New Jersey Town Claims Copyright Over Public Meetings
from the good-luck-with-that dept
Copycense points us to the news of a New Jersey town, Hammonton, that is apparently trying to claim copyright over its public meetings and anything else broadcast over its public access network. Seems like quite a strange definition of public access television if the focus is on copyrighting all that public content. Even more troubling, of course, is this idea that public meetings in the interest of the public and paid for by the public, are now supposed to be covered by copyright. While the federal gov't isn't allowed to copyright stuff, we have seen local governments claim copyright over documents before -- but claiming copyright over meetings seems like a bigger stretch.
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I guess I would want to know if they are claiming copyright over any recordings made of the meeting, or only over some sort of 'official' recording made? If John Q. Citizen brought his camcorder in and made his own recording, and they tried to claim copyright over that, then there is a serious issue.
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Snooky
- Deeply ashamed of myself
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Now, if you used "The Situation," that would be a different story.
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And this is why...
They knew that when the power corrupted those in power and they needed to be removed... we had the duty and right to remove them.
Use those arms... in the voting booth... and remove idiots from office.
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by Anonymous Coward
So you're saying we should shoot all the officials of this city because they have some wrong and misguided ideas about copyrighting public meetings?
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"Use those arms... in the voting booth... and remove idiots from office."
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Fucking pud-puller.
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it was mildy witty.
As you well know, the right to bear arms has nothing to do with the right to vote. Wit can rely non-sequiters
btw, Fucking pud-puller is a very self revealing way to sign off on a post.
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