Re: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus

["someone somewhere" <chaos755(at)hotmail.com>]

>From: Tom <tom@lemuria.org>
>Reply-To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
>To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
>Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus
>Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:24:09 +0200
>
>On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:06:28AM -0700, Michael A Rolenz wrote:
> > <D/A> Yes but the rights that the author possesses are part of their
> > estate, just as their other property and can be sold or retained by 
>their
> > heirs as any other property.
>
>bzzzt. "property", yes. however, copyrights are not a property, the
>propaganda of the movie mafia aside. copyrights are just that: rights.
>the same way that you don't inherit the right to, say, free speech and
>the pursuit of happiness, you don't inherit the copyright.

It seems that the ussc disagrees with you.  I recently posted this, from 
festo...

The patent laws “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts” by
rewarding innovation with a temporary monopoly. U. S. Const., Art. I, §8, 
cl. 8. The monopoly is a PROPERTY RIGHT (my caps); and like any property 
right, its boundaries should be clear.  (Festo Ussct)




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