On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 18:03:15 UTC, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
One thing I noticed is that the article mentions images created by private companies and then bought for use by the government. It occurs to me that people might have been using FOIA as an endrun to avoid paying the companies for their images - find out that the government happens to be one of their customers, demand copies from the government under FOIA, and then use the images for free "because it's from the government".
Very interesting point, and that's probably what's involved. Now if someone can teacht he government to say what it (supp0osedly) means on those occasions when it's *not* making a power grab, things will really be nice.
I'm no conservative, but if a company has put up their own satellite and network, I think they're as deserving of making a profit from it as the portrait photographer down the street.
Yes, people have rights even when organized into corportations. (Almost said that corporations have rights--a serious slip of the keyboard!)