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To: Lurking Libertarian
> It may be bad legislation, but I'm not sure how it is unconstitutional, since Congress is explicitly granted the power in the Constitution to establish copyrights.

Establishing the copyrights is one thing, no objection. The objection here is not to the copyright -- I'm a software author and musical performer who respects copyrights.

The objection is to a law which trashes constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure, invasions of privacy, etc. This is only incidentally about copyright per se.

161 posted on 05/15/2007 12:21:24 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored; Lurking Libertarian
unconstitutional, since Congress is explicitly granted the power in the Constitution to establish copyrights.

commerce clause

something somewhere , some how , may be sold ... or may not be sold ...

If they can say growing grain to feed your own stock is regulatable via the commerce clause because you would have had to go out in to the open market and make a purchase ... but you didn’t because you grew your own , therefor impacting the world market prices of grain ...

then they can say anything is covered under the commerce clause.

it’s a another power grab

174 posted on 05/15/2007 8:04:46 PM PDT by THEUPMAN (####### comment deleted by moderator)
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