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Eldred Transcript, Bookmobile Experience
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."
I believe that he is only saying that he inserted the names of the justices from memory.
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One of the best sites to keep yourself informed. This gives you the good and the bad.
Sites like the EFF, ACLU, RIAA and MPAA are good for getting differnt view points, but their information will always be slanted in one way or another. That's what lobying groups do.
In arguments it's good to know both sides of an issue but it's even better to look at the issue itself somtimes.
What if you were an inventor and had a great idea for a Gizzmo-matic. This will also make tons of money. Now, you can go ahead, and make it, copywright it, and either manufacture it or liscense it. And lets say the Gizzmo-matic makes you 100k/year in proffit for the rest of the copywright term (lets say it expires upon death). If you are 30 years old, and live to be 75, that's a large chunk of money. If you are 74.5, its not so much money. The thinking is with life+X years is that older inventors can still have a reson to create.
... well, if you were creating it for the benefit of society, you wouldn't be copywrighting it anyway. Copywright is supposed to be an incentive to create... not just an incentive for younger people who can reap the rewards of thier creation to create.
Now, I know what you are thinking... why not create it for "the benefit of society"
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Did you take a civics class in high school? This is exactly the purpose of the Supreme Court. This is exactly the purpose of the idea of checks and balances.
The federal government was not set up as a direct democracy. In theory, every branch must follow the Constitution. It's fantastically difficult to amend the Constitution for a reason.
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Putting public domain words into a new format does not suddenly make them copyrightable, nor mean that you own the copyright to it.
IANAL, but WestLaw does exactly that, and there have been court cases supporting them.
Members of the public are not allowed to record the arguments. or even to take notes. Accredited journalists are allowed a bit more leeway, but only Alderson Reporting is allowed to transcribe or record.
Moreover, Alderson gets a short period of exclusivity before the transcripts are posted to the supreme court website. Before this, a copy is deposited in the Supreme Court Library, but readers are not allowed to copy the document. You can purchase transcripts for ~$150 ($2.85/page?), but Alderson demands permission for all excerpting. ("Permission routinely granted for short excerpts.")
I think that the copies extant are probably derived from the appellants copy. I'm not sure whether Alderson plans to sue...
The Audio recording will not be available until late 2003.