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No immunizations or vaccinations are required before you can enter Jordan. However, before you travel, it's a good idea to make sure you're up to date with immunizations against hepatitis A, polio, tetanus (lockjaw), tuberculosis and typhoid fever. You should consult a doctor at least two months in advance of your departure date, as there are some immunizations that can't be given at the same time, and several take a while to become effective.
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Top of the list of Jordan's maladies, well ahead of the worst creepy-crawlies, is dehydration, which can work insidiously over days to weaken you to the point of exhaustion without your ever showing any signs of illness. If you're sweating profusely during activity (such as hiking), even experienced walkers can go from alert and vigorous to dizzy and apathetic in as little as half an hour, due to heat exhaustion and loss of body fluids. It is essential to carry lots of water with you on these walks: one bottle is not enough.
An adult should normally drink two litres of water a day; from day one in the Middle East, you should be drinking at least three litres – and, if you're exerting yourself in hot conditions, more than double that. It's a matter of pride among the desert bedouin not to drink water in front of foreigners, but if you copy them you're likely to make yourself ill. Drinking to quench your thirst just isn't enough in a hot climate: you must drink well beyond that if you're to head off lethargy and splitting headaches. Alcohol and caffeine exacerbate the effects of dehydration.
Heat exhaustion and sunstroke
The Jordanian sun can be scorchingly intense, and – obvious though it sounds – you should do all you can to avoid sun exposure, especially if you're travelling in high summer (May–Sept). Head protection is essential. Lightweight 100 percent cotton clothes – such as long-sleeved shirts, and long trousers or ankle-length skirts – will allow air to circulate close to your skin to keep you cool and limit both sunburn and dehydration. If you feel very hot, dizzy and faint but aren't sweating, you may have sunstroke: get out of direct sun and into air conditioning and/or cold water as soon as possible. Call a doctor if symptoms worsen.
Travellers' diarrhoea
If you arrive in Jordan directly from the West (or Israel), give your stomach a chance to acclimatize: avoid street food for a few days and spend a little extra to eat in posher, but cleaner, restaurants. Every eating place, from the diviest diner upwards, will have a sink with soap for washing your hands. Nonetheless, few travellers seem to avoid diarrhoea altogether. Instant recourse to drugs such as Imodium or Lomotil that plug you up (in fact, what they do is paralyse your gut) is not advisable; you should only use them if you absolutely must travel (eg if you're flying). The best thing to do is to wait, eat small amounts of dry food such as toast or crackers if you feel able and let it run its course, while constantly replacing the fluids and salts that you're flushing away. Maintaining fluid intake (even if it all rushes out again) is vitally important. Oral rehydration solutions such as Dioralyte or Electrosol are widely available worldwide, sold in sachets for dissolving in a glassful of clean water. They're marketed as being for babies, but will make you feel better and stronger than any other treatment. If you can't get the sachets, make up your own solution with one heaped teaspoon of salt and twelve level teaspoons of sugar added to a standard-sized (1.5-litre) bottle of mineral water. You need to keep downing the stuff, whether or not the diarrhoea is continuing – at least a litre of the solution per day interspersed with three litres of fresh water. Bouts of diarrhoea rarely last longer than 24–48 hours.
If it goes on for longer than four days, seek medical advice. Nasty but easily treatable diseases such as giardiasis and amoebiasis must be tested for by a stool examination. If there is blood in your diarrhoea, you've most likely got dysentery and must see a doctor.
Bites and stings
Malaria is not present in Jordan, though mosquitoes and sandflies are. Snakes are frightened of humans; if you walk slowly and noisily, any snakes present will slither away. To avoid tangling with scorpions and spiders never walk barefoot, and if you're camping always shake out your shoes and clothes before wearing them.
Treatment in Jordan
Every town has a pharmacy (saydaliyyeh), generally staffed by fluent English-speaking professionals trained to Western standards. Unless you're obviously a hospital case, this is where you should head first, since a pharmacist charges nothing for a "consultation", and can either prescribe a remedy on the spot or refer you to a local doctor. If you're given a medicine, find out explicitly from the pharmacist what the dosage is, since printed English information on the box might be sketchy.
If you need a doctor (doktoor), ask your embassy to recommend one or check first with a pharmacist. All doctors are trained in English, many in hospitals in the UK or US. If you're in real trouble, aim for the emergency room of a hospital (moostashfa) – and call the emergency helpline of your embassy to ask for advice. Consultation fees and medical costs are much lower than back home, but you should still get signed receipts for everything in order to claim money back from your insurance company when you return.
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The beautiful and captivating Amelia. This bodacious babe makes every man thirsty with desire. If you are new to the Manchester area and you want someone to show you around, Amelia can do just that. Getting to know her, you will find out that she is a fun loving individual with brains to match; she likes to laugh and can match any conversation. Outgoing and witty, this beauty speaks English and French with ease. Amelia is a typical European beauty that likes to have a good time. With brown hair and brown eyes, she is 5'5 and is every man's perfect companion. This open minded 24 year old is the perfect escort for a perfect evening. She feels that curves are what make a woman a woman and therefore, every woman should dress in order to accentuate these curves. In her spare time, Amelia likes to read Ted Dekker novels and work out. This European babe is definitely worth your time and effort.


