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Such a defense, if successful, would have also introduced a novel meaning of copyright law as it applies to digital media. Nesson's argument, Gertner said, would have legalized any downloading of copyrighted material so long as it was used for a person's private enjoyment...
...President hopes to get health care done in the fall, he will need the support of all 8 million supporters on his e-mail lists and many, many more. The White House is clearly trying to change the terms of the debate; during the press conference, Obama borrowed an argument from Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post by warning that the bigger risk lies in not passing health-care reform, since the status quo promises only higher costs and less coverage. Over the weekend, Obama also tried to counter the notion that reform will add costs to small-business employers...
Much of the argument is highly technical. Neither the complainant's nor the defendant's mother tongue is English. Observers without legal training might be forgiven for thinking the attorneys were also speaking a foreign language. Here's Popplewell again: "The amended pleadings are put forward in substitution to those that are currently pleaded and are abandoned ... On the amended pleading what is said is either 1995 rights, 1996 rights or if either of those is of no legal effect, restitution rights...
...Tsvangirai succeeds in having sanctions on Mugabe lifted, that will simply strengthen his rival's argument that the reason Zimbabwe's economy has collapsed is because of "evil sanctions" imposed by the West...
...purchase of more F-22s (beyond the 187 already acquired) was opposed by Obama, Gates, the Air Force leadership and the Senate's top military experts. That forced the F-22's backers to rely on less influential supporters - and reasons - to buy more planes: arguments from second-tier officers, imaginary threats and the most potent argument of all these days: 25,000 well-paying jobs. "This is a critically important program to maintain superiority - not parity, but superiority - which has always been our goal in protecting our national-security interests," argued Democratic Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, whose state...