be written. And Ford Foundation funded six really talented lawyers and we were there to help write these statutes . And the strength that NRDC brought to the environmental movement was that we were able to write these statutes and then we were able to get the rules and regulationsthat we used to enforce those statutes and make them strong.
We know the impact has been tremendous from our own lawyers' experiences. The statute is clear, and she steeled herself.
monopolies in England the in short the statute on monopolies prohibited the crown from issuing monopolies to anybody so these the word patent really is a is a term that covered every kind of thing in the
We're saying there's a pattern here where people of color don't get to live as long or aren't as safe in certain circumstances, government statutes and things like that-- so it can speak to a sovereign status rather than a cultural group.
Now when she walked up to the statute , she ran her finger along those cracks and they were sharp; they'd been recently made. Ancient statutes with ancient breaks wear down over time and so they wouldn't be sharp breaks like that. Well, all of these things were a clear indication that this statute had been recently found and judging by the fact that it was an acrolith, it must have been found in southern Italy
We know the impact has been tremendous from our own lawyers' experiences. And she had a statute , and she was convinced that this statute made clear that the judge couldn't detain this young man.
And so the idea that the rules and regulations that are set in the United States and the norms, that which is considered to be acceptable or unacceptable independent of regulation and statute , the idea that our country, which constitutes fewer than 5% of the globe's population, is going to be able to dictate what the 95% of the rest of the world thinks, does, and accepts, is naive.
He's working on a statue of a fallen Roman god, except the teeth aren't quite right. It's an older statute , an older god, but the teeth are all new and perfect. And Lorenzo says, kid.
She has been with the ACLU for quite some time, and I was very excited to meet her, because she led New York's successful effort to pass Marriage Equality Statute . And then served as the co-counsel on the Windsor versus United States case, which eventually was the case that the Supreme Court held in determining that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional.
Well, first of all, the buckets are not at our discretion. They're in statute , so we have $4 billion in play for renewables and efficiency. For example, as one example-- let me say, we're open for business.
She had her breath taken away when she saw this; nothing like this existed anywhere else in the world. This is an acrolithic statute which means that it's made of two different materials; you'll see that the head and the arms are made out of a white marble, that's Parian Marble from the Green island of Paros; it's one of the finest marbles there is.
Well, the answer to Harold Williams question, "Are we willing to buy stolen property for some higher aim?" the answer was yes. The Getty bought the Statute of Aphrodite for $18 million, it was a record price at the time and American museums kept buying looted antiquities really for the next few decades.
of that paint has survived antiquity. And here is the Statute of Aphrodite; never shown in the Medici Polaroids, but through really shoe leather detective work by Italian investigators, by Getty's own investigators,
On October 27th, 1998, I became a copyright activist the day President Clinton signed into law a statute in honor of this great American, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act--a statute which extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years. Now, the question Congress was supposed to be asking when it passed that statute was, "Would it advance the public good to extend the term of an existing copyright by 20 years?"
patent over plain paper copying when that first came out that would be a powerful tool reason for the statute of monopolies to stop the crown from controlling the
imagine many of you work, which is the communications space. So there are statutes , there are regulations, and those are good when it comes to accommodating. But I actually think that what's more important for us to get the significance of this evangelized throughout organizations as large
And this has always troubled me enormously, because I remember all of this. There are statutes that say that a state must have a mechanism whereby new evidence of innocence
Talk a little bit about that. It wasn't statutes being passed.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. There won't be a statute of limitations.
and others could have indicated a second or third choice. we vote in single-member districts by statute .
Every single state has an anti-cruelty statute that forbids malicious treatment of individual animals.
But I figure there must be a statute of limitations on that.
for choreographic works in our copyright statute in the United States.
I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations is up.
And if you look at the limestone body of the statute you'll see that there are two prominent break points: one in the waist and another at the knees. Now when she walked up to the statute , she ran her finger along those cracks and they were sharp; they'd been recently made. Ancient statutes with ancient breaks wear down over time and so they wouldn't be sharp breaks like that.
The Aphrodite was under proposal at the time, it was being considered for acquisition, but Walsh and Williams would tell you that they were considering a new acquisition policy for the Getty not the Statute of Aphrodite. So keep that in mind as we read John Walsh's handwritten notes from the meeting.
Because after a certain point the statute of limitations on nudity ends, you know. It's fine. So I do that and then just for good measure, Larry King-I always put Larry King
Park and there's a statute of a guy named Rudolph Agassiz sitting there and-and directly in front of him is a big piece of copper and it's about the size of this screen here but
is in these different sets of statutes . And nuclear is in these different sets of statutes . And nuclear reactors are regulated under something called Part 50. And there's a
And they are not protected from statutes against being shackled.
So those are the interesting art theft statutes that have been around for a long time.
It's the idea behind statutes that you are probably very familiar with like the Fair Credit Reporting Act,
that some of the existing statutes are being uh litigated um these issues are
Then the courts invalidated those states statutes , invalidated federal laws that discriminated.
statutes . And the strength that NRDC brought to the environmental movement was that we were able to write these statutes and then we were able to get the rules and regulationsthat we used to enforce those statutes and make them strong. And not only did we work on the rules and regulations, but then, immediately, the industrial sector came in and tried to get an advantage under the rules and regulations, and we then
doing that um run up against statutes or policies or practices that you know we
- But, if the Rome Statute will be accepted by your government before this moment...
So we stopped the whole criminal enterprise using that statute -- the Hobbs Act robbery statute .
Now, there's no statute of limitations, basically.
I just wonder whether you think there should be some statute of limitations for some of these crimes?
Then states that had a general animal cruelty statute , where malicious cruelty was treated as a felony.
If we could have a more friendly copyright statute , that would be very, very helpful to creating something that would be approaching
neighborhood of Battersea and he took her to this big warehouse, this kind of run down area of town, and he opened up the door and turned on the lights and this is what Marion True saw: it was a seven and a half foot Cult Statute of a Goddess. She had her breath taken away when she saw this; nothing like this existed anywhere else in the world.
Well, there were other things that were also immediately clear about the statute . If you look at these photographs of the statute before restoration you see that before she was cleaned up she was a little bit dirty. On her face, you can see the encrustation, that's not acne she has that's actual dirt that's been encrusted there over the centuries.
On her face, you can see the encrustation, that's not acne she has that's actual dirt that's been encrusted there over the centuries. And if you look at the limestone body of the statute you'll see that there are two prominent break points: one in the waist and another at the knees. Now when she walked up to the statute , she ran her finger along those cracks and they were sharp; they'd been recently made.
of origin. If there were any doubts about it those doubts needed to be investigated thoroughly. Well, investigating the Statute of Aphrodite thoroughly would only bring trouble and so they created a new policy, one that would allow for the acquisition of the Statute of Aphrodite. This policy would basically put the onus of proving that the statute was looted not on the Getty Museum but on someone else, anyone else.
problem but one important aspect to this problem is a statute called the bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and consumer
copyrights Advance the public good and when we challenge the statute in the
as possible. Statute of Anne set its own set of rules.
We were not allowed in jets because of the Federal statutes in place at the time that prohibited women flying in combat aircraft, and all jets