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Re: [dvd-discuss] business method patents and scientology
- To: dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
- Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] business method patents and scientology
- From: Mark Roberts <maroberts(at)dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 18:18:32 +0100
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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.....