Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 2003/06

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Law - sense or senseless?
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 19:54:57 -0400

The ADA hadn't occurred to me. I'm not blind. I just can't see <g> -- at
least, something that small.

>Lelia Loban said:
>I'm not an attorney and I can't give legal advice. However, whether or not
>*laws* make sense, as a matter of *common* sense, I think there's a huge
>difference between someone copying music because s/he's too cheap to buy it
>and someone else copying it in order to be able to read it. In the USA, if
>someone legally purchases a score and then makes a copy in order to enlarge
>the notes enough to be able to see them, and if the publisher for some
>reason decides to hunt down that person and sue his socks off, I think it
>might make a very interesting test case under the Americans with
>Disabilities Act. <snip>

>(I have a personal interest in this subject, since my father, legally blind
>since childhood, <snip>

I've been preoccupied myself for the last 2-3 weeks, which is why I'm late
on some of these messages. Not on jury duty, but as the court reporter on a
death penalty murder case that FINALLY finished up this afternoon. (I've
got two more of them between now and the end of the year, as the only
reporter in this district that's qualified to report DP cases.) I was
called a few years ago for jury service. When I went in, the Public
Defender said, "He should go back home. After 30 years as a court reporter,
his BS meter is too well tuned!" The judge agreed. I went home. <g>

Jim

>Somewhat preoccupied with law myself at the moment, since I'm on jury duty
>this week and next....

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