars Technica article, 12 days after the clip was restored, the NFL filed yet another takedown notice with YouTube for the clip, and YouTube complied once again. From the article:
This is where the saga starts to get messy. Seltzer's counter-notification—which was forwarded to the NFL from YouTube—clearly described her use of the clip as fair use: "an educational excerpt featuring the NFL's overreaching copyright warning aired during the Super Bowl." As Seltzer outlines in her blog post, the NFL's only option in response to her counter-claim would be to force her to remove the clip via court proceedings. This obviously did not happen, and instead, the NFL chose to ignore her claims completely. After receiving her counter-notification claiming fair use, sending another takedown notice over the same content is considered a knowing misrepresentation that the clip is infringing, according to DMCA section 512(f)(1).In short, the NFL, it would appear, violated the DMCA with its second takedown notice!
This should be an interesting case to follow.
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