Arrested with Car Rental
Guess you get more than you ask for when renting a Car from Avis. I moved from Maryland to Carlsbad, California and it was going to take a while for our cars to be shipped so we rented a car from Avis. The movers were at our new house and so I vacated with our dog and left to get the movers some lunch. To my surprise, I was pulled over under suspicion of car theft. When the officer approached the car he said," Do you know you are driving a stolen vehicle?"Apparently, Avis had reported the vehicle stolen in Arizona when the renter didn't return it. I told him it was a rental and showed him the paperwork. Initially he believed me but then called Avis and no one could confirm or deny that it was no longer stolen. He called for backup(6 squad cars) and then they proceeded to take me and my dog out of the car. Then the whole routine... frisking, handcuffing me and interrogating me for over 2 hours. I felt humiliated... like a common criminal.All this and it happened in my "soon to be, new neighborhood" just blocks from my new house. Great way to get introduced to the neighbors! I kept begging for them to just let me call my husband who was back at the house only a couple blocks away so that he could get the dog and come help straighten this out. After two hours of being scared shittless, they finally let me go. All this and not so much as one apology, one call or one letter from Avis to apologize for my troubles!!!
- Hi Shamnad,Let's look at practice. A TV chaennl either produces its own programs or licenses them from producers. In both cases, the program needs music to be synched to it. Where is the need of licensing visuals? They produce the visuals! That's the way the business works globally and I don't see what's unique to the Indian market.Obviously, compulsory blanket licensing is the future for some of the rights - performance and mechanical - and the European Commission will present a legislative proposal to this effect early next year. So we are going int the right direction here. But where is the need to implicitly extent blanket licensing to ALL the rights? What's then the use of being owner of rights if you cannot exercise them? Collective licensing is the solution to a particular problem - not a Swiss knife solution. The best introduction I could recommend is "Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights" by Dr Mihaly Ficsor (WIPO).And where is the need to address a particular industry (radio in this case) in a legislative document? Just state that blanket licensing can be done only through a Society, that will serve the purpose.The reference to radio broadcasting is irrelevant, frustrating, causes confusion and should be removed. To draft a Copyright Act, it is not enough to be an expert in Copyright law, one must also have an inside, practical knowledge of the business.
- FUCK alvis! he can go to hell