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Re: [dvd-discuss] business method patents and scientology



someone somewhere wrote:

> (this may have been discussed before)
>
> I was wondering if the preamble of the copyright clause couldn't be 
> used to curtail some of the current excesses we see.  The clause says 
> ...to promote SCIENCE and useful ARTS...
>
> now couldn't that be used against :
> -business method patents (science : nope ; art : nope)
> -scientology (science : nope ; art : nope)
>
Both of the above are works of fiction and thus deserve protection.....