Re: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson(at)realmeasures.dyndns.org>]

I think the key here is to emphasize that exclusive rights
need to be granted or denied by Congress with attention to
the public interest, rather than solely in terms of the
personal interests of Authors and Inventors.  It's the
consideration of what's at stake for the rights of the
public that's been left out of consideration by Congress
throughout the history of exclusive rights legislation.  The
shorter the term, the better, because the very concept of
"exclusive rights" itself is striking increasingly wide of
the mark.

Seth Johnson

someone somewhere wrote:
> 
> >From: Jolley <tjolley@swbell.net>
> >Reply-To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> >To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> >Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus
> >Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 22:20:01 -0500
> >
> >The answer for an upper limit could be in the constitution.
> >   ...by securing for limited Times to Authors...
> >Anything granted beyond an author's lifetime is being granted to
> >someone else.
> >
> If an author's lifetime would be the upper limit, then there's not much
> point to having 'limited times' in there. Then they could have just said :
> ...by securing to Authors...
> 
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