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Eldred Transcript, Bookmobile Experience

Posted by michael on from the horse's-mouth dept.

Patrick writes "The transcript of the oral arguments in Eldred v. Ashcroft is now online." Such exciting lines as: "CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST: Well, but you want more than that. You want the right to copy verbatim other people's books, don't you?". See previous stories about the oral arguments and Lessig's thoughts on them. chromatic writes "The O'Reilly Network has just published Richard Koman's Lessons from the Internet Bookmobile about his travels with Brewster Kahle to Eldred v. Ashcroft. I particularly like how he describes the universal positive reception."

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  1. yep by cr@ckwhore · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ahhh.. the bookmobile... isn't that the one where the driver goes around town in a rainbow colored jumpsuit, screwing chickens?

    I think we've got 'em Barbrady.

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  2. Already unlimited by PaddyM · · Score: 4, Funny

    They forgot an EASY target. "Life of the author". So if you copyright some book, and then you cryogenically freeze yourself, you get the coypright for as long as you are alive, right? So then your children get to inherit that money for all time, while you're alive in stasis.

  3. Re:Copyright past author's death? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, that would make sence... and congress dosen't like that.

  4. Re:This is a great recource... by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn im lucky that crusing around on slashdot is homework.

    That's funny, because Slashdot probably drops my productivity at work by at least 10%...

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  5. impressions by bigdavex · · Score: 3, Funny
    It looked like the Justices were finding flaws in Lessig arguments, but then they seemed to be chewing up Olson.

    The frankness of these comments was great.


    JUSTICE BREYER: Why -- I mean, I think you have a point on this equity principle. I wonder, is there any review there? That is, suppose you have a statute, as this one arguably is, where 99.9 percent, many billions of dollars of benefits, are going to the existing holders of copyright on grounds of equity, and the effect of the statute in eliciting new works is near zero. I mean, that would seem -- where this equity idea is the camel and the production idea is the gnat, [*45] and is there any -- can we say something like that, or does Congress have total leeway in respect to --

    GENERAL OLSON: Well, it --

    JUSTICE BREYER: -- who they want to give the money to, basically?

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  6. Re:This is a great recource... by Namtar · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd be greatful if I had 10% left

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