I wonder what the legal implications of wearing a wire all the time are? 'cause it would actually help me out quite a bit, at least if there was a way for me to easily add tags (or otherwise make it search able)
As long as the data remains yours and you're its handler, why would there be any intrinsic legal implication to wearing that kind of stuff? It'd be no different than carrying an always on camcorder.
Though I think that box is ugly and impractical, I'll wait for artificial eyes or systems tapping the optic nerve.
why would there be any intrinsic legal implication to wearing that kind of stuff?
For one, in many states it is illegal to record a conversation without the consent of all parties. (In most states it is illegal to record a conversation without the consent of at least one party to it.)
You'd literally bump into people at the supermarket and say "My, what a beautiful child you have and BY THE WAY I'm wearing a discrete wire please don't talk unless you want it recorded."
There was talk in Maryland about criminal prosecution of Linda Tripp for recording Monica Lewinski back in the 90s. I said at the time, that laws like that just prove that legislators are crooks, since the only benefit of those types of laws is for liars. There is no law against one party repeating what another party told them, the only thing this type of law does is to prevent proving who is lying.
It's not such a crazy question. If the person reproduced the work, certainly.
However, there is also part of copyright that involves "fixing" a work in a medium so that it can be reproduced. With the rather vague caveat of unless it's for "transitory duration".
There is even debate on if a RAM buffer constitutes infringement. If I recall some lectures on this Sony ran into this problem when they started offering RAM buffering on their CD Discman devices (although the issue goes right back).
However, this recently got challenged with a series of decisions that went the other way - RAM buffers were fine - These decisions had more of a focus on the "economic value" that can be derived from a copy... It also accepted the fact that the practice is widespread and essential in most electronic devices.
So in light of the later trend... You're probably ok.
