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Home :: Copyright Law 22 Jul 2018 When Public Laws Use Private Standards Copyright Law 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 ... posted at: 23:12 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/publicstandard.html 26 Jun 2014 What the Aereo decision actually said Copyright Law 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 ... posted at: 22:02 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/aereo.html 19 Apr 2014 The Authors Guild Enters a Parallel Reality Copyright Law 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 ... posted at: 09:44 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/agaltrel.html 17 Nov 2013 Judge to Authors Guild: it's fair use. You lose. Copyright Law 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 ... posted at: 14:42 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/agloses.html 01 Jul 2013 Google Books case part 4,523: decide fair use first Copyright Law 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 ... posted at: 13:33 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/noclass.html

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