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Posted by Bob Quintal on 12/06/06 23:35
"PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote in
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> "Bob Quintal" <rquintal@sPAmpatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:Xns9890D279147EDBQuintal@66.150.105.47...
>> Copyright, in the US Constitution, is "To promote the
>> progress of science and the useful arts". Not to promote the
>> fine arts, the terpsichorean arts, the literary arts. Only
>> Science and the useful arts we now call Engineering. It is
>> the perversion of the intent of copyright by moviemakers,
>> singers, fiction writers that has led to the nonsense you
>> post, because something that should not be protected by
>> copyright is therefore not subject to infringement.
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> Sorry. You're wrong.
>
That's your opinion. Since you offer no credible rebuttal, I'll
treat your opinion with the respect it deserves, none
whatsoever, until you can make a case for your sorry "you're
wrong"
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>> As to several hundred years of "intellectual property
>> jutrisprudence", do some research. I'ts been about 110 years
>> since Copyright jurisprudence has been applied to non
>> Scientific/Engineering publications.
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> The Statute of Anne, which is the first copyright statute in a
> common law country, was enacted in 1710. It was titled, "An
> Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies
> of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies,
> during the Times therein mentioned." It, along with other
> English common law, formed the basis for American law. I
> don't know where you're getting this stuff from, but
> copyright, since its statutory inception, was never limited to
> scientific or engineering publications.
I think you need to reread the document without preconceptions..
That it was limited to scholarly works is evident in a careful
analysis of the Statute of Queen Anne itself.
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In part from the Statute of Queen Anne.
"For Preventing therefore such
Practices for the future, and for the
Encouragement of Learned Men to Compose and Write use-
ful Books;"
Learned men... NOT illiterate painters.
Useful books...NOT pretty music, NOT romance novels.
"Be it therefore further Enacted by the Au-
thority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act contained shall be
construed to extend to subject any Bookseller, Printer, or other
Person whatsoever, to the Forfeitures or Penalties therein men-
tioned, for or by reason of the Printing or Reprinting of any
Book
or Books without such Consent, as aforesaid, unless the Title
to the Copy of such Book or Books hereafter Published shall,
before such Publication be Entred [sic], in the Register-Book of
the
Company of Stationers, "
This implies that it is the responsibility of the author to
register the copyright,
"That if any Bookseller or Booksellers,
Printer or Printers, shall, after the said Five and twentieth
Day of March, One thousand seven hundred and ten, set a
Price upon, or Sell or Expose to Sale, any Book or Books
at such a Price or Rate as shall be Conceived by any Person
or Persons to be High and Unreasonable; It shall and may be
Lawful for any Person or Persons to make Complaint thereof
to the "
Imposwes restrictions upon the publishers to prevent abuse by
them
http://www.copyrighthistory.com/anne.html
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