copyright case in that it is a copyright case about textbooks. jim. >> mr. kirtsaeng in 1997 moved from his native thailand to attend cornell university. textbooks are sold in thailand for just a fraction of the cost. so he gets his family and friends to buy those textbooks in thailand and guess what, ship them to him in cornell university. he sells them on ebay and makes, get this, $1.2 million in profits. >> what? >> stephen: 1.2 million dollars, it that textbook price, that has to be like eight books. but academic publisher wiley and son sued sit kaening-- kirtsaeng saying they own the copyright of that resold material despite a 1908 court decision which established the first sale doctrine which says that after a buyer first purchases a copyrighted work he or she has the right to resell it. i'm sorry, i don't buy this first sale argument. and if i did buy it i would not resell it. (laughter) because i don't have the right. yeah. damn straight. and i don't even know what never's clapping for. (laughter) but god help us, if the u.s. supreme cour

the scheme centered around stolen textbooks, all caught on tape. shomari stone joins us with more on this crime. >> reporter: well, federal prosecutors tell me that these thieves worked here at the university's bookstore across the street and they stole hundreds of books from there and recruited a man well-known on campus who sold hot dogs like this one for two decades. look at this video at george washington university's bookstore. campus police set up cameras after thousands of dollars in textbooks went missing last december. federal prosecutors say darrelle coleman shown in the dark shirt and apron places the new books on a table. kyle puts the books in boxes,s in the red shirt. and another man police say is also involved. the boxes are dropped off at the bookstore's loading box and the well-known hot dog vendor picks it up. prosecutors fell us this scheme went on from december 13, 2010, to january 19, 2011. today a jury found the group guilty of conspiracy and theft, stealing -- get this -- $200,000 in textbooks. >> it's like they were stealing

what makes you think we can never get to this kind of truth in a textbook? >> we have made some progress. in the 1980's and 1990's, they did introduce elements of multiculturalism, the kind of triumph ant history is not there anymore. oliver's dollars textbook is so bad on the atomic bomb that it is unconscionable -- olivers sexpot is so bad on the atomic bomb that is unconscionable. tavis: the top line of the book and the view of this year is it will get, there are major moments in history. i want to jump back last night. we started the show last night with a quip about henry wallace. -- with a clip about henry wallace. >> most of the viewers and most americans have no idea who henry wallace was. he has been wiped clean of the history books. henry wallace was the secretary of the agriculture in a 18 -- in the 1930's and roosevelt tapped him in 1940 and he wanted a progressive. in 1944, wallace had stood for a lot of progressive ideas. the united states has too dumb and intellectually, economically, militarily -- the united states has to dominate intellectua

should and could say and i am not a textbook writer and not a textbook critics specifically. but there is a problem, i grew up with books that didn't include any of the non-white european models so certainly when i was writing "don't know much about history: everything you need to know about american history but never learned" that was looking at the underrepresentation. in recent years there has been a sense that american history hasn't included the stories of the asians and the hispanic americans who have come to the country. one of the things i started to do when i wrote one of my more recent books untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation". i was trying to get more of a history of the spanish america, talking about columbus in 1492 but certainly we know about cortez in mexico but what about the spanish in what became the united states of america and this is where i discovered what i thought was an extraordinary story that had never been told, certainly not to me, the story of the real first pilgrims in america. they wer

student from the university of southern california who resold a foreign edition textbooks to american students for less than the us version cost the books publishers john wiley and sons won a copyright lawsuit six hundred thousand dollars against him soup up however appealed to the case the u.s. supreme court drawing attention from groups like costco and e bay both of which claim that they would be severely affected by a ruling that could drastically change international commerce so let's break this down a bit and the u.s. the law is such that once a seller sells a product the purchaser has the right to resell the product this is known as first sale doctrine meaning the product manufacturer only has control of the first sale of the product well that's pretty straightforward right well the case gets a little messy because the lower courts say that this rule doesn't apply if the goods are produced overseas this is why the supreme court's decision will be so important that the position is taken by the lower courts as upheld what would happen a textbook retailers and more broadly what wou

