{"id":24423,"date":"2014-05-19T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=24423"},"modified":"2014-05-19T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:10:59","slug":"eugene-volokh-on-brandon-and-u-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2014\/eugene-volokh-on-brandon-and-u-queensland\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Volokh: On Brandon and U Queensland."},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems every legal issue that ever comes up at climate blogs ends up discussed at The Volokh conspiracy. <\/a> This time the post is by the founding blogger Eugene Volokh is commenting on Brandon’s letter. If things get really nasty and involve accusations of “hacking”, I suspect Orin Kerr will end up commenting. (Orin represented the “Weev” in a recent hacking appeal.) <\/p>\n

Eugene, a 1st amendment and copyright scholar does provide a caveat at the outset. <\/p>\n

I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t speak to Australian law on this, but here is my view of American law, which I first blogged about in 2008:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He then continues, basically pointing out that letter can be and are copyright protected, but copy may be permissible under fair use. The four factors of fair use are discussed. <\/p>\n

I”m going to send you to Eugene’s post to read more, but the summary is<\/p>\n

If it weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t for the unpublished nature of the letter, the Supreme Court\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Campbell v. Acuff-Rose (1994) decision, on which I rely in my quick analysis above, would copying of cease-and-desist letters almost open-and-shut fair use. The unpublished nature of the work undermines that in some measure (see, e.g., Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises (1985)); but I still think a copier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fair use argument in such a situation is quite strong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems every legal issue that ever comes up at climate blogs ends up discussed at The Volokh conspiracy. This time the post is by the founding blogger Eugene Volokh is commenting on Brandon’s letter. If things get really nasty and involve accusations of “hacking”, I suspect Orin Kerr will end up commenting. (Orin represented … Continue reading Eugene Volokh: On Brandon and U Queensland.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[428,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright-2","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}