But isn’t that what we’re talking about here? The Japanese government wants people who do paid events to be required to license the IP they are making money from. The “what about amateurs?” thing seems like a red herring to me.

The real distinction is how they are presented to the public.

You cannot copyright “clothing”, the parts that make up a costume, however specific aspects OF a costume can be copyrightable.

Ah yes. There’s an entire industry where people literally find joy in essentially providing free advertising for media companies, in a way that cannot ever take profits away from the sales of merch and media—and corporations just ask, “where is my cut?”, not knowing or caring that this move will just destroy said…

I’m honestly surprised no video game company has set up a cosplay licensing department not just for deals but also to provide official information about characters and such.

This has always been something I debated and ponder on for a long time. A rather grey area as talented artist are allowed to dress up as their favorite iconic characters for a profit; yet talented artist who draw, paint, make 3-D models, fan made movies and/or music video tributes of their favorite characters are not?…

Interesting. I for one was surprised by how many Raptors, or Raptor clones, I found around Beijing.

Automotive design usually sees large exaggerations to get a feel from weight and proportion. Designers are creative; if their creativity lives only in real world proportions some of the better elements they find my never be found. 

For the love of all that’s Jalopnik, what the hell kind of crap coding are you guys up to now? Where I assume a link or post or image is supposed to be, cuz you keep referring to them, is nothing more than a line. That’s it. Nada. Nix. Ney. Nyet. Nien. ...That was in Firefox,

Maybe I need one too then, because I agree with every word of that post.

Right, I don’t see how the copyright holder would have any right to seize the vehicle. I can see having him take down the videos, but not seeing how it would result in the car being seized (couldn’t he take the parts and use it in another project?)

Of course, copyright holders are required to defend their properties

Yeah, it is in desperate need of this type of disambiguation. Here’s hoping the ‘USB4 may be re-branded’ thing is well thought out and consumer-centric, not salespeople and industry engineer driven. The worst are things like “4G LTE” vs “4G” or the USB-3.2 gen 1/2/3 bs.

And this is why I actually prefer mini-USB to micro-USB.

This has been a problem even with USB Type A. We used the same connector since the beginning with USB 1.0 for those that even used USB before 2.0 became the standard. It could be hard to tell if the device supported USB2.0 or was still 1.0. Then with USB3.x it got just as bad. Desktops usually color them blue and some…

That is part of the misconception. 3.2 is not a physical connector. What you are thinking about is USB A, the larger rectangle port that we have been familiar with for years. USB Type A can run at USB2.0, USB3.1 and even USB 3.2. You will often seen USB Type A colored in Blue when it is running at 3.1 and 3.2…

As exciting as it is, I still find USB-C a terribly flawed in that I have no idea what a given USB-C port will support other than USB 2.0. It requires feature symbology to tell me what it supports and even then, it may not convey enough information about what level of feature that is. Sure it might have a DisplayPort…

I initially thought this but with it being spring in the NE there are a ton of cyclists out in the mountains. Just not worth the risk to others and I certainly don’t want to be made an example of. As far as going off the road I have never been worried. I don’t drive faster than I am comfortable with/out-drive my…

You seem to really be keeping track of this shit. For me, it just feels sort of...gross. Like finding a huge lump of dog shit on your shoe and you don’t own any dogs.

Egregious or not, the new A8 is a great car for a long trip like that. The dudes not driving were probably enjoying their naps with the seat massagers on.

You know, I kinda have to disagree - with experienced drivers and much less traffic on the roads, this may very well have been the BEST time to break this record, all things considered.