Sentences with phrase «domain of public interest»

Not exact matches

Texas eminent domain lawyer Luke Ellis, told the Houston Chronicle: «The public interest question surrounding exports provides an opening to challenge land takings in court, and is almost certainly on the minds of pipeline executives.»

Public domain refers to the body of creative works and knowledge in which no person, government or organization has any proprietary interest such as a copyright.

A human interest lawyer, Sam Pee Yalley is calling on authorities at the LEKMA Hospital to investigate how a photo of the late P V Obeng lying on a stretcher at the morgue got into the public domain.

As an example, any business interests and tax records for a public employee is public domain because disclosure is required by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (Pub.L.

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As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

If not, you might still find this an interesting selection of authors whose books went into the public domain in other countries before they went into the public domain in the US.

One of the first sites that operates through user - interest dollars was Unglue.it, who as early as 2011 was working to solicit donations to take existing books and basically «unglue» the copyright status; for enough donations, the rights» holder — either the publisher, the author, or the author's estate — would be compensated to release the book into public domain.

Free public domain book PDFs: If you're interested in a source for over 19,000 public domain books that you can access for free in several different formats, hundreds of volunteers have been working for a few decades on Project Gutenberg.

What's interesting: The Alex e-reader comes preloaded with a number of public domain classics, plus an Australian version of George Orwell's novel 1984.

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Faced with an absence of information within a provenance, and having taken into account this policy and considered the research undertaken in accordance with the Gallery's codification of procedures for due diligence, the Gallery may from time to time elect to bring a work into the public domain through exhibition, in such circumstances where the Gallery can demonstrate the highest standard of due diligence has been undertaken and consideration has been given to the view of the current possessor, in belief that such display may encourage other legitimate claimants to make known their interest.

Think about eminent domain, zoning, wetlands development regulations and the like, all of which impose limitations in the name of the common good and the public interest.

I believe that the leaking of this draft is entirely legal, that the taxpayer funded report report is properly in the public domain under the Freedom of Information Act, and that making it available to the public is in any case protected by established legal and ethical standards, but web hosting companies are not in the business of making such determinations so interested readers are encouraged to please download copies of the report for further dissemination in case this content is removed as a possible terms - of - service violation.

[Moreover,] the Court held that initiating and conducting negotiations in order to conclude an international agreement fall, in principle, within the domain of the executive, and that public participation in the procedure relating to the negotiation and the conclusion of an international agreement is necessarily restricted, in view of the legitimate interest in not revealing strategic elements of the negotiations (Case T ‑ 529 / 09 in't Veld v Council [2012] ECR II - 0000, paragraph 88; see also paragraph 57 and the end of paragraph 59 of the judgment).

The Hon E David Burt JP, MP, Premier of Bermuda, said: «Once again the EU has recognized Bermuda's status as a cooperative jurisdiction, despite the interest surrounding a hack on a global law firm and related documents in the public domain.

This is old now, but I just found a recording of an interesting 2007 talk by Carl Malamud about his efforts to cajole US Government agencies and Canadian corporations into recognizing and acting on the public domain status of all US government info, including, of course, case law.

We should never forget that this is public domain information in its truest sense that should be, and can be, easily accessible to public, private and individual interests as a true foundation stone of the healthy and functioning democratic system that Canada strives to be.

Our team of analysts review more than 1,000 sources daily, including a full range of public domain data, such as government databases and publications, corporate statements and websites, marketing and press releases, academic publications, conference publications, industry associations and interest groups, and specialist as well as general media.

This article begins by presenting some examples of organizations dedicated to law practiced in the public interest followed by a few interesting projects in this domain.

A couple of interesting recent law journal articles are Philip Johnson, «Dedicating Copyright to the Public Domain» Modern Law Review 71 (4): 587 - 610 (July 2008); and Timothy K. Armstrong, «Shrinking the Commons: Termination of Copyright Licenses and Transfers for the Benefit of the Public» Harvard Journal on Legislation 47 (2): 359 - 423 (Summer 2010).

Their chart / matrix explaining public domain in the U.S. is interesting — and illustrative of problems in the area.

The CLA Standing Committee on Intellectual Property and Public Access — International Trade Treaties Working Group has two documents that should be of interest to SLAWers: their report on the WTO / TRIPS agreement, which concludes that the agreement is not especially hostile to balanced domestic copyright legislation, and advises so - called «user groups» and other advocating for balance to confront claims that «international agreements» require extension of ownership domain.

His five years of legal domain and professional experience covers a range of legal practice, having worked at the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, and as a sole practitioner.

A graduate of McGill Law and called to the bar in British Columbia and Québec, his six years of legal domain and professional experience covers a range of legal practice, at the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, and as a sole practitioner.

The Court reaffirmed that the role of copyright provides «a balance between promoting the public interest in the encouragement and dissemination of works of the arts and intellect and obtaining a just reward for the creator» and that copyright does not provide a monopoly over facts or ideas in the public domain, «which all are free to draw upon for their own works».

One of the most interesting recent online intellectual property events was Eric «Wile E. Coyote Cybergenius» Menhart capitulating his quixotic attempt to trademark the term «cyberlaw» out of the public domain.

By denying third party public interest filers the procedural ability to challenge patents, the patent system would sacrifice an important asset and a mainstay of their mission to manage the public domain and promote public knowledge and innovation.

Third party public interest filers can play an important role in improving patent quality as their efforts are explicitly concerned with the effects of dubious looking patents on the public domain.

Thus the Patent Reform Act of 2007 would have essentially eliminated important public interest projects such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Patent Busting Project, which uses inter and ex parte reexamination proceedings to challenge and defend against patents that potentially infringe on the public domain.45 In this way, the Patent Reform Act of 2007 would have failed to replace the current reexamination processes with an adequate form of post grant review.

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Former Tony Abbott policy adviser Terry Barnes told Medical Observer that he supported the idea of the FOI application in the interests of public debate and getting more data into the public domain.