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For a special summer cruise, consider sailing Northern Europe. During the long summer days, cruise ships visit ports on the Baltic Sea, along Norway's mountainous coast and in the British Isles. When sailing the Baltic, the diverse ports of call often include Copenhagen, Denmark; Helsinki, Finland, St. Petersburg, Russia; and Tallinn, Estonia.
Copenhagen is situated where the North Sea meets the Baltic. Many of the city's attractions are within easy walking distance of the cruise ship dock. You can see the famous statue of the Little Mermaid, as well as Tivoli Gardens and Stroget, a lively shopping street, with only the power of your own two feet.
As you approach Helsinki, your ship will wind around forested islands before docking right in the city. Visit the Esplanade, a tree-lined pedestrian boulevard, and take a break in one of the many sidewalk cafes. You can also take a tour of the city's stunning modern architecture.
Tourism is structured in St. Petersburg, the city of the Czars. Visitors are required to stay with their guides, so there's little opportunity to ramble on your own. Still, staying with your group is no impediment to seeing the incredible sights of this historic city: ornate palaces, churches with gilded onion-shaped domes and exquisite statues and fountains.
In Tallinn, gleaming modern skyscrapers overlook the walled, medieval old town. It's fascinating to stroll along the narrow, cobbled streets, visiting churches, ancient towers, and delightful shops and restaurants.
Some Northern European cruises focus on sailing the spectacular fjords of Norway's North Sea coast. Others begin or end in the British Isles, where you could visit Inverness, Edinburgh or London. You can also enjoy Northern Europe via a river cruise: for example, a cruise of Russia's Volga River can take you to St. Petersburg, Moscow and the picturesque villages and towns in between.
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Is the way to agencies' hearts through the Super Bowl? BlackBerry seems to think so.
As part of its Jan. 30 launch event, the company formerly known as Research in Motion announced that it will for the first time run a commercial during Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday. The above image is a still shot from the forthcoming commercial. BlackBerry is sharing this image on all of its social media outlets, which include over 30 million people between Facebook and Twitter.
This is definitely a sign that BlackBerry — which announced it was dropping Research in Motion as the company's name and changing it to the product itself — wants to appeal to a mass market, which these days could be the way to win back its government and other enterprise users.
BlackBerry traditionally has been viewed as a "work phone" that people used on the job. But in order to maintain its share of government users in the new "bring your own device" paradigm, the company needs to adjust its products and marketing to appeal to the commercial market. After all, any smart phone is becoming a work phone. So a Super Bowl ad seems a good place to start.
BlackBerry 10, the new operating system with features for both on- and off-the-job use, performed well in our test drive in November 2012, and it has generally received good reviews elsewhere. Late last year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed up to try BlackBerry 10 devices as part of a pilot.
But BlackBerry still has a way to go. Despite the launch earlier this week, the first BB10 phone — the Z10 — won't show up until March and versions with a physical keyboard will take a little longer.
So we'll still have to wait to see if BB10 really is a good option for enterprise users. Meanwhile, everyone have a great and safe Super Bowl Sunday, and, for the record – Go Ravens!
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Stolen car, Greyhound bus collide; 1 dead, 19 hurt
RICHMOND. Ind. — A Richmond man driving a vehicle that was reported stolen died Sunday morning when he collided with a passenger bus on Interstate 70, injuring another 19 people.
Just after 7 a.m. Sunday, Wayne County emergency officials began receiving 9-1-1 calls about a traffic accident west of the 149 mile marker in the eastbound lanes of I-70. Reports indicated a 1990 Ford Mustang and a Greyhound bus were involved.
When Wayne County sheriff's deputies arrived, they found the driver of the Mustang, identified as Phillip Lloyd of Richmond, dead at the scene and several occupants of the bus injured.
EMS units from all areas of Wayne County as well as units from Ohio and the Richmond Fire Department responded to the scene to assist, according to a press release from Wayne County Sheriff Jeff Cappa.
Traffic investigators from the Wayne County Sheriff's Department say the Mustang had been reported stolen from Love's Truck Stop in Richmond just before the crash.
The Mustang was driven westbound in the eastbound lanes of I-70 before the crash. That portion of the interstate is divided by a median with a cable barrier, so officials are unsure how the Mustang came to be going the wrong way in the eastbound lanes.
Evidence at the scene points to the impact coming in the driving lane of the eastbound portion of I-70.
Nineteen passengers from the bus were treated at Reid Hospital, Larry Price, director of community relations at the Richmond facility, said shortly after noon Sunday.
One passenger was transferred by helicopter to an Indianapolis hospital. Price did not know which hospital or the condition of the patient.
Two were admitted to Reid in good condition. Twelve were treated and released. As of 12:15 p.m., four of the injured passengers were still being processed by the hospital.
"I believe the expectation is they will be treated and released," Price said.
Price said it was fortunate the injured were brought into the hospital during a shift change in the emergency room. Staff from the earlier shift were still at the hospital and able to help with the influx of patients.
