Linked by Paul Cesarini on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:02 UTC
Thanks to a provision in the 1976 Copyright Act, U.S. law allows the first purchaser of copyrighted material (a book, CD, etc) to subsequently re-sell that item without the copyright owner's consent. In this age of online distribution and the budding, halting attempts at legitimizing it, is the the right to re-sell going to be upheld?
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RE Obliex
2a.) I can't record you.
2a) isn't you can't record me and use the recording in court without my knowledge beforehand(as in sworn depositions on tape?)
Same statement different recorder. In both cases their is a preceived right to privacy. I may volintary give it up, aka an police officer, an insurance adjuster but both parties (in most states) must know of the recording.
Now, A court order can overide this and you may or may not know of this order. (telphone lines, bugging bedrooms)
Don't get me wrong, the goverment might may the internet a safer cleaner place, but that worries me. After all I'm still paying a tax on my phone line to support the Spanish american war. shudder.