{"id":5742,"date":"2004-07-23T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T16:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/23\/trust-us-were-from-the-government.html"},"modified":"2004-07-23T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2004-07-23T16:39:49","slug":"trust_us_were_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/23\/trust_us_were_f.html","title":{"rendered":"Trust us — we’re from the government"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s any number of elements in this analysis<\/a> of the statements by Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights of the US Copyright Office on how the IICA\/INDUCE Act is really a keen thing, even if it doesn’t go far enough, which deserve highlighting (and subsequent staring-aghast, eye-roilling, or brickbats toward Ms Peters), but this one caught my eye:<\/p>\n

Let me be clear, however, that our concern about its future application should not hold up this bill.<\/p>\n

Actually, it’s clear from any number of laws that such concerns should lead one to hold up passage. The DMCA is a perfect example.<\/p>\n

The IICA would make it illegal not just to violate copyright law (which is, of course, illegal), but to manufacture anything that might “intentionally induce” people to do so (such induction and intent to be at the discretion of prosecutors, courts, etc.). An amusing collection of items that could arguably be considered such verboten contraband can be found here<\/a>. Other folks have suggested “paper” and “radio” and “TV” (not to mention TiVos and PCs) could fall under its aegis.<\/p>\n

Outrageous exagerration? Maybe. But, as another politician (LBJ) who understood the law-making (and law-bending) game a lot better than Ms Kelly does once noted:<\/p>\n

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.<\/p>\n

(via Stan<\/strong>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s any number of elements in this analysis of the statements by Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights of the US Copyright Office on how the IICA\/INDUCE Act is really a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7173,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/14\/this_will_make.html","url_meta":{"origin":5742,"position":0},"title":"This will make me sleep better tonight","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Oct-04 9:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"In a nation ravaged by crime and trying to crack down on potential terrorist attacks, our fearless attorney general is out there making the biggest crooks of all a \"top...","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5950,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/24\/think_of_the_ch.html","url_meta":{"origin":5742,"position":1},"title":"Think of the children","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Jun-04 12:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Orrin Hatch has introduced the \"Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act,\" which is meant to Protect the Children from Evil P2P Panderers Which Suck Them into a Life of Intellectual Property...","rel":"","context":"In "Media Moguls"","block_context":{"text":"Media Moguls","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-moguls"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128334,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/appeals-court-okays-googles-book-scanning.html","url_meta":{"origin":5742,"position":2},"title":"Appeals Court okays Google's book scanning","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 17-Oct-15 10:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've used Google Books' scans many times, but I can honestly say it has never discouraged me from actually buying a book. In a few cases, in fact, it's been the opposite -- having seen something interesting, I've purchased a copy of the book. Google's Book-Scanning Project Is Legal, U.S.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16929,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-thu-18-mar-2010-800pm.html","url_meta":{"origin":5742,"position":3},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Thu, 18 Mar 2010, 8:00PM","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Mar-10 5:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... May they shrink up and blow away [Thoughts from Kansas] - The insanity of California politics is essentially destroying a great state. The Perfect Tweet - DORK TOWER, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 EFF Posts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Potpourri"","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11359,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/13\/law_suit_over_shrink_wrap.html","url_meta":{"origin":5742,"position":4},"title":"Law suit over shrink-wrap licensing","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Sep-07 10:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Most folks don't realize that most of the software you buy ... you aren't really buying.\u00a0 You're licensing it.\u00a0 Yeah, sure, you have the disks and the manuals and all,...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30088,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/05\/theres-ownership-and-then-theres-not-really-ownership.html","url_meta":{"origin":5742,"position":5},"title":"There's ownership, and then there's not-really-ownership","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Sep-12 11:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"There are no actual good (vs. accurate) answers to the question. \u00a0Bottom line, Big Media has ensured that copyright (currently) lasts for 70 years after the author's death*, but your DRMed licensed library of books from Amazon (et al.) are locked to your account and effectively die when you do.Unless,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}