Who owns the copyright to the copyright law?

Yet another vlog about copyright... The state of Oregon actively protects their copyright on Oregon state law. Printing the law without permission can get you into a heap of trouble.

Please do a video response reading a section of Oregon's Revised Statutes (link below). Oh, and, by the way, the Oregon State Legislative Council can bite my ass.

Oregon Revised Statutes:
http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/home.html

Oregon Cease & Desist Letter (scribd.com)
http://tinyurl.com/66zbym

Oregon: "Our laws are copyrighted" (boingboing)
http://tinyurl.com/5yuknh

10 Myths about Copyright Explained
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

Copyright law of the United States
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

YouTomb (MIT)
http://youtomb.mit.edu/

"The Congress shall have Power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" - United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8

Music by Ludwig Van Beethoven, who's been dead for a really long time.

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[nevermissclancom]

"Music is everybody's possession, it is only publishers that think they could own it...." - John Lennon

[TolstoyKafkaEvsky]

This idea suggests that MONEY is the key to knowing the law, and therefore the key to keeping your freedom, and that in turn suggests that money is the key to freedom and that freedom is not offered as an inalienable right by your state...

[NFvidoJagg2]

Technically the law is property of the public and therefor is not copyrightable and doing so is in violation of free speech

[presspasstv]

Check out the Press Pass Tv Video " Fair Use for Fair Play"

[smb50073]

@SmokingEssy7887 they don't wanna hire a few guys with legal knowledge to sort through the claims. i remember somebody saying that youtube can legally take down stuff for no reason since it's their site but that could just be the internet talking

[WordAndReason]

I don't believe government bodies should be allowed to retain copyright. If it is attached to a federal, state, or local government letterhead, paid for with taxes, it is the peoples physical and intellectual property. Period. They have essentially done away with the important concept of access to information for those who have payed for it in the first place. Paying to have access means paying for it a second time. They have clearly appointed themselves both the judge and the jury on this.

[SmokingEssy7887]

Youtube needs to say to Time warner (WMG) "Buzz off!!! we will take down clear copyright infrigment but we support fair use and you need to mind your own F---in business because these small bits of yours songs on youtube are not harming you at all: it is fair use and fair use is the law! so buzz off and let us handle it!"

[dovlinhos]

My brain still refuses to process the information that they wanted to enforce that copyright.

[MrAnomanom]

That music might be copy right. Oh noes. -.-

[commode7x]

I just find it interesting that people don't just make new laws. I mean, the American system makes sure that its people can simply make new laws if they want to. I don't understand why it's such an issue to get a bunch of smart citizens together, come up with a law, then vote in legislators that will pass that law.

You Americans...

[hardcider09]

#2 Selection and Arrangement Copyright. Yes, you can copyright your selection and arrangement of data, but it has to be q NON-OBVIOUS way that you arranged the data. E.g. You can't copyright a phone book. Arranging people's names and phone numbers alphabetically is too obvious a convention. Unless the State of Oregon did something clever and unconventional in how it arranged the statutes (i.e. NOT simply grouping them by date, #, or subject) it would have a very weak claim to any copyright.