everybody used textbook but use goods at a yard sale shop on e bay and it's probably everyone that i know well the us supreme court has taken on a case this president could make all the difference on how legal it is for you to buy use or form products without violating copyright laws it all begins with one man souped up curtseying a ph d. student from the university of southern california who resold it for an edition textbooks to american students for less than the us version cost the books publishers john wiley and sons want to copyright lawsuit six hundred thousand dollars against him sue pop however appealed to the case in the u.s. supreme court drawing attention from groups like costco and e bay both of which claim that they would be severely affected by a ruling that could drastically change your. national commerce so let's break this down a bit in the u.s. the law is such that once a seller sells a product the purchaser has the right to resell the product this is known as first sale doctrine mean the product manufacturer only has control of the first sale of the product well th

i did hear complaints and each with my own child actually had to request a textbook twice to get one. there is any information about that. >> well, this report deals with the 20 schools that are framed in -- 1 through 3. we also have auditors that will be going out to inspect the rest of the schools that are not in the 28 schools that are subject throughout the year. any new complaints that come in are addressed through my office, and also the textbookswzñ?ñ? of. >> off line if somebody could get me information on that, tha? was a widespread problem or just isolated to a couple of schools. thanks. >> no more? roll call please. >> thank you. ms. lee, yes. ms. wong, yes. ms. fewer, yes. ms. maufas, yes. ms. mendoza, yes. dr. murase, aye. ms. norton, yes. ms. wynns, yes. mr. yee, yes. >> discussion on other educational matters tonight? >> i'm sorry. if i may take this moment i was just reminded when she mentioned something. during the commendation for the indian education program title 7, is it possible to ask the authors to add my name to that resolution. i know and i believe maybe the

i do feel that a flood of textbooks are written -- i mean, there is the jargon of the academy and textbooks are often written by one of the professors should be read by another set. so i would set myself aside from textbooks because i'm not writing for school audience. i have found over 20 years of doing this that the teachers latched on to my book because they did find kids responded to them. i can't speak in the sense of many educators talk about what the grade level or what reading level books are aimed at. i try to talk to people in the language standards and. this is certainly a question that is increasingly problematic for not only because of reading level, but because of pension stance. there is a piece of education last week that talked about the specific notion that technology because we are getting information in shorter and shorter bed is really changing the way the next generation thinks that processes information. i think that's a really, really big and important question and much bigger than the one i can answer personally. from my own is, i try and write and speak in a langua

you had this in the textbook. little pellets of hydrogen. take all these lasers-- [makes sound] --wham. brute force smash these things together. and that should work too. sustained reaction, more energy out than required to operate the lasers? begin with an n. no. why? it's not our time. kind of a loose way of putting it. and there's another way, too. they've done it altogether without brute force. and i'm talking about cold fusion. i'm not talking about the utah experiments that caused all this publicity in 1989. i'm talking about--1988, was it? 1988? 18-- 1989, yeah. i'm not talking about those reactions, which, of course, were sort of the more publicity stunt than anything else. i'm talking about the cold fusion that's muon-induced. see, here's a problem with that. let's get into that just a little bit. let's suppose i got this proton over here, and i want to this proton to fuse into that. well, once i get beyond the electron here, there's gonna be an enormous repulsion. very, very tough to do. okay? because this positive charges repel. b

the men stole $200,000 worth of textbooks from december of 2010 to january of 2011. >> feels like they're stealing from the university, and all the students who paid for the books originally. i don't think it's a good thing. >> one of the men will be sentenced next friday. the other three will be sentenced in january. >>> police are looking for two men they say robbed a recording studio right after recording a rap song there. ♪ police are looking for the men singing that song. it's called larry hoover. police say the robbery happened early yesterday morning at copy cats studio in laurel. police say the suspects got away with the victims' wallets and phones. no one was hurt. >>> the president of one of virginia's colleges says he's terribly disappointed with students' reactions to president obama's victory saturday night. the college claims students who were upset that obama won broke bottles and shouted racial slurs at the minority organizations. some students could face punishment for violating hampton sidney's code of conduct. >>> a very emotional response from president obama after his

and read the textbooks, and the history tech books, you'll be pri surprised. >> and there's a storyould happen when he was gone. it wouldn't paint him in a good light. and remember, we did a story here object on "the five," california wanted to start talking about the sexuality of-- >> who is gay, who is lesbian. >> who is gay and who is lesbian in history. nothing wrong with that, if you parents want their kids to get that education they should pay for it on their own, with schools basing bankruptcy and counties and districts, they should be taught the basics and they're not. >> it's the fault of the parents and grandparents and a huge percent of children in this country are raised by single parents and people don't have that much money and don't have the time or not interested to do it. i mean, it's got to be spread around to a the lot of different places, i think, not just the fault of the parents, dana. >> greg? >> greg. >> well, you know, tenure, tenure, there's no competition, in the world of academics, so, nobody has to, has to actually teach anything, except, you know, gende

