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Instituting Copyright: Reconciling Copyright Law and Industry Practice in the Australian Film and Television Sector
No full textIntroduction: The law/practice conundrum When considering how rights are created and income streams generated in practice in the Australian film and television industry, legal scholarship invariably views these issues through the lens of formal copyright law. This approach involves asking well-established questions such as whether copyright subsists in particular types of subject matter being created and traded, who owns that copyright, and the scope of the resultant rights. When looked at in this way, it would seem that there are significant uncertainties as to the extent to which some cultural products are in fact legally protected, or who (if anyone) can be said to own the rights to them. For example, it is accepted that under Australian law something described at such a high level of abstraction as a ‘television format’ is not recognized as a species of copyright ‘work’ or ‘subject matter’. Even though aspects of television formats might constitute literary or dramatic works and receive copyright protection on that basis, a format per se is not something that is capable of being owned, assigned, licensed or infringed under copyright law. In a related manner, under Australian law the right to make an ‘adaptation’ of a literary or dramatic work is narrowly defined and the boundaries of the scope of the right to make a ‘reproduction’ of a substantial part of such a work are unclear. This means that it cannot be said with any degree of certainty that Australian copyright law protects ‘characters’ or gives copyright owners the right to make sequels, spin-offs or similar variations of their content. These copyright limitations are likely to be entirely familiar to legal scholars and students of copyright law, and similar uncertainties affect many jurisdictions. What is equally well-known is that there is a significant disjuncture between the formal law and how, in practice, cultural subject matter is in fact managed and income streams are generated. It is common knowledge that there is a long-standing industry practice of buying and selling rights to television formats, with the annual global trade in format rights valued at over 3 billion euros
An overview of the ATLAS High Level Trigger Dataflow and Supervision.
Full text linkThe ATLAS high-level trigger (HLT) system provides software-based event selection after the initial LVL1 hardware trigger. It is composed of two stages, the LVL2 trigger and the event filter (EF). The LVL2 trigger performs event selection with optimized algorithms using selected data guided by Region of Interest pointers provided by the LVL1 trigger. Those events selected by LVL2 are built into complete events, which are passed to the EF for a further stage of event selection and classification using off-line algorithms. Events surviving the EF selection are passed for off-line storage. The two stages of HLT are implemented on processor farms. The concept of distributing the selection process between LVL2 and EF is a key element in the architecture, which allows it to be flexible to changes (luminosity, detector knowledge, background conditions, etc.) Although there are some differences in the requirements between these subsystems there are many commonalities. An overview of the dataflow (event selection) and supervision (control, configuration, monitoring) activities in the HLT is given, highlighting where commonalities between the two subsystems can be exploited and indicating where requirements dictate that implementations differ. An HLT prototype system has been built at CERN. Functional testing is being carried out in order to validate the HLT architecture
Franchise Dynamics, Creativity and the Law
No full textThe importance of studying franchises The invention of an entertainment concept rich enough to sustain a franchise has become an accepted indicator of original creative genius in the twenty-first century. However, the relationship between creativity, economic opportunity and intellectual property law in the context of entertainment franchises is not well understood. One of the reasons for this relates to the complexity of factors involved, as well as the role of serendipity. A short consideration of the origins of a world-famous franchise, now entering its fiftieth year, provides a case in point. ‘Hold tight and pretend it’s a plan!’: The Doctor Who franchise Given its origins, it is a wonder that Doctor Who even lasted beyond its first four episodes in 1963. The show had been conceived of by the BBC’s Head of Drama, Sydney Newman, in early 1963, as little more than an educational, science fiction drama that would appeal to children, in order to plug a gap in Saturday evening programming. The idea of a science fiction programme was frowned upon by some within the BBC, who disliked the genre’s associations with comic books and American pulp fiction, something that helps explain the initial lack of institutional support for the development of the show
Dog-handler dynamics influence avalanche search team's performance.
