Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Porn is fair use as Open Record...

... so says the Wisconsin Court of Appeals requiring that porn caught up in a school-teachers' firing is an open record:
We hold that a person aggrieved by a request made under the Open Records Law has standing to raise a challenge that the requested materials are not "records" because they are copyrighted. We further hold that the language of the statute, when viewed in light of the "fair use" exception to copyright infringement, applies so that the CD and the memo are "records" within the statutory definition of Wis. Stat. § 19.32(2)

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