a textbook stealing scam at a >>> lights, camera, traffic. this is a new one.ovie crew could slow down the morning rush. ♪ >>> and rapping robbers. this morning police want you to listen to a song to help them solve a crime. good morning. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. >>> firefighters surround the apartment complex in northwest washington after a fire breaks out. you could see flames and smoke coming from the rooftop of the watergate. there was minor damage to the pro roof of the penthouse. no word on what started the fire. >>> this morning we're talking about a welcome warmup. you won't feel it when you leave the house today. temperatures dipping overnight. fall back into the 30s. a return to normal or something better than normal is on its way. meteorologist tom kierein out in the cold on the storm team 4 weather deck to break it all down for us. hi, tom. >> i can't believe you're making me stand out here. eun said, tom you get out there. you forecasted it. we do have a clear sky now. off to the west, you can see jupiter still in the predawn glow.

tell the stories that the textbooks leave out. most americans had never heard of the longest, most costly war in american history, until vietnam, which was the seminole war fought in florida, so that was as gripping and astan issuing to people of that time as 9/11 was to us. pearl harbor was again. so each generation has had one of these moments, and we do forget that we've been through this before. obviously we're going through it right now in a sense. i'm a new yorker. i'm here in new york, and we are living through this extraordinary moment, and i just want to say briefly, thank you, to the people who are expressing such concern and care for new york and this region. we have a long way to go, and a lot to do. in fact on my way into the studio this more than i was remembering thomas jefferson's words when hi was inaugurated, we're all federalists, we're all democrats, or all republicans, and he was speaking to this moment when there was such division in the country, and this is why history can be so instructive. he was peeking t

we have completely left the story out of the textbooks.t famous woman in america, she was taken captive by indians in 1665. she killed her captors, and realized she could get a bounty for indian scalps. she made her way to boston where she was a heroine. they erected a statue to her. the first statue made to an american woman. >> cannas davis is our guest on sunday. he is the best-selling offcast -- author of the "don't know much" series. >> i have watched shows on the weekends or they are interviewing politicians, and the politicians are talking about what they are doing in congress and different legislation and different opinions. >> most recently i watched the debates. i was at work and wanted to see it and i knew it was on c-span. >> it usually drills down on the more important issues. it is not antagonistic. it does not have an agenda it is trying to push. >> i agree. it seems fair. and you get the real story there, there is not a commentary. >> i go there to get the news and the facts and get more details. not just headlines or talki

and so now you pick up a textbook or a standard history book on the founding, a government book, you'll find these things just stated as though this is the most obvious thing in the world. c-span: when did you first think about writing this book? >> guest: i started--i did a series of essays for the claremont institute, where i'm a senior fellow, in california in the early '90s on this topic. they were doing a series of events for high school teachers, and that's how it got started. and then when i decided to put them together in a book, i went over them, expanded them and really developed the argument in a way that it deserves to be stated. c-span: where's the claremont institute, and what does it do? >> guest: they're--well, they're a think tank--claremont, california, and they're devoted to the idea of restoring the principles of the declaration of independence in american life. many of the people associated with the institute are former students of harry jaffa, who was, for many years, a professor out there in the claremont mckenna college and graduate school. c-span: how big is it?

history textbooks.ollege textbooks, and what i found was that they all, almost without exclusion, share a certain similar falsehood like the rosenberg or sacco and vanzetti or one favorite one is transcontinental railroad never would have been built without government help and in fact, candidate or barack obama use that example when he was arguing for a computers are. we need to have the computers are because after all, the transcontinental's could not have been built without government help. excuse me, there's a guy named james j. hale and james j. hill hild built the northern pacific of road without a dime of government support and guess what? is the only one not to fail in the panic of 1873. all of the government supported railroad collapsed. my own students usually comes in me having not read them. i get constant e-mails from people that we had to read it in school and i hated it and thank god for your book and i am sure when we get those messages, and schweikart thank god for your book. it's intere

