http://www.waltmire.com/blog/archives/2007/03/03/now-on-the-web-il-legislative-debates-back-through-1971/ Patent Law :: Focusing on Software and Electronic Arts Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:39:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.waltmire.com/blog/archives/2007/03/03/now-on-the-web-il-legislative-debates-back-through-1971/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Eric Waltmire’s Blog » Copy Protected General Assembly Transcripts? Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:18:53 +0000 http://www.waltmire.com/blog/archives/2007/03/03/now-on-the-web-il-legislative-debates-back-through-1971/#comment-72 [...] Here you can access transcripts of the Illinois House and Senate floor debates going back to 1997 1971 (change noted here). The transcripts are in PDF format. On occasion I include an excerpt from a transcript in my work. But I can’t copy and paste from the PDFs because they are set to prohibit copying. Check it out for yourself. Why is the copy function blocked on the PDF transcript files? I suppose its not as bad as the U.S. Constitution that you can’t print. [...] [...] Here you can access transcripts of the Illinois House and Senate floor debates going back to 1997 1971 (change noted here). The transcripts are in PDF format. On occasion I include an excerpt from a transcript in my work. But I can’t copy and paste from the PDFs because they are set to prohibit copying. Check it out for yourself. Why is the copy function blocked on the PDF transcript files? I suppose its not as bad as the U.S. Constitution that you can’t print. [...]

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