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July 05, 2005
Today in History - July 5
Posted by Ernest Miller
July 5
1687 - Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published.
1833 - Death of Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor
He invented the first permanent photograph. Previous photographs would fade rapidly.
1918 - Birth of
George Rochberg, American classical composer (d. 2005)
Many of his works were musical collages of quotations from other composers. Contra Mortem et Tempus, for expample, contains passages from Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Edgard Varese and Charles Ives.
1951 -
William Shockley invents the junction
transistor.
1954 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky.
More than 50 years later these works are still under copyright.
1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
More that 50 years later and the BBC is doing its best to encourage people to create new works with its works.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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