So how do we get from income taxes to copyright law? Let's read about the new copyright ruing and see if we can disentangle the judges opinion. From the article:
The decision hinges on the portion of Fair Use law that declares that it's all right to re-distribute a piece of content as long as it doesn't hurt the market for the original content. In this case, there was virtually no possible overlap between the readership of the original piece (a Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper article) and the readers who would see the piece on the non-profit's website.
OK, I see one overlap, the readers are reading the same article, exactly, from the same author!
This ruling will fail on appeal, the judge is simply an idiot.
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