President Barack Obama gave Queen Elizabeth II an iPod on Wednesday with some 40 Broadway songs from popular musicals like West Side Story and the King and I. Yet convoluted U.S. copyright laws make it unclear whether the chief executive is a copyright scofflaw. Fred von Lohmann, a copyright expert at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, explains: "You know your copyright laws are broken when there is no easy answer to this question," he wrote. - David Kravets, Wired THREAT LEVEL Privacy Crime and Security Online
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Did Obama Violate Copyright Law With iPod Gift?
President Barack Obama gave Queen Elizabeth II an iPod on Wednesday with some 40 Broadway songs from popular musicals like West Side Story and the King and I. Yet convoluted U.S. copyright laws make it unclear whether the chief executive is a copyright scofflaw. Fred von Lohmann, a copyright expert at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, explains: "You know your copyright laws are broken when there is no easy answer to this question," he wrote. - David Kravets, Wired THREAT LEVEL Privacy Crime and Security Online
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