Posted on 01/24/2012 2:29:28 PM PST by Miami Vice
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a treaty did not exceed Congressional authority in the copyright clause of the Constitution.
In a Jan. 18 ruling on Golan v. Holder, the court held 6-2 that a treaty seeking to equalize copyright protection on an international basis, called the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, did not exceed ...
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Wow, Ginsberg wrote the opinion and Alito and Breyer were the dissenters. You don’t see that combination every day.
The attorney representing the estate of Mr. William Shakespeare will appear any minute now....
The attorney representing the estate of Mr. William Shakespeare will appear any minute now....
The attorney representing the estate of Mr. William Shakespeare will appear any minute now....
Limited times..now means whatever they decide it means. It possibly could have been a lifetime plus seventy years, but the SCOTUS has been relatively consistent - it means whatever congress decides it means, and that the limitation is purely self imposed, and may be changed in any manner or form retroactively - unless it's to reduce it, because that wouldn't be fair.
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