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Brady Campaign violating U.S. copyright law?
Update October 15, 2006, 7 PM Eastern:
Attempts to access the article in question are now met with a log-in window. Brady has blocked access for anybody not authorized to view the article, but the public can still access the 2007 and 2008 Brady scorecards in their "xshare" section.
The copied article remains available in the Google cache.
Previous articles examined the possibility that the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence may intentionally, or unwittingly, be aiding and abetting violent criminals via Brady’s push for “sensible” gun laws. Now there is evidence that the Brady Campaign may feel they are above federal law.
For example, one article examined Brady’s 2007 scorecard on state gun laws, and found that citizens living in Brady’s highest-scoring states–better according to Brady– experience reduced economic and personal freedom due to oppressive government regulation.
Another article examined the Brady Campaign 2007 scorecard, which showed that states with higher Brady scores–safer according to Brady–averaged higher murder and violent crime rates. (Safer for whom?)
Recently, we examined the Brady Campaign 2008 score card, which showed the same results as the study of the 2007 score card.
Almost immediately after this last article, readers reported that the link to Brady’s 2008 scorecard was dead. Searches performed since have indicated that all the Brady report cards dating back to 2001 (the first) have been removed from their site. (Is this because every year’s report card showed the same results as those found in 2008?)
Today’s search turned up a link at the Brady site that contains an article by this author, copied in toto.
U.S. copyright law grants the copyright holder “exclusive rights to do and authorize” reproduction and distribution of their registered works. Even under fair use, copyright law includes a set of criteria under which parts of copyrighted material may be used: Brady has obeyed only one of them: including the author’s name.
Brady copied this article from News With Views after the article was posted there on July 2, 2008. Towards the bottom of the page, after the endnotes, is this statement: “© 2008 Howard Nemerov - All Rights Reserved”.
Why should anybody listen to an organization that promotes legal policy, when they are unwilling to follow the law themselves?
Howard Nemerov, Brady Campaign to Define ‘Sensible Gun Laws’, downloaded from Brady site October 14, 2009. http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/clips/txt/2008-07-09-Brady_Campaign_Sensible_Gun.txt
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