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Nashville Songwriters: Public Domain = Legalized Piracy
Posted by Ernest Miller on Friday, October 18 @ 11:14:02 EDT Copyright
Timothy R. Philips has written a very nice article on the purpose of the copyright clause with some good historical information (In praise of creative freedom - 1). He concludes that, "if a provision of the copyright or patent statute is 'primarily designed to provide a special private benefit', then Congress may not authorize it." He has also done a service by highlighting this particularly egregious footnote in the amicus brief filed by the Nashville Songwriters Association International in Eldred v. Ashcroft:
[C]opyright never removes any existing knowledge from the public domain. It merely postpones the legal piracy of a particular way of expressing that knowledge. (Brief Amici Curiae of the Nashville Songwriters Association International in support of Respondent, in the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft, August, 2002, p. 10, footnote 7.) [PDF]
 
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Nashville Songwriters Brief in HTML (Score: 1, Informative)
by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Friday, October 18 @ 13:13:54 EDT
The Brief Amici Curiae of the NSAI can be found here in HTML for your convenience, thanks to Google.


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