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Legislation: A Lucrative Investment
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Attention All Billionaires:
If you're like most of us, you're always looking for higher returns on your investments. And while you may
be familiar with stocks and bonds, currency speculation, IPOs, and all the rest, there's a new investment
arena you really ought to be aware of: Legislation.
If a mutual fund returns 20% a year, that's considered unbelievably good. But in the low-risk, high return
world of legislation, a 20% return is positively lousy. Why, there's no reason why your investment dollar
can't return 60,000, 70,000, even 80,000%!
Here's how it works: With the help of a professional legislation broker (called a Lobbyist), you place your
investment (called a Campaign Contribution) with a carefully selected list of legislation manufacturers
(called Members of Congress). These manufacturers then go to work writing legislation: crafting industry-
specific subsidies, inserting tax breaks into the tax code, extending patents, or giving away public property
for free. In an assembly-line process that would make Henry Ford proud, the legislation is produced, and
you (and your favorite industry) reap the benefits! The effect on your bottom line is immediate and huge.
Just check out these results:
Contributor (Investor)
Campaign Contributions (Investment)
Legislation or Administrative Action
Date
Payoff in govt contracts, reduced costs, higher prices for consumers, or shift in tax burden
Return on Investment
Source
Halliburton
$2,379,792 1990-2002
Logistics contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan
2002-03
$2,329,040,891
97,767%
Center for Public Integrity, Windfalls of War Oct. 30, 2003.
Bechtel
$3,310,102 1990-2002
Infrastructure construction contracts in Iraq
2002-03
$1,029,833,000
31,012%
Center for Public Integrity, Windfalls of War Oct. 30, 2003.
Airline Industry
$16 million 1991-2001
Airline bailout
Sept. 2001
$15 billion
93,650%
Common Cause, The $16 Million Soft Landing, Jan 10, 2002
Drug Companies
$44 million since 1999
Prescription drug coverage in Medicare reform bill.
Nov. 2003
$139 billion in increased profits
315,809%
Public Campaign, Ouch #123, The Big Medicare Fix, Nov. 20, 2003.
Agribusiness
$59.3 million in 2000 election cycle
Farm Bill
Feb. 2002
$40 billion in increased subsidies for large farms
67,354%
Public Campaign, Ouch #98, The Farmer in the Till, May 3, 2002.
Wealthy Americans
$1.8 billion 1999-2002
2001 Tax Cut
May 2001
$769 billion in tax cuts for top 10%
42,622%
Public Campaign, State of the Union Poster, Jan. 21, 2003
50 Biggest Corporate Tax Avoiders
$151 million, 1991 -2001
Various tax breaks
Various
$55 billion in tax breaks from 1996-1998 alone
36,323%
Public Campaign, State of the Union Poster, Jan. 21, 2003
Oil, Gas, Coal and Nuclear Industries
$71.8 million since 1999
Tax breaks, subsidies, and MTBE pollution indemnification in Energy bill.
Pending
$49 billion
68,145%
Public Campaign, Ouch #122, Crude Politics in Energy Bill, Nov. 17, 2003.
If you can get this kind of return when you buy a few congressmen, just imagine what you get
when you buy the President. Don't wait. Invest now, and let the paybacks roll in for the next
four years.
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TO: Members of the Faculty, Hoover Institution Fellows,
Academic Staff, and Library Directors
FROM: Condoleezza Rice, Provost
RE: Copyright Reminder
October 30, 1998
This memorandum provides a general description of the applicability of the
copyright law and the so-called "fair use" exemptions to the copyright law's general
prohibition on copying. It also describes "safe harbor" guidelines applicable to
classroom copying.
The federal copyright statute governs the reproduction of works of authorship. In
general, works governed by copyright law include such traditional works of
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software, multimedia, and databases. Copyrighted works are protected regardless
of the medium in which they are created or reproduced; thus, copyright extends to
digital works and works transformed into a digital format. Copyrighted works are
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Two provisions of the copyright statute are of particular importance to teachers and
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* a provision that codifies the doctrine of "fair use," under which limited copying of
copyrighted works without the permission of the owner is allowed for certain
teaching and research purposes; and
* a provision that establishes special limitations and exemptions for the
reproduction of copyrighted works by libraries and archives.
The concept of fair use is necessarily somewhat vague when discussed in the
abstract. Its application depends critically on the particular facts of the individual
situation. Neither the case law nor the statutory law provides bright lines concerning
which uses are fair and which are not. However, you may find it helpful to refer to
certain third party source materials. Guidelines for classroom copying by
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the Authors League of America, the Association of American Publishers, and an ad
hoc committee of educational institutions and organizations. In addition, fair use
guidelines for educational multimedia have been prepared by a group coordinated
by the consortium of College and University Multimedia Centers (CCUMC).
