Posted on 10/21/2003 1:18:53 PM PDT by HAL9000
Idiots. It should read:
The treaty will also prevent people from criminalize bypassing technical restrictions on CDs and DVDs, in a way similar to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Now we'll hear the MP3 idiots scream because corportations have discovered the same short cut in law.
That's an odd reading of the Constitution. The IP provision within the Constitution says that its purpose is "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts". By contrast, many things that shouldn't be copyrighted under that standard (paintings, sports broadcasts, etc.) are copyrighted. Somehow.
Secondly, and more fundamentally, there is no such thing as a benefit to a corporation --- it's merely an abbreviation of speech. Corporations are groups of people --- owners, employees, customers, suppliers and other publics --- and it is to them that the benefits and costs accrue.
At the time of Marx, great many corporations were closely held by a few individuals. He and his followers spoke of them as a synonim for "rich." Whatever he said, the use of the word at least was meaningful: with only a few owners, the benefits accrued to a small number of people.
Today, however, the largest companies are publicly traded and owned literally by millions of people, which includes the retired, the widowed and the orphaned. It is to them that the benefits, and costs, acrrue when we speak of "corporate" gains. Corporate "power" is their power as well.
Could you explicate how you deduced that copyrighting paintings and the like is detrimental to the progress of the arts?
You see, you're a dreaded, dirty Communist unless you unconditionally support and applaud all the demands of multi-nationals, monopolies, government sanctioned and protected monopolies, giant corporations, get it?
If you believe the only alternatives are government by Microsoft et al or socialist government, your mind must have been produced by the Dan Rather Show. The founding fathers had a better idea. Study them!
And this, too, you've deduced from the Fathers?
The point was also clear: your imaginary "government by Microsoft" is a socialist --- Marxist-Leninist, actually -- creed.
What is also clear that you substitute references to reveered sources, such as the works of the Fathers, for the ability to think. You don't have to think well --- that's fine. But then you should suspend judgement.
Instead you promulgate here a purely socialist anti-corporate garbage.
P.S. By the way: corporations have explored and settled America. This happened even before our Founding Fathers. It appears it is you who has a gread deal of studying to do. Whether or not you do that, please take your socialism elsewhere.
Your worship of the corporation is noted. Your attempt to brand anyone who does not want corporations writing our laws as "socialist" is ridiculous. As for the founding fathers, I believe Thomas jefferson was one :
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."-- Thomas Jefferson
I beieve Madison was also a founding father:
As the father of the Constitution, President James Madison, wrote, "There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by... corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses."
Didn't mean "art". Means technology. Charts, not paintings. Mechanical diagrams of a piano, not sheet music.
Founders well aware of distinctions.
I know that you confuse the two, but there is a difference between worship and awareness of something.
In an earlier post, I have already replied to the points you've made: in those times, the banks and the corporations were primarily privately owned, whereas it is the public that owns most of our corporations today. Please read that post if you are interested.
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