No full textAvalanche search dogs represent an irreplaceable resource in case of environmental disasters. The “Alpine Rescue of Guardia di Finanza Project” is a broad research project aimed to identify limiting factors affecting teams’ performance. This work focused on behavioral dynamics between dog and handler during a simulated avalanche search trial. A warmed up scent article was randomly buried under the snow (-20cm), avoiding olfactory pollution, in fields prepared to resemble an avalanche fall environment (10mt x 15mt; 2170masl). Twelve dog-handler Units were individually video recorded and videos were analyzed through focal animal sampling of behavioral categories related to the dog-handler relationship (dog-handler tactile and visual communication, reciprocal position and distance). Nine of the 20 trials analyzed (45%) were successful with a mean latency of 148s. Principal component analysis included 15 behavioral traits and extracted three principal components (PCs) explaining 71% of the variation. PC1 mainly included items describing orientation of the dog compared with the handler and vice versa. PC2 included items related to dog’s spatial position within the field in relation to its handler. PC3 included handler-directed behaviors of the dog. High score of PC3, indicating frequent visual and physical contacts, reduced the likelihood of success (odd ratio= 0.144; 95% CI= 0.034–0.612; p=0.009). These findings suggest the dog’s behaviors directed to the handler may indicate insecurity during an avalanche search and negatively affect team’s performance. Dogs less dependent on their handlers spent more time interacting with the environment and performed better during the avalanche search trial.
Keywords: avalanche dog; dog-handler relationship; search performanc
FACTORS INFLUENCING FARMERS' SELECTION OF A MILK HANDLER
Full text linkA structural probit model is estimated to determine the change in the probability of selecting a milk handler. Cooperatives are thought to have lower prices and higher deductions than independent milk handlers and these factors reduce the probability that a farmer will select a cooperative by 0.39 and 0.32. Cooperatives are thought to have better services and an assured market and payment than independent mile handlers and these factors increase the probability that a farmer will select a cooperative by 0.20 and 0.26. This indicates that many cooperative members value monetary characteristics over non-monetary characteristics.Cooperatives, Processors, Attributes, Selection, Probit, Dairy, Livestock Production/Industries,
Worker Protection Standard: Requirements for Commercial Pesticide Handler Employers
No full textIn 1992, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued a comprehensive regulation called the Worker Protection Standard for Agricultural Pesticides (WPS). The EPA has made several changes to the WPS since it was fully implemented in 1995. This 5-page document will address the WPS protections commercial pesticide handler employers must provide to their handlers. Written by Frederick M. Fishel and published by the UF/IFAS Agronomy Department, January 2018.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pi27
Former U.S. Postal Service mail handler Lisa M. Burns, 38, was sentenced in fede
No full textFormer U.S. Postal Service mail handler Lisa M. Burns, 38, was sentenced in federal court to 60 days in prison for stealing two bearer coupons worth $15 from the Naples Post Office. This is the eighth postal theft case in Maine in three years, and brings the number of cases over the past decade to more than fifty. Details
Worker Protection Standard: Requirements for Commercial Pesticide Handler Employers
Full text linkIn 1992, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued a comprehensive regulation called the Worker Protection Standard for Agricultural Pesticides (WPS). The EPA has made several changes to the WPS since it was fully implemented in 1995. This 5-page document will address the WPS protections commercial pesticide handler employers must provide to their handlers. Written by Frederick M. Fishel and published by the UF/IFAS Agronomy Department, January 2018.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pi27
Worker Protection Standard: Requirements for Commercial Pesticide Handler Employers
No full textIn 1992, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued a comprehensive regulation called the Worker Protection Standard for Agricultural Pesticides (WPS). The EPA has made several changes to the WPS since it was fully implemented in 1995. This 5-page document will address the WPS protections commercial pesticide handler employers must provide to their handlers. Written by Frederick M. Fishel and published by the UF/IFAS Agronomy Department, January 2018.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pi27
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