Kahle vs Ashcroft: Copyright Battle Continues

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Kahle vs Ashcroft: Copyright Battle Continues

Posted by michael on Tuesday March 23, 2004 @07:57AM from the ding-ding dept.

Robotech_Master writes "People may remember librarian Brewster Kahle as the man behind Archive.org's Wayback Machine and the Internet Bookmobile. He was one of the big supporters of Eldred in the Eldred vs Ashcroft case. Well, he's at it again. A new lawsuit, Kahle vs Ashcroft, has been filed as of March 22nd. Lawrence Lessig comments on this case in his blog." Question number 3 of the FAQ explains that while the Eldred case challenged the length of copyright expansion, this case challenges the breadth.

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Dear Mr. Ashcroft by spun · 2004-03-23 08:05 · Score: 5, Funny

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1. Re:Dear Mr. Ashcroft by sckeener · 2004-03-23 08:42 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Let us not forget...Ashcroft lost an election to a dead guy.
  
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  "Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain
Re:Summary: burden authors to make his life easier by chromatic · 2004-03-23 08:16 · Score: 5, Funny

A lot of those authors are easy to track down. The problem is in getting 70+ year old corpses to sign legal forms.

Any law that requires raising the dead for the public good is bad law.

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Re:I guess my age shows ..... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 08:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Pfft.

I remember Brewster from when he "inherited" thirty million dollars and had to spend it all in one month to get his real inheritance of 300 million dollars.
Re:Hasn't this already been settled? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 08:32 · Score: 2, Funny

If you can't legally buy it, you should be able to freely trade it around.
That's right! Where is my free weed?
Re:Another Possible Problem by SoTuA · 2004-03-23 08:41 · Score: 2, Funny

Now, if the US enters into a treaty that is in direct opposition to the Constitution, which document wins? I have no idea if this issue in Constitutional law has ever been addressed.
It would serve as a legally binding way of proving the country's congress is a band of drooling morons, as, in most civilized countries, such treaties signed by the executive must be approved by congress. (like, for example, Free Trade Agreements)