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: Threat LevelEFF Wonders: Did Obama Violate Copyright Law With iPod Gift?
By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets
Associated Press
President Barack Obama gave Queen Elizabeth II an iPod on Thursday 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.
Read his Thursday blog post here.
Tell us what you think.
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Full post as published by Threat Level on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).
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