First Sale
Maria Pallante, the Register of Copyrights (and thus, head of the Copyright Office) was the sole witness in a hearing today with an ambitious title: "The Register's Call for Updates to U.S. Copyright Law." (An archived copy of the hearing is here) Her testimony provides a guide to the sorts of changes she thinks are necessary in the coming years.
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Something we commonly hear when the United States Trade Representative or others are negotiating "trade" agreements is that, to the extent that these agreements mention other areas of law or policy--such as copyright law--they are "consistent" with it. "Who could object," we are asked, "to simply restating what the law already is?"
The first problem with this is that such agreements don't just restate the law--they can freeze it in place. It is politically more difficult for Congress to pass a law if there's an argument (even a wrong one) that doing so would take us out of "compliance" with a trade agreement. If trade negotiators want to freeze US law in place they should explain that is what they are doing and not frame the issue as a technical one without real consequences.
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Location: Center For Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
101 Sherrerd Hall
Princeton, NJ 08540
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101 Sherrerd Hall
Princeton, NJ 08540
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Public Knowledge President Gigi B. Sohn will be speaking at this Princeton event on Thursday, Nov. 8.
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Sponsored by: Center For Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
Public Knowledge President Gigi B. Sohn will be speaking at this Princeton event on Thursday, Nov. 8.
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1, 2012 11:04 pm
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Location: Center For Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
101 Sherrerd Hall
Princeton, NJ 08540
Sponsored by: Center For Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
Public Knowledge President Gigi B. Sohn will be speaking at this Princeton event on Thursday, Nov. 8.
Event Date Start:
Sat, 2012-11-10 16:30 - 18:30
I was able to attend oral arguments this morning at the Supreme Court, which included Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. For some background on the case, see the resources linked at this blog post.
There were three separate theories of section 109's interpretation in the Court today: Kirtsaeng's, made by Josh Rosenkranz; Wiley's, made by Ted Olson, and the U.S. Government's made by Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart. Kirtsaeng's position is that "lawfully made under this title" means "made lawfully," and that to judge what "lawfully" means, we look to the standards of title 17.
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Recordings of the oral arguments should be posted later in the week. In the meantime, if you’re looking for some background on the case, see Jodie's post here, or read on below.
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Two Barriers to Simple Digital Inheritance
Two things create this difficulty. One is the fact that copyright law wasn't originally designed to deal with "born-digital" copies—copies that were sold as digital downloads, and so weren't initially tied to a particular physical object. That leads to problems whenever I want to transfer a copy to someone else—copyright law lets me "distribute" legal copies that I own, but I can't "reproduce" them. Handing over a CD is a distribution.
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Two Barriers to Simple Digital Inheritance
Two things create this difficulty. One is the fact that copyright law wasn't originally designed to deal with "born-digital" copies—copies that were sold as digital downloads, and so weren't initially tied to a particular physical object. That leads to problems whenever I want to transfer a copy to someone else—copyright law lets me "distribute" legal copies that I own, but I can't "reproduce" them. Handing over a CD is a distribution.
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Two Barriers to Simple Digital Inheritance
Two things create this difficulty. One is the fact that copyright law wasn't originally designed to deal with "born-digital" copies—copies that were sold as digital downloads, and so weren't initially tied to a particular physical object. That leads to problems whenever I want to transfer a copy to someone else—copyright law lets me "distribute" legal copies that I own, but I can't "reproduce" them. Handing over a CD is a distribution.
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Contacts:
Demand Progress: David Moon, moon@demandprogress.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Rebecca Jeschke, rebecca@eff.org
Engage: Patrick Ruffini, patrick@engagedc.com
Fight for the Future: Douglas Schatz, pdschatz@gmail.com
Public Knowledge: Sherwin Siy, ssiy@publicknowledge.org
Over 100,000 Sign Petition Calling for Protection of Ownership Rights
Citizens rally as oral argument nears in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley case in U.S. Supreme Court
preservesthe openness of the Internet and the public's access to knowledge, promotes creativity through balanced copyright, and upholds and protects the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully.
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