| Show 14 A ft “ -— The Salt Lake Tribune - — — Sunday January - 4 1987 Point ol Law Copyrights Allow copyrighted work cannot be without the permission of Hi$ author or other copyright holder the copyright law does allow howev- for the "fair use " of copyrighted material for such purposes as criticism comment news reporting teaching scholarship and research 5 It works like this CF air A Use "Ah the shoe is on the other foot is “Well it depends on what you're using it for as well as how much you take If the radio news reporter uses your newspaper as a lead for a story and then goes out and reports the story himself and does a tape interview and so forth then he’s probably not infringing on your copyright If he reads your stories over the air right out of the Times-Gazetthen he is infringing on your copyright The local radio stations are af- it” Carruthers said Edward McDonough ft te Edward McDonough is a lawyer practicing in Salt Lake City is this 'Ode to a Park Pigeon ?" Car- 1 ’ When Tracy Newsome the publisher and editor of the Times-Gazett- e ruthers asked “Two pages out ot about 50” Tracy answered "When you collect all of Pearl's poetical works you don’t have joined her lawyer Sam Carruthers at the corner booth in the Jibber-Jab-bCafe she brought with her a letter from an irate author “1 need your advice Judge” Tracy said "Pearl lje is hopping mad over our review last Sunday of The Collected Poems of Pearl Poe Pearl says she's going tO sue the Times-Gazett- e because the review poked fun at her poetic style and because we reprinted her pbem "Ode to a Park Pigeon" in its entirety She says we’ve violated the cOpyright laws and have diminished the market for her work Pearl published the Colleted Poems herself Fhit she did properly copyright it“ '"How much of the collected works “You’re probably OK then" Carruthers said “You may have diminished the market for the Collected Poems by pointing out that they aren't inspired But you're entitled to tell your readers what you think of a book when you're writing a review And because the poem you selected as an example is less than 5 percent of the book Pearl can’t say you’ve damaged the market for her book by providing an alternate source for most of the publication " "How much can you take from a copyrighted work Judge?” Tracy asked “How much of my newspaper can the radio newsman borrow0" ft a whole lot” ter all competing with the Times-Gazettin the news business" e “And it wouldn't be fair for them to just steal my stories in the name of news reporting” Tracy said “Exactly” Carruthers said “The 'fair use' doctrine of copyright law that’s now written into the Copyright Act grew up from court cases that had to decide what was fair in using material from a copyrighted source in some activity that was in the public interest such as reporting the news or teaching or even publishing sarcastic reviews of books of poetry " An American Tail The Public Forum (Point of Law is published for information purposes only and should not be used as legal advice You should see your own lawyer for specific legal opinion) Tribune Readers’ Opinions Asks Float Trip I am another dissatisfied customer am in complete agreement with the letter of David Smith (Forum Dec 19) Gov Bangerter is trying his best to fill even to overflowing the part of Utah’s finest in fat foolish and futile leadership What a joke he is Of course nothing is his fault He is not (and hopefully will remain not) responsible for anything He is a totally incompetent and irresponsible boob Our only hope is that our Legislature will stuff him into a large barrel and float him out to the Bangerter Wild Wave on the west desert Then for the duration we will muddle through perhaps even aspiring to levels of leadership far above “the I Common Carrier 155 Speed 3 By Elva Stark I Will Rogers often began his words of wisdom with “All I know is just vvnat I read in the papers” Today’s news of traffic accidents ajid fatalities is overwhelming Charles F Livingston of the National Itighway Traffic Safety Administration reported at the Utah Governor's 1980 Conference on Highway Safety "Motor vehicle crashes now rank as the fourth leading cause of death in Ibis country They are the number ofie killer of persons under age 35 Fifty thousand people a year are killed in traffic accidents (That is more deaths In one year than the Carrier author is Mrs Eiva Stark of Salt Lake City She Hits been a safety volunteer for 35 years Mrs Stark was State PTA safety chairman she worked on driver education legislation and was the only woman on the Governor's Advi- Today's Common rAy5£v sory Board for Driver Education Mrs Stark was a founder and adult chairman of Utah's Youth Safety Conference and Operation Follow-u- p for 20 years She was the 1975 Utah Mother of the Year For 16 years she was reference librarian at