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To: Hendrix

" It is a winner and the vast majority of families in this country will be for it.
"

No, it is not a winner. The basis for the copyright and patent laws are in the Constitution. You can't just "pass a law."

Besides, pass that law, and I promise that someone will turn Bambi into a porn film, and there will be no protection for Bambi or it's owners. Copyright laws have reason behind them. If you don't like a film or book, don't see the film or read the book.


246 posted on 07/10/2006 10:10:46 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: MineralMan

Copyright Laws actually predate The Constitution going back to English Common Law.


248 posted on 07/10/2006 10:12:03 AM PDT by Borges
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To: MineralMan

No, it is not a winner. The basis for the copyright and patent laws are in the Constitution. You can't just "pass a law."

You don't know beans about copyright law if you think it would be unconstitutional to pass a law concerning copyrights. And your certainly don't know anything about politics if you think this is not a winning issue for republicans.


255 posted on 07/10/2006 10:20:06 AM PDT by Hendrix
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To: MineralMan
No, it is not a winner. The basis for the copyright and patent laws are in the Constitution. You can't just "pass a law."

Sure you can. Under the Constitution, copyrights and patents are, ultimately, a gift given by the good grace of the Congress (which is given the power to grant such monopolies, but is not required to do so), not a matter of right.

Whether or not it's good public policy to expressly add such a loophole to the exclusivity granted to copyright holders is an ordinary political question, not a Constitutional-law question.

260 posted on 07/10/2006 10:27:17 AM PDT by steve-b ("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
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