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... the House Republican Study Committee issued a news release accusing Speaker Nancy Pelosi of “pirating” 16 copyrighted clips of House floor debate from the public affairs network C-Span by including them on her new blog, The Gavel.Shortly after the news release was distributed by e-mail, C-Span corrected the record to say that House and Senate floor debates are “government works,” shot by government-owned cameras, and thus in the public domain.
But last week, as it happens, C-Span did contact the speaker’s office to have it take down a different clip from her blog — one shot by C-Span’s cameras at a House Science and Technology Committee hearing on global warming where Ms. Pelosi testified, Mr. Daly said. (The blog has substituted material filmed by the committee’s cameras, he said.)
is there a copyright on the "public performance" or only on a recording thereof?
as a not unrelated thought:
i wonder what happens when the audiomagic software is run on a video that captured the same event as another copyrighted video that happens to be owned by a large media corporation...
