Reese wrote:
>>What about if I purchase the Navaho module for my Dragon
>>Dictate, voice input software, and have it translate the conversations I
>>capture from by back porch?
>>
>IANAL. This may fall under illegal eavesdropping, whether you make a
>recording MayOrMayNot be a determining factor. Check with your local
>authority figures.
IAANAL, but I suspect that anything like this, including satellite
broadcasts, is just waiting for some defendant with a whole lot of money to
prosecute all the way up to the Supreme Court. My thought, based on what I
understand of the law, is that anything that cannot be specifically owned by
someone (i.e. not a physical object and not protected IP), once it enters
your property, it is yours to do with as you see fit as long as you don't
try to sell it or otherwise profit from it. This, of course, is not the
current legal view, but I think that the legal view of this situation will
eventually change.
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