Right to Privacy Law

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Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Company:
Copyright and Public Access

Public Access or Public Interest?
What is public information and what kinds of information are copyrighted? In the age of the Internet where literally millions of pages of documents are available through the use of a modem, a search engine, and a browser, this is a question that needs to be answered. Why?

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"Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Company:
Copyright and Public Access

Public Access or Public Interest?
What is public information and what kinds of information are copyrighted? In the age of the Internet where literally millions of pages of documents are available through the use of a modem, a search engine, and a browser, this is a question that needs to be answered. Why? Because what may be legally defined as public information vis-?-vis a database, might in some way be protected under the law. It might be convenient to be able access all the names and phone numbers of out-of-town relatives from a computer desktop. But by doing so, is the letter of the law being violated in reference to our right to privacy? What information..."

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