"notbob" > wrote in message
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> On 2012-01-21, Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
>> I never heard of Cooks Source before. If it was
>> discussed here, I missed it. But apparently there
>> was a flamewar on Facebook over their thievery.
>> Too bad the web is Balkanizing like this. It used
>> to be that every flamewar had some presence in
>> Usenet newsgroups.
>
> We've not even begun to Balkanize!
>
> You need to keep abreast of the reality that is currently copyright
> law and how it is and will effect us in the future. Are you aware
> that our own US Supreme Court has jes ruled it's now OK to now
> re-copyright material that's long been out of copyright and in the public
> domain for years?

interesting. But it was congress that passed the law, and a president who
signed it.

"The case, Golan v. Holder, No. 10-545, considered a 1994 law enacted to
carry out an international convention. The law applied mainly to works first
published abroad from 1923 to 1989 that had earlier not been eligible for
copyright protection under American law, including films by Alfred
Hitchcock, books by C. S. Lewis and Virginia Woolf, symphonies by Prokofiev
and Stravinsky and paintings by Picasso. "

more info here if anyone is interested:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/bu...ices-rule.html