it's a clever title, but really what i did is look at the top 20 history textbooks, college textbooksand what i found was they all -- almost without exclusion -- shared certain similar just falsehoods like the rosenbergs were innocent or one favorite one is the transcontinental railroads never would have been built without government help. and, in fact, candidate barack obama used that example when he was arguing for, yes, a computer czar. we need to have a computer czar because, after all, the transcontinentals couldn't have been built without government help. excuse me, there's a guy named james j. hill, and james j. hill built the northern pacific railroad without a dime of government support. and guess what? it's the only one not to fail in the panic of 1873. all of the government-supported railroads collapsed because they're not profitable. now, my own students usually come to me having not read zen. i get constant e-mails from people saying we had to read zen, and i hate it. i'm sure they get the same kinds of messages, thank god for your book. i don't introduce it, it's just ou

they sold 200,000 of textbooks from december 2010 to january 2011. one man will be sentenced next friday, the other three in january. >>> college basketball tips off tonight with big games for local teams. georgetown is taking part in a classic. it's a spin on a carrier classic. they take on the florida gators. the game starts at 9:00 tonight. looking for a big win. they take on the defending champs in brooklyn. tip off for that game is 8:30 this evening. >> it's not march, but we can feel march madness coming. >> 11:42. still ahead, why you might be allergic to the cell phone you can't seem to live without. >>> why these people are sleeping what are you doing there? i am making crescent bacon cheddar pinwheels. wow, i'm impressed! [ ding ] dad, the cable's out! you got that right? [ kiss ] thank you ♪ [ male announcer ] pillsbury crescents. let the making begin. here's a better idea. pillsbury grands! flaky layers biscuits in just 15 minutes the light delicate layers add a layer of warmth to your next dinner. pillsbury grands biscuits let the making

there is no textbook definition of the sharing economy. we will then begin the panel discussion which will last for 45 minutes or an hour, however long you want it to last. before i dived in here, raise your hand if you are familiar with at least one of these books. i highly recommend all of them. the one on the end is coming out in may. "share or die" -- i do not recommend that for marketing, but for a cause, we're trying to push a boundary and break a trail for new companies to follow. that is our perspective about what is at stake on a planet of finite resources with a growing population and growing per capita consumption. it should be obvious that we should be talking about sharing. this is a gigantic hole in our public dialogue. this panel and the working group and hopefully the book can fix that. see how this works. we face disaster unless we simultaneously reduce resource consumption and raise two million people out of poverty.

prosecutors say the men stole $200,000 worth of textbooks from december of 2010 to january of 20 su. one of the men will be sentenced next friday. the others will be sentenced next january. >>> schools that are under enrolled and under performing. it will be open for parents and teachers to comment. >>> well, you could soon not be allowed to light up on montgomery county property if a proposed ban passes. council member at large nancy florin will introduce a bill that will ban smoking on all montgomery county property. it's to ban cancer cases. said to be in favor of the law. >>> fans of the recently passed d.r.e.a.m. act are hoping to start a national conversation on immigration reform. they will hold a conference call today on the ballot and its potential to have a national act. the d.r.e.a.m. act allowed undocumented immigrants in maryland to pay in-state tuition at community colleges or four-year universities if they can prove they pay taxes. >>> a proposed amendment to the d.c. charter to allow the city to spend its money without congressional approval. former d.c. mayor anthony

history textbooks college textbooks and what i found is that they all without exclusion share certainimilar falsehoods like the rosenberg or one favorite one is transcontinental railroads. it never would have been built without government help, and in fact, the candidate barack obama used that example when he was arguing for yet a computer czar. we need to have a computer czar because they couldn't have been built without government help. excuse me there is a guy named james jay hill and he built the real road without a dime of government support and guess what it's the only one not to feel in the panic of 1873. all of the government support to the real world collapse because they are not profitable. my own students come to me not having read them. i get constant e-mails from people that said we had to read him in school and thank god for your book. i'm sure that they get those kind of messages but i don't introduce it. it's just out there for people to get and we are -- it's interesting we are making a rapid progress towards catching zimm in the last four or five years. we are on a t

some fairfax county high school students are trading their textbooks for twitter this election week. jackie bensen joins us at a high school government class that's probably a lot different than the one you took. >> you can change your state to blue to red, or leave it tan. for the middle. >> i think keeping it, like, as we watch the election, and as news is coming in, from watching polls and stuff, it will be easier to tell, you know, where we think -- i guess we can see it for ourselves instead of just watching it happening. >> reporter: move over "huffington post," these fairfax county high school students are turning their texting talents to twitter on election night. it's a government class project involving students at three schools, including one at hayfield secondary school. >> obviously when the states start coming in, it will be fun. virginia obviously closes at 7:00. 8:30, quarter to 9:00, hopefully, right, frank? >> reporter: this is not the dry politics class many of us remember. >> everyone can access and comment at the same time. you can see what everybody else writes.

