Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: ARNIE & FAIR USE: TIT Message-ID: <9509191529.0LRNV02@support.com> References: Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35 Distribution: world Date: Tue, 19 Sep 95 15:29:43 -0700 Lines: 49 lepton@panix.com (Mike O'Connor) >Andy Greenberg: > >I've been watching the O.J. trial. Recently, a woman writer had >interviewed a police officer, and the defense really wanted those tapes >entered into evidence. The woman was against it. They were her tapes. She >wanted to keep them secret. > >She fought it in court. Eventually she lost and the tapes were entered >into the record, and part of them were played for the jury. > >I watched this all on Court TV. I read about it in all ther papers. I >heard all of the tapes in the defense proffer. We all did. Many times, >copyrighted or protected materials are entered into a court record, and we >all instantly see it all, freely reported on Court TV, news articles, and >so on. > >A. Lerma got a court record, which at the time was publicly available to >absolutely anyone. The document was not sealed, in fact it had gone >through two procedures where sealing it was denied. The public court >document had some allegedly copyrighted materials within it. Lerma >reported (posted) the contents of the public court document, in its >entirety. In accompanying postings, he gave comments on the materials. > >Here comes the part I don't understand. Didn't he do exactly the same >thing Court TV does, or that Time and NBC do when they put O.J. >transcripts on the net? It seems obvious to me that Court TV and Time and >NBC don't have any trouble posting public court documents to millions of >people, even when disputed, copyrighted documents are in them. In the O.J. >trial alone, we have seen this done plenty of times, not only the Fuhrman >tapes, but clips from copyrighted TV and print news stories. Yea, and how come the Post was able to get co-operation from the court clerk and get the copies of Fishman while they were still unsealed when *individuals* who went there and requested them just got turned away? >So my question is, how could the Lerma prosecution have any merit to it at >all? -Mike Damn good questions! +--------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * dennis.l.erlich@support.com + inForm@primenet.com "tar baby"