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The bus was en route to New York City, according to a sign on the bus visible in a photo released by the sheriff's department. It came to rest in the grassy area south of the eastbound lanes. A tow truck righted the bus to remove it from the scene by around 10 a.m.
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Denver Water, Colorado's oldest and largest water utility, promotes the efficient use of water to 1.3 million people in the city and surrounding suburbs, but that job hasn't always been easy.
The utility, a semi-government entity, relies on its Information Technology Division to identify and implement the appropriate applications and technology infrastructure to meet the utility's business needs. Until recently, supporting the infrastructure and monitoring applications was a challenge. A deluge of machine data from logs and databases often overwhelmed IT administrators, hampering efforts to pinpoint problems when users notified the help desk. IT officials wanted to adopt a more proactive approach where administrators could solve application and system problems long before they impacted the users of these IT resources.
With sensors and advanced analytics tied together within a cloud infrastructure, the city is looking to cut downtown power use by 10 to 25 percent. Read more.
The city gets the public on board with programs using smart meters and analytics to improve water and power use. Read more.
"We need to know before the user knows that something is wrong," said Henri van den Bulk, an enterprise architect with Denver Water. The IT team grappled with how they could move to a more predictive approach. Classical monitoring tools required an investment in more IT infrastructure, and the division had limited resources in terms of budget and people.
The division settled on Splunk software, which ingests large volumes of machine data and provides the analytics to make sense of the data in order to pinpoint problems. Splunk Enterprise collects, indexes and harnesses machine data generated by applications, servers and devices, whether they are physical, virtual or in the cloud. Splunk also troubleshoots application problems and investigates security incidents rapidly, helping organizations avoid service degradation or outages.
"I told people this is [like] a Google for our IT machine data," van den Bulk said, describing how the software lets the IT staff search for problems, correlate data from different events, and predictively look at data and trends. For instance, they can use the analytical software to study trends in certain application and system errors, such as whether they are occurring during certain time periods or when there are a lot of workloads in the system. The division may not be dealing with petabytes of data, but even 100 gigabytes a day is a lot to consume.
Not long ago, van den Bulk turned one of the application teams loose with Splunk, saying: "Here's your data, try to figure out how you want to use it." They became creative in mining the data and found a problem where users were having application issues but had never logged it in or called the help desk.
And they went a step further, after realizing that they didn't know if customers were using the features they built into applications. Using Splunk analytics they were able to determine the core sets of features the users were applying and those that were being ignored. Now, when the team is in the planning stage they can focus on how the users are actually using applications instead of building features that go untouched, van den Bulk said.
The IT division has a blend of applications that need to be monitored and maintained, including asset management, customer information, geospatial, mobile and work management applications. The team has begun to integrate all of the systems so admins can get a transactional view of what's happening with applications via Splunk. A work order generated for a technician in the field to service a water meter at a customer location goes through an elaborate process in several systems. The order might have been generated with geospatial data and passed to the asset management system and then to the work management system, which delivers the order to the technician in the truck. Splunk is being used to monitor this workflow from end-to-end, van den Bulk said. In most cases, business users are not aware if things are not working because IT administrators receive alerts and proactively start managing the systems.
Splunk works with a concept called forwarders, which are lightweight pieces of code optimized to reduce the impact on host servers. They grab machine data and forward it to indexers, where the bulk of the work happens. This is where administrators can run analysis, queries and graphing. This is different from applying software agents to machines, which is a more heavy-handed approach, van den Bulk said. Splunk is more lightweight with some sophisticated capabilities to reduce overhead.
Now that the IT team has shown how large data sets can be collected, aggregated and analyzed, Denver Water officials are exploring how Splunk and other analytic tools can be applied to manage power and water consumption, an important resource to track since Colorado has experienced periods of drought. Over the next five years there will be a convergence of machine data and business data, van den Bulk said. "Machine data tells you what is going on; business data provides the context of what is going on," he said.
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It is going to be tough to top Championship Sunday.
The Patriots advanced to the Super Bowl by squeaking past the Ravens 23-20 thanks to a dropped pass in the end zone and a missed field goal by Billy Cundiff. It was a tight game that was thrilling right down to the last moment. You don't usually get two of those in the same Sunday.
We did this year. The Giants and 49ers played one of the better defensive football games you'll ever see that went all the way to overtime. That's when 49ers punt returner Kyle Williams botched a second punt, handing the ball to the Giants deep in 49ers territory and leading to a game-winning field goal by Lawrence Tynes. The 20-17 win was even better than the game that preceded it, making for as memorable a day of football as the playoffs have ever seen.
Can the Super Bowl be any better?
It just might. This isn't the first time we've seen the Patriots and the Giants square off in a Super Bowl and the last time was one of the better editions of the game in history. You probably recall the particulars, but you're going to hear a lot more about them in the two weeks to come so we'll kick things off with a short primer.
