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Davis, CA | Copyright clause ignored by big corps... Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, empowers the United States Congress:
“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."
Let's see:
It promotes Intellectual Property (IP) rights to promote the progress of science and useful arts...not corporate profit.
It secures for limited times...I doubt they had in mind 99 years, etc. copyrights.
It secures exclusive rights to authors...not their heirs after the authors are dead!
Copyright law in the US simply doesn't reflect what the Constitution allows. So pirate as protest! |
