But when Ubois tried to get access to Quayle's speech in storage at the Hoover Institute, librarians told him that copyright and contractual obligations to the Commonwealth Club prevented them from making a digital copy of the speech for educational use.
but, but, but that's wrong; actually legally wrong. so wrong that second year law students who sat in one roundtable discussion on intellectual property can formulate the whole legal argument why it's wrong. the one thing no-one has managed to get changed is that educational use, rather broadly defined, is an absolute defense to unlicensed copying and distribution.
now, of course, that doesn't mean that people won't refuse to make copies because they think they can't. it also doesn't mean that people won't think they can contract away third-party defenses, but it's wrong!
anyway. not what i was expecting when i clicked the link. i wasn't thinking "can't" as "unable"; i was thinking "can't" as some sort of mental block. like how you can't taste your own tongue.
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Date: 2006-11-09 03:29 pm (UTC)but, but, but that's wrong; actually legally wrong. so wrong that second year law students who sat in one roundtable discussion on intellectual property can formulate the whole legal argument why it's wrong. the one thing no-one has managed to get changed is that educational use, rather broadly defined, is an absolute defense to unlicensed copying and distribution.
now, of course, that doesn't mean that people won't refuse to make copies because they think they can't. it also doesn't mean that people won't think they can contract away third-party defenses, but it's wrong!
anyway. not what i was expecting when i clicked the link. i wasn't thinking "can't" as "unable"; i was thinking "can't" as some sort of mental block. like how you can't taste your own tongue.