The Pats were going for an undefeated season, their offense was being compared to the best of all time and the Giants were riding a hot streak that took them from total underdogs to the Super Bowl. The reason they made it to the big stage was their defense, a unit that harassed every quarterback it met, and set up Eli Manning to play big in the biggest moments of each game. The defense made Tom Brady's life miserable, but the Pats were still in position to win when Manning found David Tyree for a catch deep down the field that Tyree made by pinning the ball to his helmet. Eli found Plaxico Burress a few plays later and that was that.
It's a different year, but things are looking fairly similar. The Patriots have a high-octane offense, although it is probably a bit troubling to Bill Belichick that the Ravens were able to slow them down on Sunday. The Giants defense is performing at a very high level after struggling for most of the season and they have the kind of pass rush that can make anyone uncomfortable.
But they also have a very different Manning. He didn't play all that well for most of Sunday, but he made enough plays to put his team in position to take advantage of Williams' terrible mistakes. For the entire season, Manning has been nearly flawless and he carried the Giants to the point that the defense finally woke up and put them in position to make it to Indianapolis. He's clearly elite and a second Super Bowl ring would put him among the greatest in history.
Brady will have something to say about that, of course, and a fourth ring for the Patriots quarterback would add to his argument for greatest ever status. Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana are the only other quarterbacks to win four Super Bowls and Brady's career numbers stand up well with them and any other contender for the top of the list.
There are other storylines, of course. Bill Belichick vs. Tom Coughlin is a dream coaching matchup and you've got the breakout seasons of Rob Gronkowski and Victor Cruz coming to a head. Can the Patriots defense hold up against the Giants receivers? Can the Giants pass rush get to Brady before he makes big plays down the field? Does lightning strike twice?
We'll leave you with one last note. In the regular season preceding Super Bowl 42, the Giants lost 38-35 to the Patriots on their home field. That tight loss was seen as a springboard to their eventual title.
This regular season, the Patriots lost 24-20 to the Giants in Foxborough. Based on history, that sets them up well for Super Bowl Sunday and it sets us up for another great day of football.


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Mothers Driving Experience from Memphis lined up participants for old-school grudge matches all afternoon
The Memphis stop of Power Tour 2013 marked the first of three Mothers Driving Experiences, with participants lining up against eachother in grudge matches all afternoon. The well-prepped track couldn't make up for high temps and street tires, so times were a little high, but there were a handful of 11-seconds cars, and one Charger that ran a 10.5. Mothers will also sponsor autocross in Birmingham and drag racing at our final stop in Concord, North Carolina.
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|What does it take to change a species? New research details how people putting out birdfeeders may have influenced the evolution of a species of songbirds. Writing in the journal Current Biology, researchers describe how one species of European songbird, the blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), has been split into two reproductively isolated groups in fewer than 30 generations. One group migrates to the southwest, the other to the northwest, overwintering in either Spain or the United Kingdom. The researchers found that the northwestern-migrating birds, which take advantage of birdfeeders in the UK, had developed rounder wings and longer, narrower bills than the southwestern birds. We'll find out more.


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There's a famous phenomenon in copyright known as the orphan works problem. It refers to the situation in which the copyright owner of a given work cannot be found. This effectively prevents others from using such a work as part of a new project. For example, if you want to make a movie based on a novel, you must first get permission from the novel's copyright holder. But if the novel is an orphan work, then you can't even find the copyright holder. Technically speaking, you could proceed without permission — but you would do so at your own risk. The copyright owner could emerge at any time and demand penalties. You might end up having to pay damages; worse, you might have to abandon or censor your derivative work, no matter how much effort you'd put into it.
Related to the problem of orphan works is another problem, much more serious, yet much less discussed. I call it the ghost works problem. Ghost works are all the works that never get made in the first place, or are made but not released, because copyright concerns prevent them either from being started or from being distributed. Every project that dares not base itself on an orphan work becomes a ghost work, but there are many more ghost works beyond that. Indeed, it would be fair to say that today most works are ghost works. That is, most works either don't exist or are not accessible, because copyright obstructs them. Whenever you walk into a bookstore, survey the shelves around you and imagine them to be 90% empty, for in a sense they are.
That might sound surprising. After all, the shelves look full, don't they? To see why they are not, let's start with an inverse example: a classic work that (fortunately) isn't a ghost work, but easily could have been, had its authors lived under the modern copyright regime.
In April 2007, the singer Max Ziff and I gave a concert at the Berkeley Piano Club, in Berkeley, California. We performed one of the great works of nineteenth-century German song: Die Schöne Müllerin, Franz Schubert's musical setting of twenty poems by Wilhelm Müller. Müller and Schubert were not a team, though. In fact, when Müller wrote the poems, around 1820, it was with the intention that an entirely different composer, Ludwig Berger, would set them to music, which Berger did. Müller and Schubert never met, and Müller apparently never even knew that Schubert too had set his poems to music.
Not that Schubert was trying to hide anything from Müller. It was simply that, at the time, there was no cultural expectation that one must ask permission before making a derivative work from someone else's original work. Müller's poems, having been published, were now considered part of the common culture, and if composers wanted to write songs based on them, they were free to do so. To our eternal benefit, Franz Schubert had this freedom: Die Schöne Müllerin is a truly inspired piece of music, one that has influenced generations of singers and composers.
