Posted on 06/16/2019 5:25:54 PM PDT by aimhigh
That’s what he billed them for. They didn’t want to pay.
FREE MONEY
Simply repost the NY Times website, at a University, add advertisements, and make free money.
The elite University has not thought this through.
It most certainly is Copyright Infringement. Promotional use is still commercial use.
Yup.
The University is not a function of Government until AFTER the Communist takeover.
For those who don’t know, here is the 11th Amendment:
The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
Would seem to me that if the copyright holder was a Texas citizen, the 11th Amendment simply does not apply. If he wasn’t, then the 11th Amendment may apply.
Some additional background info about this issue: https://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat72700.html
Wow. When the courts agree with theft from citizens with no due process, the Republic rots a little more. Sorry, kids.
It wasn’t always like this.
Having supreme political authority? Immunity from the laws of the bigger and smaller jurisdictions about them? They are really full of themselves. This is so ridiculous. The judge must be on debilitating medications. He should put in for a sabbatical to get his head straight. The photographer (obviously professional and skilled) should sue for at least treble damages if he takes it to a federal court, as someone here suggested. Oberlin comes to mind.
If this stands, I can see local municipal agencies, which used to be departments like the Fire Department but are now the Fire Authority, changing their name to sovereignties: the Fire Sovereignty, making up laws as they go!
This Texan says it is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
Does every decision a court make depend on case law? That’s absurd! This is a clear violation of the photographer’s constitutional rights. How can the USA argue about China’s theft of IP when the USA is no better.
That’s terrible. Leftists hate private property.
Likewise, if someone took a photo of the home I owned and tried to sell it, would I own the rights to images of my property?
Would the University own the rights to its own images?
-PJ
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