the University of Utah Library The views expressed in the article are the personal views of the author 4f000 Vietnam War dead from January 1961 to January 27 1973) We have been so successful in curbing disease that some medical authorities now believe that accident prevention is the first priority for lowering mor-bitand mortality rates especially for young people c'The 55 mph speed limit enacted diring the Arab oil embargo has proved to be the single most effective sa'fety measure ever introduced in this country Even though current compliance is only 50 percent the speed limit is still saving some 5000 liyes each year” Mr Livingston said The author of a recent Common Carrier article "Give Green Light to Higher Speed" is misinformed He is Utah's representative for the Citizen Coalition for Rational Traffic Laws a national organization formed by a national lobbyist for trucking and other transportation interests for the sole purpose of repealing the national 55 mph speed limit He calls the 55 mph layv a "farce" because people do not obey it What bedlam we would have if all the laws people do not obey were discarded! He writes "Let’s look closer at the fallacious idea " speed kills 3'News from the Utah Highway Patrol" comments "Speed kills! And you know what0 It's true Ask any state trooper about accident investi y Limit Saves Lives gations Death and injury ride in fast cars Be a sensible defensive and responsible driver Observe speed limits and you’ll save precious lives As your vehicle speed increases so does the chance of an accident occurring So you decide — 55 or 75? — when on a long stretch of freeway Don’t let speed control you You are the driver! Have your vehicle under control to do what you want it to do” have been known as “Knights of the Road" are concerned about today’s wildcat truck drivers who are terror- izing America's highways US News & World Report Nov 10 1986 says “Trucking accidents jumped 26 percent in just two years to 39000 in 1985 with nearly 2700 persons killed and 29000 injured last year There were sleepy drivers driving trucks with no brakes driving longer hours faster taking drugs and alcodriving Utah Traffic Accident Summary hol Between 1980 and 1985 the numfor 1985 reports “In 1985 speeding ber of trucking firms nearly doubled was the leading contributing circumto 33000 while the annual haul of stance of fatal crashes 24 8 percent freight last year was less than in 978 Drinking is noted as contributing factor for 21 percent of the drivers (The Under tough competition pressure victims ofj 75 percent of Utah's fatal some few drivers and companies avoid maintenance and operate in a crashes were males Of the drivers way that is not safe" Nowadays involved 24 3 percent were under age some trucks are carrying hazardous 25 and male They are over involved materials and it is disastrous when in fatal crashes” they are involved in an accident From "The Utah Poll" in The Suit "55: A Decade of Experience" by the Transportation Research Board Lake Tribune “More women say to assist Congress in setting policy on they are now fastening their seat the 55 mph national speed limit rebelts than men Women also are opposed to abolishing the 55 mph speed ports “The chief cost of the 55 mph limit while men are for getting rid of speed limit additional travel time means that each average highit" way user spends an average of about Words a “Three from for Quoting seven minutes more per hour on the Bad Driver” which appeared in The road than if driving had continued at Tribune “He doesn't understand 1973 speed Some motorists particuthat reckless driving is not manly hethe elderly prefer to drive in larly roic adventurous or macho Bad moderately paced traffic streams is The and driving dangerous stupid “The additional travel time caused late Jack Webb looked at a young tearful teen-age- r after he turned his by the 55 mph speed limit is most ear into a weapon and killed a woman frustrating to long distance truck pedestrian ‘You threw 10 tons of tin drivers intercity bus drivers travelat 72 miles an hour at a 98 pound ing salesmen repairmen and others woman She's dead but maybe you who expend far more time driving on high speed highways than the nationoughta be' A real man is considerate al average The economic cost of adand polite" ditional travel time is partly offset by Thousands of truck drivers who reduced fuel maintenance and insurance costs and as a result most trucking firms support the 55 mph speed limit” In 1956 Utah’s first Annual Teenage Traffic Safety Conference and in their high Operation Follow-U- p schools convened in the Utah State Capitol The high school delegates whose slogan was “Slow Down and Live" explored traffic accident problems and made recommendations for their solution These recommendations were presented to our governors and legislators Many