Our concert thus depended on the public domain in two ways. One way is obvious: Die Schöne Müllerin is, legally, in the public domain today, so we are free to perform it without arranging royalty payments to anyone. But there is a deeper dependency, too: this music would not exist in the first place had there not been a healthy public domain at the time the poems were written.
Imagine if Müller and Schubert had lived in the present day, instead of the early nineteenth century. Müller writes his poems, intending for Ludwig Berger to set them to music; Berger does so. Then a mostly unknown composer, Franz Schubert, appears out of the blue, wishing to set them to his own music and asking Müller's permission. But Müller can't give permission — he doesn't own the copyright anymore, his publisher does, and the publisher, not wishing to encourage competition with the Berger settings, is inclined to refuse. Perhaps Schubert could pay for the privilege? But no, he doesn't have those kinds of resources. Or perhaps he'd like to negotiate a royalty-sharing arrangement? But Schubert has no lawyer, and no head for haggling over contracts. He's a composer, not a negotiator. Well then, he is free to set the songs for his private enjoyment (that's "fair use") but he certainly may not distribute them!
In all likelihood, things wouldn't even get that far, of course. Instead, Schubert would know in advance that he cannot always follow where his inspiration leads, when where it leads him is into someone else's copyrighted territory. Instead, he would just accept that the work of most of his contemporaries is out-of-bounds for someone like him, an unknown with no resources. And so we would not have Die Schöne Müllerin... nor Die Winterreise (another of his song cycles), nor many of his individual songs, which often set the work of living poets.
And that's just one composer.
This exercise in imagination highlights one of the most insidious aspects of the ghost works problem: that it cannot be easily measured, no matter how great its magnitude. We can point to an existing album, a movie, or a book and say "There! There is that thing, that physical object, whose existence is beyond doubt." But how can we point to something that is not there? How can we know what we do not have? We can only measure the loss indirectly; nevertheless, there is compelling anecdotal evidence that it is large.
Some of this evidence comes from the world of free and open source software, where it is traditional not only that the software itself be released under open copyright licenses, but that the software's documentation be similarly licensed. This means, among other things, that derivative works such as translations can be made by anyone. In theory, this could be done without permission or cooperation from the original authors, but in practice translations are almost always authorized and approved, because cooperation is easier than territorialism.
The result of this freedom is that the documentation for virtually all major open source programs, and many minor ones, has been translated into several languages, usually enough languages to cover the vast majority of the software's user base. Furthermore, the translations are usually kept up-to-date as the software and its documentation evolve.
This phenomenon is not limited to technical documentation. In late 2005, I published a book entitled Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project. The publisher, O'Reilly Media, although marketing the book through traditional trade and bookstore channels, agreed to release it under a permissive (open source) copyright. Accordingly, I put the book's full text online at producingoss.com — and pretty soon people showed up to translate it! I did nothing to seek out translators, except release the book under a liberal license; only after the first translators showed up did I put a notice on the front page soliciting more. Now we've got a German translation under very active development (with two separate translators who only met through cooperating on this project), a Hebrew one happening somewhat more slowly, and some recent arrivals looking at doing a Chinese version.
This is happening with a book that has, let's face it, a fairly limited audience. Not only that, it's the second time this has happened to a book I've published (see cvsbook.red-bean.com). Once could be coincidence; twice is starting to look like a pattern. And I'm only using my own books as examples because they're the first thing that came to mind. There are hundreds of open source projects that could tell a similar tale about their documentation. The lesson to draw here is that, were it not for copyright restrictions, most books in the world would be translated into several languages. After all, the better the book, the more some multilingual reader will be motivated to translate it. The translation doesn't have to be perfect, because there will also be people who show up to edit it. These projects tend to self-organize in exactly the same way that open source software projects do.
But under the current copyright regime, if you want to release a translation of a book that was published under traditional restrictions, you don't just sit down and start translating. Instead, you start by negotiating the right to translate — a process which is completely unrelated to actually translating, and is also daunting, time-consuming, and likely to fail. It's hard to imagine a more potent gumption sink than "rights negotiation". The mere prospect is enough to shut down most translation projects — which is why I look at those bookstore shelves and see them as mostly empty.
For those who leave rights negotiation for later, the penalties can be severe indeed. Recently, I opened the April 2nd, 2007 issue of the New Yorker to see the following notice from David Denby in the "Critic's Notebook" section:
In 1977, Charles Burnett, a U.C.L.A. film student, made his thesis film, "Killer of Sheep," a fictional portrait of life in the Watts section of Los Angeles, for less than ten thousand dollars. The film has attained legendary status, but it has never been released theatrically before, because of music-rights issues. Burnett used many kinds of African-American music on the soundtrack, and the movie itself has the bedraggled eloquence of an old blues record. […]
In other words, for thirty years — long past the time when its topics were contemporary, long past when it could have had the most impact and been most appreciated — a great film has languished unseen. For thirty years, Killer of Sheep was a ghost work. And to what end? Movie licensing royalties are probably not why those musicians recorded that music, and are in general not a significant part of most musicians' incomes. That a few musicians occasionally hit the royalties jackpot is indisputable, but does that skewed and random result really justify the censoring of a film for three decades?
