Posted by Bob Quintal on 12/06/06 01:06

"PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote in
news:4tlu5rF137gfqU1@mid.individual.net:

>
> "Paul Rubin" <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message
> news:7xodqidhj7.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com...
>> "PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> writes:
>>> > No amendment to the constitution would be needed to make
>>> > all copyrights expire 24 hours after being issued, or to
>>> > stop issuing them altogether.
>>>
>>> True, but that's not going to happen. Why in the world
>>> should a copyright
>>> expire after 24 hours, or not issue at all?
>>
>> Well, you were the one that brought up constitutional
>> amendments. I'm pointing out that no amendment would be
>> needed to make such a change. Whether such a change is
>> desirable is a political question, and as with any such
>> question, opinions vary.
>
> The post to which I replied argued that copyright infringement
> doesn't really harm the copyright holder. Article I, Section
> 8 of the Constitution reserves to the author the rights
> protected by copyright. In order to consider "harm to the
> copyright owner" in determining infringement liability, a
> Constitutional amendment would be necessary to change Article
> I, Section 8's exclusion rights reservation.
>
And if you were to read the article and section in question,
you would have seen it states "The Congress shall have Power
[...]To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by
securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the
exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

1: Copyright protection is limited to authors and Inventors
--Not to publishers and agents.

2: Copyright protection must promote the 'Progress of Science
and useful Arts'
--useful Arts as understood at the time the document was created
is called Engineering today.
--Not meant to apply to general fiction, music, painting, dance.

3: 'for limited Times'
--Not forever and a day. Too long a term fails to protect
Science and useful Arts by preventing other than the copyright
holder from accessing and using the knowledge in the copyrighted
material.


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Bob Quintal

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