On Thu, July 3, 2008 14:20, Bob wrote:
Uhhhh, which of the entries are we interested in?
I believe
<http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/enbanc/issues/eb05-16964letter&order.pdf>
(he gave the name of the case in the subject, and searching for that got
to this link).
But it doesn't say anything beyond that the court will rehear the case,
and vacates the lower court decision.
Since I don't remember how it was decided the first time around, it
doesn't actually tell me anything. I could probably google that pretty
easily -- but it would have been useful for him to just tell us the
information, rather than giving a link that requires figuring out which
sub-entry to read and then having to know the history to make any sense of
it.
This has got to be a classic example of the orphan rights problem. I
think it's a *really good thing* for the historic run of NG to be
available on DVD. If they had to track down every single contributor's
heir and individually negotiate rights for this, I'm quite certain it
would never have happened. And if it never happened, there would be no
benefit to any rights holders. For that matter, even for the ones they
could *find*, the chances of working out a decent deal with all of them
are minimal.
(I'm not so sure the remedies Congress is looking at are good ones. It's
a hard problem; but pointing out the cases where it would have inhibited a
good thing from happening seems relevant to me; there's a real problem
there.)