Now sensitized to the presence of ghost works all around us, I usually don't need to go out of my way to find examples. Instead, I can depend on them finding me with some regularity. Such was the case here. While writing this article, I opened my New Yorker and saw the above piece. I could have chosen from several other examples that crossed my path in the last week — and those are just the stories that someone bothers to tell. This fact alone is a clue to the size of the problem.
If one person can gather a few examples of ghost works without even trying, many people working together can really start to catalogue the problem. Maybe after we have enough we'll start to notice some patterns. So please keep your eyes open, and if a ghost work crosses your path, let us know. Our contact page is http://www.questioncopright.org/contact.
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Penalty for unauthorised derivation
Submitted by Crosbie Fitch (not verified) on
Remind me what the penalty is these days for an author simply to create an unauthorised derivative work?
Does the author still get prosecuted if, beyond their control, some well meaning friend of theirs anonymously leaked their derivative work into a file-sharing network?
And tell me if the law would confiscate any funds from the author if they obtained funding for new works from fans of their unauthorised derivatives?
Somehow I think copyright is a wet paper bag on so many levels.
The problem is that so many people have been hypnotised to believe it's an electrified steel cage.
Time to question copyright...
Do you think that's air you're breathing now?
Submitted by Crosbie Fitch on
"Penalty for unauthorised derivation" is actually my post. I assumed I was already logged in.
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THe laws of the world
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
THe laws of the world continue to baffle each and everyone of us. I am sure there are many works out there that are now 'residing at the bottom of the ocean' so to speak because the author is either dead or unknown. As a firm believer in art opportunity I believe all areas of art without someone to claim, should be made open to the public domain.
It is a shame to tihnk that
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
It is a shame to tihnk that many great works are been witheld due to questionable copyright laws. If a writer or artist cannot be found to claim responsability then it should be made open to all.
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Re: Penalty for unauthorised derivation
Submitted by kfogel on
The exact penalties in your specific scenarios would probably depend on details of precisely how and in what order things happened. But penalties for the (derivative) author aren't the only bad outcome here. Remember that the Internet service providers and other intermediaries involved would receive (and have to comply with) takedown notices, other people caught in the net might have to waste time answering a lawyer's questions, etc.
I wish current copyright law were a wet paper bag, but in fact it's quite powerful, when applied by people who know it. There's nothing wet-paper-baggish about receiving a letter saying you've just been sued.
As dangerous as crossing a main road
Submitted by Crosbie Fitch on
Let's put it this way, copyright is as effective as a wet paper bag in terms of keeping published IP under the exclusive control of the copyright holder.
It's only dangerous in the same way that crossing a main road wearing a walkman with your eyes shut is dangerous, i.e. if you keep your wits about you, eyes and ears open, it's pretty harmless.
We still haven't established whether there are actually any penalties for creating an unauthorised derivative (prior to its 'accidental' unauthorised publication), let alone what the penalties would be, and what evidence an author provides to make themselves culpable (apart from tolerating people identifying them as the author).
Check this out for an example of the repercussions of creating an unauthorised derivative:
Future creators of 'unauthorised derivatives' could adjust their strategies if they prefer to avoid the promotional benefits of litigation directed against them.
Re: As dangerous as crossing a main road
Submitted by kfogel on
A world in which artists have to do their work surreptitiously, or pretend that the release of their work was "accidental", is not exactly a compelling goal!
A good test of a law is whether it generates counterintuitive behaviors. If artists must regularly try to avoid association with the distribution of their works, then something's wrong.
There is no penalty for creating a private but unauthorized derivative work. There are penalties for distributing it, and if it can be shown that you could reasonably have expected it to be distributed, or that you did not take sufficient precautions to prevent it from being distributed, then of course there's a case against you, under current law.
Be careful of pointing to things like the Grey Album as examples of how takedown doesn't work. There's a selection bias there: by definition, you haven't heard of the works where the takedown effort was swift and successful. Part of the point of collecting stories of ghost works is to bring attention to things that never got the kind of coverage the Grey Album did. They're the problem, and I'm pretty sure there are a lot more of them than there are Grey Albums.
Pragmatic strategies
Submitted by Crosbie Fitch on
Until copyright's abolition, we have to deal with the world as it exists today, which includes its sociopathic legislation.
Pragmatic strategies may well be far from compelling, but with the assistance of the Internet (viral marketing/promotion, etc.) they could be refined until they become attractive and rewarding.
I encourage and welcome refinements.
And as you say, if people consequently engage in counterintuitive behaviours, then it can only help to demonstrate that copyright law is fundamentally unethical.
No one talks about this, and they should!
Submitted by jessica.ferris on
Thank you for this!
I'm a theater performer, and I write and choreograph my own work. I get artistic satisfaction from this process, but I used to get satisfaction from what I called "theater collage." I would create shows using excerpts from previously existing texts (encyclopedias, obscure novels, treatises on the nature of beauty, etc.)