money the district says goes toward teacher salary, textbooks and supplies. at cabana's liquor store that has sold five winning tickets, they call power ball a win-win. >> the bigger jackpots bring in more money. more money for the schools more money for us. >> reporter: but business analysts say power ball which requires the player to pick five correct numbers is a horrible check. >> you stand a better chance of having your name mentioned in the state of union address and a better chance of being struck by lightning. >> reporter: but those who play say someone has to hit the jackpot and it could be them. bring on power ball. >> i thought, why don't they have that here so we could have played that here. >> reporter: while the odds of winning are low the odds of it becoming popular appear to be very high. in san lorenzo, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> new york's museum of modern art has added a new collection. classic video games. the museum acquired 14 games. pack man, tetris, myst and sim city -- pac-man. classic, wow. >>> for an expectant parent, the qu

that's a textbook reason why we kept saying it. 25 miles per hour wind gusts at national, 7 in gaithersburg, 17 in manassas. the good news is it will slowly diminish. temperatures chilly, 45 in frederick, 43 in leesburg. your wake-up weather, 30s to start, 7:00 still 30s, 9:00 38 to about 48. we'll come back and put the finishing touches on a very nice weekend forecast. >> thank you, top. >>> a bus driver who fell asleep behind the wheel last year on i-95 has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter. four people died and 49 others were hurt when the driver lost control of his bus last may. the tour group was off to new york city when the driver dozed off and ran into a barrier before the bus flipped over. the national transportation safety board says the bus company was partially at fault because did it not monitor how much rest that driver was getting. >>> who would smack an 81-year- old lady? a coward. that's the word police are using to describe the young man what broke into a woman's home through a back window. police say he hit her, stole her computer, then ran off. it happened about

tavis: and just as you do not want the folks in texas real writing textbooks to write out certain things they did not want students to learn, in your collection and you are entitled to it, but tell me why you decided not to include that very important part? >> shirley and i did not totally agree on this. there are very few things. tavis: 45 years, i did that. >> but we do have a 1921 kkk piece. the thing about the kinsey collection, starting in 1600, we have things from slaves, we had everything. we don't tell this story from a deluded standpoint. what shirley, a hanging, are people being hung, she has resisted that. we deal specifically with the jim crow period. we have a whole section of the book about jim crow. in other words, if you pick up this book, you will learn the accomplishments of black folks. one was kidnapped at nine years old in nigeria, ended up in the caribbean, became a captain, sailed over the world, wrote a book in 1789, which became the basis of william pitt starting the attack on slavery and the 1800's. you never heard of her. born on a slave ship, went on to become

she did a textbook open field tackle on me. she knock me to the ground and then started with the homophobic slurs. >> she thought you were tampering with her signs but you just picked it up to take it to her? >> yeah. i knew she and her husband would be here at the polling area. >> reporter: a precinct captain called police. she was arrested today by first district police officers. >>> coming up tonight, determined voters heading to the polls after surviving hurricane sandy. >> we may not get hit hard by the next coastal storm but new york and new jersey are bracing for the snow and new wind. >>> same sex marriage. voters could make history ahead on news4. >>> the virginia senate race has two form he virginia governors battling to claim that coveted seat. >> it is expected to be one of the tightest races in the nation. 33 u.s. senate seats are up for grabs across the country. the results could change the balance of power on capitol hill. now a look at the critical race between tim kahne and george allen. >> reporter: this is on

they sell everything from pencils to paper to textbooks to curricula to school systems. we do not often think about that. we do not often think about the upside or downside. that is what we want to get into. for instance, our friend at parent revolution said when speaking about the apparent trigger that there is a need to regulate. we need to think about where to draw the lines. they choose not to encourage that for profits be permitted. they believe the introduction of a new stockholder group, a shareholder seeking profit, will make the public school system less oriented toward putting children first. that is the question period does allowing folks to operate for profit cause us to be less likely to put students first? that is today's conversation. we have with the spike extraordinary individuals to think more deeply about these questions. we havestacey childress, where she's a model team. she was on the faculty of the harvard business school where aboutote and talk aboed education. we also have the chief operating officer for learnit systems. before she worked as an nt

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