On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 18:03:15 UTC, Stan Shebs
<shebs(a)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!)