Once I realized the legal headache that was in store for me if I ever wanted to show my work to a wider audience, I gave up the project I'd been working on for a couple of years. It's a shame, really, because I chose those excerpts precisely because I was a fan: they moved me, excited me, and provoked me. I would have liked to have given them greater attention through my work.
Even now that I've turned to autobiographical source material, I often hear music which I would love to incorporate into my shows. But I don't want to let myself get too attached to a piece of music in the development of my work, just in case I won't be able to get permission to use it come performance time.
This means that I can't respond or relate to the music in a nuanced or complex way.
It's so frustrating, and so backward.
Good art inspires me to respond with my own art, and I'm constantly having to squash this inspiration.
Another example: obstructed release of TV show on DVD
Submitted by kfogel on
Jessica Ferris sent in another example by email:
What's happened here is pretty alarming: for years, the DVD release of the old TV show "WKRP in Cincinnati" has been delayed by rights negotiation issues — not the rights to the TV show itself, but to the music played in the background on the show, which was mostly contemporary pop music of the 1970s and early 80s.
Now the issue has been resolved, in an ugly way: the DVDs will be released with generic (but unrestricted) elevator music replacing the actual pop songs that were heard when the TV show aired live. Much of the flavor of the original show will therefore be lost. What appears on the DVD will not be the original, nor will it be a derivative work in any meaningful sense, because these mutilations are being performed for legal reasons rather than artistic reasons.
"WKRP in Cincinnati" has become a ghost work.
Thanks, Jessica, for sending that one in.
Volunteer Translations Become Ghost Works in Poland
Submitted by kfogel on
Question: how many ghost works have the Polish police created by cracking down on volunteer translations (in this case, for subtitling movies)? Here's the story:
We'll never know the answer, of course, but considering how many foreign movies are shown in Poland (a lot), that probably means many potential translations will now be suppressed or never started in the first place.
What a great social policy: let's take people who are willing to devote their own time and energy to making cultural artifacts more accessible to everyone, and threaten them with jail. Brilliant!
Orphan Works
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Why is Burnett's student film an example of why copyright should be abolished?
If we shortened copyright terms back to their original lengths it would be able to be distributed today.
If we made exceptions for student works that were shown for free, the problem would be solved.
If music copyrights had similar standardized royalty terms for use in film as they do for use on radio, problem solved. He uses what he wants, pays a percentage of gross receipts to ASCAP or another such organization, and he's good.
If the film was that great, an altruistic soul or money-motivated distributor could have thrown some resources at dealing with the music clearance issues. And its scarcity may be one of the driving factors of its legendary status. If we could all see it, it might be that 99.9% of those who saw it would walk away understanding why no one ponied up the resources to get it released sooner.
And last, but not least, Burnett could have allied himself with some blues musicians to generate original music for the film or licensed stock music at reasonable prices. Not being able to use the exact music you want is only one of the many compromises an artist may have to make to get his work to market, and a lot of them are not related to copyright.
As for book translations... You wanted a more permissive license, you got it. Others might not. Translation is an art (the NEA actually gives out grants for it) and reading a bad translation can be as painful as listening to a 6-year-old play the saxophone. Honestly, as an author, I'd want to screen who was translating my work, and I'd rather have no translation than a bad translation out there.
Re: Orphan works
Submitted by kfogel on
That last paragraph is exactly the kind of thinking I'm arguing against. Why should the author screen out any translators at all? Why not let the readers do that? (I mean readers as supported by reviewers, endorsers, word-of-mouth, and all the other filtering networks already out there, of course.)
Maybe as an author you'd rather have no translation than a bad translation, but some readers will disagree, and the question is, why do you get to decide rather than them? Maybe you'll have different ideas of what's a good and bad translation. When the author (or, more often, the publisher) gets exclusive right to decide who translates, we have a monopoly situation, and monopolies typically do not lead to higher quality.
You write: "As for book translations... You wanted a more permissive license, you got it. Others might not."
The point is that when person A prefers a permissive license, that doesn't take away person B's ability to do anything; whereas when person B prefers a restrictive license (and gets it), that takes away person A's ability to do things. The two situations are not symmetrical; it's not an "I like asparagus but others might not" thing. If you don't like asparagus, you don't have to eat it; but why is it that if you don't like asparagus, I can't eat it either?
When you say that "others might not" prefer a more permissive license, you're talking about what the copyright holders of those works prefer, but remember that I still prefer a more permissive license for those works too, and what I'm contesting is the idea that the copyright holders' desires should automatically trump mine just because they were in some way involved in the works' creation.
Re: Orphan Works
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
You make the comment that this person "could have allied himself with some blues musicians to generate original music for the film or licensed stock music at reasonable prices".
The problem with this is two-fold: first, there's a certain power to using the music that the current (or previous) culture is steeped in. It creates a sense of placement, and reinforces identity with those who listen to that kind of thing. It also introduces people who aren't part of the culture to a different culture--due to how and where they were raised, or even due to being born into a different decade. You don't get that if you use stock music.
Second, There's also an affordability issue. Burnett probably didn't have the resources to ally himself with blues musicians, or to purchase stock music. Getting such resources would be doubly difficult if the film were truly mediocre, or even just *perceived* to be mediocre by the current producers.
