Posted on 10/13/2015 4:26:36 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/13/congressional-review-of-copyright-law-may-threaten-drudge-report/
Congressional Review Of Copyright Law May Threaten Drudge Report Photo of Kerry Picket Kerry Picket Reporter 5:20 PM 10/13/2015
WASHINGTON — Congress may update digital copyright law affecting aggregator sites, like the Drudge Report and Real Clear Politics, along with news sites in the near future.
“Two years ago, the House Judiciary Committee launched a comprehensive review of our nation’s copyright laws, which have not been updated since 1976. As technology continues to rapidly advance, we have a responsibility to ensure that our laws are keeping pace with these developments,” Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte said in a statement.
Since March of 2013, the House Judiciary Committee has conducted 20 hearings, which included testimony from 100 witnesses on the subject of copyright law in the digital age. The topics range from fair use to scope of copyright protection to music licensing.
“The committee has been conducting a comprehensive review of U.S. copyright law to ensure that the law keeps pace with the digital age in which we live. The goal of the listening tour is to step out of Washington, D.C. to hear from creators and innovators in terms of what is and is not working for them in their various fields,” a committee staffer told The Daily Caller.
The committee staffer would not say how the laws would affect aggregators and news sites and said that only “all stakeholders are invited to come in and meet with staff in order to give their thoughts or express concerns. Those meetings are ongoing.”
Drudge Report site owner Matt Drudge told Alex Jones of InfoWars last week that copyright laws could very well end his popular site.
“I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it’s over for me,” said Drudge. “They’ve got the votes now to enforce copyright law, you’re out of there. They’re going to make it so you can’t even use headlines.”
He explained, “To have a Supreme Court Justice say to me it’s over, they’ve got the votes, which means time is limited,” he added, noting that a day was coming when simply operating an independent website could be outlawed. That will end [it] for me – fine – I’ve had a hell of a run,” said Drudge, adding that web users were being pushed into the cyber ‘ghettos’ of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.”
Drudge added, “This is ghetto, this is corporate, they’re taking your energy and you’re getting nothing in return – nothing!”
In July, Chairman Goodlatte and Democrat Ranking Member John Conyers invited witnesses from the Committee’s previous copyright review hearings as well as other interested stakeholders to meet with committee staff to provide additional input on copyright policy issues.
According to the committee, almost 50 meetings were scheduled and those will take several more weeks. Additionally, Goodlatte and Conyers announced that the House Judiciary Committee would conduct a listening tour as part of the copyright review.
Related - Drudge: “I had a Supreme Court Justice say to me it’s over for me.”:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3345628/posts
JimRob mentioned this previously.
Thanks - BTW: it’s crucial that the Copyright review committee hears an earful from FR at their California Nov 9 & 10 “Listening tour”!
RE: “Related - Drudge: “I had a Supreme Court Justice say to me it’s over for me.”:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3345628/posts
JimRob mentioned this previously.”
Ok, thanks. Never can keep Conyers and Johnson straight for some reason.
Bingo!
Of course the government party trolls in Congress are looking at this. One of the greatest roadblocks to tyranny is an informed public.
There are also a lot of nasty provisions buried in the TPP, which is a Christmas tree of special-interest giveaways disguised as a “trade deal”.
Hey, let’s copyright all profanity!
Then DU can’t use it.
in everyday titles?
26 upper case
26 lower case
just the text of a news item.
How about introducing typos, different font, or a ‘cipher’, kind of like the experiment where you leave the vowels out of a text. It is still readable.
Or spell each word backwards. Might be readable, or use an ‘app’ to un-back it.
Dang, better close up all those loopholes (and I don’t mean democrats’ and republicans’ body parts).
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