{"id":2338,"date":"2009-01-19T20:16:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T01:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2009-01-19T20:16:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T01:16:26","slug":"american-history-sorry-hbo-owns-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/19\/american-history-sorry-hbo-owns-it\/","title":{"rendered":"American History?  Sorry, HBO Owns It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t criticize the Presidential Inauguration Commission&#8217;s decision to sell HBO exclusive rights to broadcast the We Are One concert because I thought that was a reasonable compromise between free public access and the very high levels of private contributions that would otherwise be required.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But then HBO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2009\/01\/hbo-owns-obamas-inaugural-concert-if.html\">decided that they were going to use copyright law to make sure that most Americans couldn&#8217;t witness this piece of history<\/a> without their permission.\u00c2\u00a0 That absolutely amazing moment on the Mall <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/18\/this-land-was-made-for-you-and-me-we-sang-the-whole-song\/\">I posted about<\/a>, led by Pete Seeger?\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry, no longer available to you.\u00c2\u00a0 HBO owns it.<\/p>\n<p>Your history, copyright HBO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t criticize the Presidential Inauguration Commission&#8217;s decision to sell HBO exclusive rights to broadcast the We Are One concert because I thought that was a reasonable compromise between free public access and the very high levels of private contributions that would otherwise be required.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But then HBO decided that they were going to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-law","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}