Having said that, your objection that the movie may be mediocre rings hollow: if it were all that mediocre, why would anyone give a darn about a college kid making a stupid movie that no one is going to see? But if it's not mediocre--and the best people to decide that are *audiences*, and *not* producers--then why should it be held back due to stupid royalty concerns?
More info here
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
The Copyright Office has completed its study of problems related to "orphan works"—copyrighted works whose owners may be impossible to identify and locate. As requested by Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Patrick Leahy, the Office submitted its Report on Orphan Works to the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 31, 2006. The Report is also available for download on this page in two versions, the Full Report with Appendices, and the Main Text (no appendices).
More info here : http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/
More info here
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Thank you!
Submitted by netpromoguy (not verified) on
Thank you!
more examples
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
MTV's animated show Daria is another example of this: You can't buy most of the show on DVD because of the use of background music. Most of it's 90s alternative, which definitely adds to the atmosphere but it is under copyright from enough companies that MTV just never released it. A few episodes were released with generic music, which was as bad as you would expect.
So now it's on youtube, but has been taken down by Viacom a few times already.
If only Viacom would realize that I would buy it if I could, but I can't, so this is the next best option!
Oy, infuriating.
Re: Seen Any Ghost Works Lately?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
My son's choir director was interested in taking an unpublished work to a district music contest. When he contacted the district people, they sent him a mountain of paperwork to complete in order to receive permission from the publisher in order to perform the work. The problem was, there was no publisher. He, in turn, directly contacted the group who created the piece asking for their permission.
They agreed to allow him to perform the piece, in return asking only for a copy of the district performance for the group's enjoyment. I found that to be very refreshing and genuine of the artists.
However, it still remains to be seen whether or not the district will allow him to perform the piece considering the fact that their is no official publisher agreement on file. Sad...


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Only about 12 to 15 people lined up outside the Silicon Valley store by 6 a.m., with two hours to wait until the store was set to open. The lines had vanished 20 minutes after the store opened.
With past launches, including for the most of the new iPhone releases and the iPad, for example, lines were usually snaking around the block by then, with many eager customers even camping out overnight to get their hands on Apple's latest gadget.
One customer in Los Gatos who only wanted to be identified as Chris put it this way: It's the iPad mini with a "mini launch."
Phil Gluckman of Saratoga said he expected this low turnout. "They don't have a cellular version. I don't think that's exciting." As for why he showed up at the crack of dawn: "I'm here for my wife. I'm a nice guy."
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In Europe, the lines were shorter, too.
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"I know she's a good mom, and she's there for her children. So I'm kind of surprised its shocking to know the accusations you know," said Sedwin Williams, her father.
Williams also has a 3-year-old child, whose father, Omar Rodrick Holness, was also in court. He is not the father of the older child, but he is married to Williams and lives with her.
"He's also being charged with failure to protect, but there's no real allegations in the petition against him but with all that's going on and all the media being here there was a lot of pressure," said his attorney Linda Singer.
The judge asked the grandfather get have a home study in order to get custody of his grandchildren. Both Williams and Holnes will get supervised visits.
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Consulting Analyst, MEDITECH Report Writer, Any US City
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Create Your Future.
At Huron, we believe there's a better way to achieve the type of change that delivers lasting success. It takes a steady focus and genuine collaboration of our teams to support our clients. It takes true partnership, from day one.
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Huron Consulting Group stands out as one of the fastest growing financial and operational consulting firms in the industry serving clients in the healthcare, education, legal, life sciences, and business sectors. Huron helps clients improve performance, transform the enterprise, reduce costs, leverage technology, process and review large amounts of complex data, address regulatory issues, recover from distress and stimulate growth. Our professionals employ their expertise in finance, operations, strategy and technology to provide our clients with specialized analyses and customized solutions that are tailored to address each client's particular challenges and opportunities to deliver sustainable and measurable results.
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The healthcare industry is rapidly evolving. Healthcare leaders—from large multi-hospital systems and academic medical centers to smaller community hospitals and physician practices—are addressing ways to achieve transformation of the healthcare enterprise. Huron Consulting Group's Healthcare practice partners with hospitals and health systems nationwide to achieve their goals and mission, specializing in the implementation of an integrated suite of solutions that improves financial and operational performance while increasing physician, patient, and employee engagement and loyalty across the hospital enterprise. Huron Healthcare has dedicated its legacy to delivering sustainable and scalable healthcare transformation solutions in enterprise strategy, clinical transformation, revenue optimization, cost management and technology.
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Prior to launching his exploratory committee, though, Winslow's most noteworthy political move was becoming perhaps the only pol in American history to hold a photo op while playing beer pong. The "Beer Pong and Politics Networking and Fundraiser," held at Boston's Battery Park Bar and Lounge in September 2011, gave attendees a chance to mingle with their representative while partaking in the national sport of 18–24-year-olds. As Winslow told the Medfield Press, "The idea is to encourage participation by people not typically involved in politics. It's as much a 'friend-raiser' as a 'fund-raiser'"—hence the low ticket price ($25, open-bar included). Per the Press, Winslow played with water in his cups instead of beer.