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22 Jul 2018
Carl Malamud's Public.Resource.Org
has for over 20 years been putting public documents online so they are easier
to find and use. He's been quite successful in getting documents online that were formerly
available only on paper, or only by paid subscription.
One project involves putting US laws online. In a lot of cases, laws
refer to standards maintained by private organizations. For example,
most state building codes require new construction to comply with the
National Electrical Code published by the private National Fire
Protection Association. There are thousands of standards used in laws
around the US, and in many cases the only way to find out what the standard
says, and hence what the law says, is to buy a copy from the publisher, or
at best to go to a library and read a paper copy.
PRO has been scanning and publishing standards on the theory that in the US, laws
are not copyrighted, so if a standard's part of the law, it's not copyrighted either.
Unsurprisingly, the standards publishers disagreed.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/publicstandard.html
26 Jun 2014
Aereo is (was?) a system with a large array of tiny TV antennas,
each of which is assigned to a customer who can pick a channel
and record it on a remote DVR system and/or stream it through
the Internet. TV networks claimed they had to pay for retransmission
like a CATV system.
The Supreme Court
decided
yesterday in the networks' favor.
I'm not a constitutional law scholar, but I play one on the net, so ...
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/aereo.html
19 Apr 2014
I used to say to our audiences: "It is difficult to
get a man to understand something when his salary depends
on his not understanding it!"
- Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And how I Got Licked, (1935), p. 109
In November, the Authors Guild suffered a
crushing defeat
in their long running suit against Google's book scanning project,
with a broad decision agreeing with Google that the scans are protected by fair use.
Not surprisingly, they're making a last ditch appeal to the Second Circuit.
While I see no realistic chance of them winning, not least because Judge Chin
who wrote that decision is now a well respected member of the court to which they
are appealing,
it's always interesting to see how they think they'll get the court to reverse.
Having read
their brief,
all I can say is, it's really strange.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/agaltrel.html
17 Nov 2013
Today the long running Authors Guild vs. Google case ended for
all practical purposes.
Judge Denny Chin, who has been patiently overseeing the case for
nearly a decade, issued a short, clear
summary
judgement ruling in which he agreed that the Guild had no credible
arguments and granted Google's motion to dismiss.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/agloses.html
01 Jul 2013
The endless lawsuit by the Authors Guild (which purports
to represent authors, no longer including me), against
Google moved another small step toward completion today.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/noclass.html
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