The Legislative Council Committee hearing on the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) copyright dispute between Legislative Counsel and Public Resource dot org will be held:
Thursday, June 19, 10:30 AM, Hearing Room A
There are numerous, and overlapping, links into these live links, so try the one that works for you:
Latest posts on the upcoming June 19th hearing in Salem:
1) From Wikiprojectoregon, Time to Get Political! (which also posts time/place of hearing)
2) Jack Bog’s Blog, State of Oregon as cyberbully
June 19th, 2008, hearing in Salem, on this copyright dispute. (I last posted about this dispute here.) No details yet about time, where, or who.
Letter here (via Public Resource dot org).
SCRIBD documents on this matter are located in this Scribd group, also courtesy of Public Resource dot org.
What are Orphan Works and why does anyone care about them? (No, this is not a post about Charles Dickens and the working orphans who populate his novels. I’m an Our Mutual Friend fan myself – see here about these digressions. Sorry.)
1) “Orphan works” described here and here.
2) Why does anyone care? The usual: Life, art, money, legislation, and Justice, Truth and the American Way.
3) A sampling of websites on the subject, though there are, as you would expect, zillions of others:
If you are following this dispute (and I last posted about it here), you might want to do a little reading about copyright, the history of commercial and official legal publishing, and vendor neutral citation (yes, all of these are entertwined) – unless you want to sound ill-informed (or worse) when you Comment about the issue on the various blogs and news sites that are running stories about this dispute.
1) For fun, start with Bound by Law, the copyright comic book by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins.
2) A very interesting, provocative, and readable article: “Neutral Citation, Court Web Sites, and Access to Authoritative Case Law, by Peter Martin, 99 Law Library Journal 339 (Spring 2007) will give you an idea how much and how long these issues have been debated. (Quite a few of the articles in this issue are equally provocative, including an update to one of my favorites: “Why Do We Ask the Same Questions: The Triple Helix Dilemma Revisited,” by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic.)
Public Resource dot org has created this web page devoted to this dispute (about which I last posted here.)
(Among other things, it says “Kibbitzers welcome.” I thought in this state (Oregon) they were called Kitzhabers?“ Oy 🙂
(I last posted about this dispute here.)
Ars Technica: Fight shaping up over Oregon state law copyright claim (May 13th) (I’m not too sure about Nate Anderson’s “Out West” and the “tumbleweed” references, but we need all the lightness we can get when tempers get hot. I’m a Shane gal myself 🙂
The law librarian wonk (me) also has this to say:
Selected recent (April and May) postings on this dispute, about which I posted previously here :
1) Loaded Orygun has a summery posted 5/12/08.
2) From ZDNet Government: Oregon says its law is copyright (and a link to the letter with the June 2nd deadline notice from public dot resource) (and other ZDNet posts with Oregon tags).
Selected recent postings on this dispute, about which I posted here.
1) From ADF Alliance Alert: Oregon threatens over statutes copyright? (with a link to this post at The Volokh Conspiracy (and associated Comments)
2) J’s Scratchpad: James Grimmelman: Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: Old Problems and New Solutions
If you want to follow this story, here are direct links and suggested searches:
1) Further discussion of this topic can be found at Jack Bog’s Blog, see post and comments here: “Don’t you dare post Oregon laws on the internet!”
2) See also Loaded Orygun post, here.
Oregon Legal Research Blog