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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: HoyaSaxa03 on April 03, 2009, 11:54:28 am

Title: Did Obama violate copyright law with iPod gift?
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on April 03, 2009, 11:54:28 am
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/first-sale-president-obama-and-queen-england
Title: Re: Did Obama violate copyright law with iPod gift?
Post by: walkonby on April 03, 2009, 11:57:42 am
don't you think posting this on a site that not so quietly enjois "stealing music" of the internet, sort of amusing?
Title: Re: Did Obama violate copyright law with iPod gift?
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 03, 2009, 12:43:59 pm
in theory all they would need to  do is buy a iTunes gift card and repurchase the tracks and delete them....

it's also interesting to note that in this gadget happy digital age the focus is on the iPod and not the rare signed songbook also give as part of the gift...

and to think all that was received in return was a couple signed pictures  :P
Title: Re: Did Obama violate copyright law with iPod gift?
Post by: Venerable Bede on April 03, 2009, 06:14:48 pm
in theory all they would need to  do is buy a iTunes gift card and repurchase the tracks and delete them....

it's also interesting to note that in this gadget happy digital age the focus is on the iPod and not the rare signed songbook also give as part of the gift...

and to think all that was received in return was a couple signed pictures  :P
that's because it's amusing to some the less-than-thoughtful gifts so far given by this administration to english leaders. . .that being said, i think that the signed songbook is far more thoughtful, and someone probably went to a lot of trouble to track something like that down- instead of the 10 minutes in best buy or in the white house gift shop, like previous gifts.

oh, and that goes without commenting on that he gave the queen audio copies of his own speeches. . . . . . . .
Title: Re: Did Obama violate copyright law with iPod gift?
Post by: vansmack on April 03, 2009, 06:53:26 pm

oh, and that goes without commenting on that he gave the queen audio copies of his own speeches. . . . . . . .

She already has copies of the Kennedy boys' speeches.
Title: Re: Did Obama violate copyright law with iPod gift?
Post by: Christine Moritz on April 04, 2009, 03:01:52 pm
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/first-sale-president-obama-and-queen-england
This bit from the article made me LOL:

UPDATE: Prof. Michael Froomkin points out that the Queen enjoys sovereign immunity under UK law because she is, well, the sovereign.