{"id":25566,"date":"2012-01-18T20:12:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T03:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/de-public-domaining.html"},"modified":"2012-01-18T20:12:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T03:12:19","slug":"de-public-domaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/de-public-domaining.html","title":{"rendered":"De-public Domaining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because, of course, property rights must always trump all else, the US Supreme Court upheld, 6-1 (Breyer and Alito dissenting, Kagan recused), that Congress can take something that&#39;s already passed into Public Domain and put it back under copyright &#8212; in this case to align with an international treaty.<\/p>\n<p>How this actually helps promote the creation of new works is, um, unclear. But I&#39;m sure someone will be making money, so that&#39;s what counts, right?  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/breakingnews\/ci_19766747'>U.S. Supreme Court rules against DU professor in copyright case &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a University of Denver music professor this morning in a long-running copyright case.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because, of course, property rights must always trump all else, the US Supreme Court upheld, 6-1 (Breyer and Alito dissenting, Kagan recused), that Congress can take something that&#39;s already passed into Public Domain and put it back under copyright &#8212; in this case to align with an international treaty. How this actually helps promote the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/de-public-domaining.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;De-public Domaining&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26558,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/yet-another-reason-to-avoid-local-denver-tv-until-december.html","url_meta":{"origin":25566,"position":0},"title":"Yet another reason to avoid local Denver TV until December","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Feb-12 2:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Colorado Supreme Court rules that 527s can advertise as much as they want, raise as much as they want, spend as much as they want, as long as they don't include the magic words: \"vote for,\" \"reject,\" \"defeat,\" \"elect\" and \"cast your ballot for.\"That includes saying, \"John Smith loves his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26526,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/19\/montana-gets-to-have-corporate-bought-elections-huzzah.html","url_meta":{"origin":25566,"position":1},"title":"Montana gets to have corporate-bought elections, huzzah","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Feb-12 9:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Montana's Supreme Court ruled in a recent case that Citizens United did not apply to that state because the campaign contribution laws there were based on a long history of monied interests interfering in and corrupting state electoral politics.Not all that surprisingly, SCOTUS has issued a stay of that decision,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2Fscotusjustices-300x168.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24251,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/re-redistricted.html","url_meta":{"origin":25566,"position":2},"title":"Re-Redistricted","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Dec-11 5:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"After the last go-around (https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/unredistricted.html), it looks like we in Colorado have our redistricting. And that it leads to substantially more competitive districts all-around is, I think, a good thing. Plus, I feel a lot more in common with a suburban ring around Denver than with the more rural and\/or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23765,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/unredistricted.html","url_meta":{"origin":25566,"position":3},"title":"UNredistricted","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-11 5:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Honestly, I don't think congressional districts should align to counties (yeah, I can see the argument why, but it's an additional complicating factor that just makes things tougher to redistrict). #ddtb Embedded Link Colorado high court rejects plan for new legislative districts - The Denver Post The Colorado Supreme Court\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23652,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/redistricted.html","url_meta":{"origin":25566,"position":4},"title":"Redistricted","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Nov-11 8:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So it looks like (barring an escalation to the state Supreme Court) that we have a new congressional district map in Colorado. 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