became laws Utah's Young Safety Conference continued for 20 years until 1976 when our legislators developed a negative attitude toward traffic safety and undid much of what we had accomplished Utah was one of three states not to pass a full helmet law for motorcyclists thus not complying with the national law and so lost some federal highway money Utah was one of the last states to pass a child restraint law Our seat belt law is ineffective Elva Stark Devious ways of circumventing the 55 mph speed law to get federal highway money is dishonest Utah’s Teen-Ag- e Traffic Safety Conference delegates recommended “to better control the problem of alsociate chairman for undecohol and the young driver plastic driver license cards with photorgraduate studies in the liUniversity of Utah department graphs replace the “Grand-daddof mechanical and industrial censes” sent by mail without any tests and good for one's lifetime They engineering recommended better eye stricter The board seeks articles written and driver from all segments of the comtests tests are eye Today required munity only of older drivers a written test is Articles need not be profesrequired only for one’s first license — sionally prepared but should be unless one's driver license has exabout three and a half pages pired or if the driver is involved in a double spaced typed copy traffic accident There are Utah drivThey should pertain to the ecoers who have never had a wellnomic political and social test We are back to mail order being of the Intermountain driver licenses I rea Articles should be timely I believe the 55 mph speed limit have a basic idea promote dialaw is saving lives because it is the be and logue challenging United States law Let’s keep it Sen " open letters "are not acWilliam Proxmire said "Apceptable proval of the 65 mph law would mean Material should be mailed to that we are signing the death warCommon Carrier The Salt Lake rants of many men women and chilTribune PO Box 867 Salt Lake dren a year and in effect we will be City Utah 84110 accessories to the maiming of thousands of others” Norm " FRANCIS NEWBOLD Aid the Children I was pleased to read your coverage of the UNICEF 1987 State of the World’s Children report (UNICEF Asks Aid for Dying Children Tribune Dec 15) It’s shocking to learn that 280000 children are dying needcauses lessly from hunger-relate- d each week This “silent emergency” is more serious than the famine in Africa that has received so much publicity In fact more children have died in Pakistan and India in the past two years than in all of the 46 drought-stricke- n countries in Africa I want to commend our Utah senators and congressmen for their part in getting the 99th Congress to increase our contribution to UCI and other child survival activities The $75 million they allocated will help g pay for programs such as immunizations and oral rehydration therapy I urge the continued support by our government for full funding to save the world's children P ARCHIBALD-STON- ty commissioners who have opted to cut protective services such as firefighters and deputy sheriffs at the same time they are wasting public monies on portable beaches for Great Salt Lake beautifying the garbage! dump at a cost of hundreds of thou- sands of dollars while spending over $1 million on offices as a monument to their stupidity Our governor now comes forward! with tax increases that will put Utah as number one in taxes per capita all the while we are rated in the lowest 5 percent in per capita income Now he has proposed doubling the income tax' exemptions for large families from $750 to $1400 Dependents should be' disallowed for several years until we have someone in control who doesn't spend excess money for expensive meeting places and worthless trips to the Orient The prime example of why there should be a recall statute in Utah is General Wilkinson who Attorney feels he is above the public desires or wishes and that of the US Constituattortion while he pays ney fees in excess of $500000 while people starve in our depressed economy It doesn’t bother him a bit to watch the price fixing of gasoline’ along the Wasatch Front I have to“ assume he will join the law firm being used to combat pornography in the privacy of one’s own home after he leaves office — which I hope will be very soon JAMES F ALLEN E Forum Rules Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively tr The Tribune and bear writer’s lull name signature and address Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reason on others Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days Preference will be given to short typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writer’s true name All letters are subject to condensation Mail to the Public Forum The Salt Lake Tribune 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