[ga] Re: [A2k] C-Span deal with Google suggests greater restrictions on access to public affairs footage

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vint and all,

Nice deflection Vint, no cigar again though. Copyright has to be applied for
and any copyright holder has wide latitude in it's use.  So as far a "public
affairs"
information no copyright is necessary, but can be applied for and possibly
granted.  In the case of the C-Span deal with Google, suggesting any
"public affairs" information be restricted, is a indication at least of
selective censorship and in direct conflict with "the internet for everyone"
and public domain, most especially regarding "public affairs" information...

Vint Cerf wrote:

> Google doesn't make the copyright rules. Holders of copyright are allowed to
> assert under what conditions their works can be distributed.
>
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Williams [mailto:jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:58 AM
> To: James Love
> Cc: a2k discuss list; vinton g. cerf; General Assembly of the DNSO
> Subject: Re: [A2k] C-Span deal with Google suggests greater restrictions on
> access to public affairs footage
>
> Jamie and all,
>
> Hummm?  I wonder why Google or C-Span would wish to restrict access to of
> all things, "public affairs".  Isn't the internet for everyone?
> Vint?
>
> James Love wrote:
>
> > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/cspan-deal-with-google-
> > s_b_20573.html
> >
> > 05.08.2006
> > C-Span deal with Google suggests greater restrictions on access to
> > public affairs footage
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > James Love, CPTech / www.cptech.org / mailto:james.love@xxxxxxxxxx /
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> Regards,
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Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obediance of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402
E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Registered Email addr with the USPS
Contact Number: 214-244-4827