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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: ARNIE & FAIR USE: TIT
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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!

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