These guidelines describe safe harbor conditions, but do not purport to define the
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The guidelines, as well as other source material, are available through a variety of
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Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources, in collaboration
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the use of copyrighted material by individuals, libraries, and educational institutions.
I hope that the discussion below helps to clarify further the nature of "fair use."
I. Fair Use for Teaching and Research
The "fair use" doctrine allows limited reproduction of copyrighted works for
educational and research purposes. The relevant portion of the copyright statue
provides that the "fair use" of a copyrighted work, including reproduction "for
purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for
classroom use), scholarship, or research" is not an infringement of copyright. The
law lists the following factors as the ones to be evaluated in determining whether a
particular use of a copyrighted work is a permitted "fair use," rather than an
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* the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a
commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
* the nature of the copyrighted work;
* the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted
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* the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted
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Although all of these factors will be considered, the last factor is the most important
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copying of all or a significant portion of the work in lieu of purchasing or licensing a
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A federal appeals court recently decided an important copyright fair use case
involving coursepacks. In Princeton University Press, et.al. v. Michigan Document
Services, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded that the
copying of excerpts from books and other publications by a commercial copy
service without the payment of fees to the copyright holders to create coursepacks
for university students was not fair use. The size of the offending excerpts varied
from 30 percent to as little as 5 percent of the original publications. Although the
opinion in this case is not binding in California, it is consistent with prior cases from
other courts, and there is a reasonable likelihood that the California federal courts
would reach a similar conclusion on similar facts.
Where questions arise, we suggest that you consult the guidelines for classroom
copying and other available source material available on the fair use web site, cited
above. Please note that the guidelines are intended to state the minimum, not the
maximum, extent of the fair use doctrine. Thus, just because your use is not within
the guidelines, it is it not necessarily outside the scope of fair use. In the absence of
a definitive conclusion, however, if the proposed use deviates from the guidelines,
you should consider obtaining permission to use the work from the copyright
owner. In instances where the fair use question is important and permission would
be difficult or expensive to obtain, a member of the Fair Use Advisory Group
(described below) or the Legal Office can assist in analyzing whether a particular
proposed use would constitute "fair use."
Some photocopying services will obtain copyright permission and add the price of
the royalties, if any, to the price of the materials. A request to copy a copyrighted
work should generally be sent to the permission department of the publisher of the
work. Permission requests should contain the following:
* Title, author, and/or editor, and edition
* Exact material to be used, giving page numbers or chapters
* Number of copies to be made
* Use to be made of the copied materials
* Form of distribution (classroom, newsletter, etc.)
* Whether the material is to be sold
Draft form letters can be obtained from or reviewed by a member of the Fair Use
Advisory Group or the Legal Office.
For certain works, permission may also be sought from the Copyright Clearance
Center (CCC) which will quote a charge for works for which they are able to give
permission. The Copyright Clearance Center can be contacted at
www.copyright.com or (978) 750-8400, but it may be easier to go through a
copying service that deals regularly with the CCC.
II. Course Reserves
Some libraries at Stanford will refuse to accept multiple photocopies or to make
photocopies of copyrighted materials needed for course reserves without first
having permission from the copyright holder. Other libraries on campus will accept
a limited number of photocopies for course reserves. Consult individual libraries for
clarification of their policies.
While the libraries have blanket permission from dozens of journals, obtaining
permission sometimes takes a good deal of time. Experience in obtaining
permission has shown that an inquiry addressed to a journal publisher frequently
produces information that the copyright is actually held by the author, and four
weeks is often inadequate to obtain such permission. Four to six weeks is
considered the norm.
Permission may be obtained in a number of ways:
* Upon request, some libraries on campus will obtain materials for course reserve.
In these cases, the librarian will write to obtain permission to photocopy or to
purchase reprints. However, most libraries do not provide this service.
* Written permission may be obtained by the academic department.
* Oral permission may be obtained by faculty members, departmental secretaries,
or library staff, in which case a written record is needed of that action.
Note that filling course reserve requirements may require two to three months
before the quarter begins if the library does not already have a copy of the
publication, if the publication is out of print, or if the copyright holder is not readily
available.
III. Resources
Additional information on copyright issues may be found on the world wide web
Questions about the copyright law as it affects faculty and staff in their University
capacities should be directed to a member of the Fair Use Advisory Group (see
attachment) or to Linda Woodward in the Legal Office (3-9751), who can put you
in touch with the appropriate lawyer to respond to your specific question.
Questions about library policy and course reserves should be addressed to Assunta
Pisani, Associate Director, University Libraries (apisani@sulmail or 3-5553).
Information concerning the application of copyright law to computer software can
be found in the memorandum "Copying of Computer Software" distributed by the
Library and Information Resources and in Administrative Guide Memorandum 62.
Thank you for your cooperation in ensuring the observation of these guidelines.
