Re: [dvd-discuss] ABA to Vote on Copyright Term Extension Resolution

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Haven't read the whole thing but this one stood out 

"The Report rejected that Congress was stepping "down the road of perpetual 
copyright protection" for three reasons:  (1) the Patent and Copyright Clause 
of the Constitution precludes such a result; (2) the "emerging international 
standard" is a fixed term based on the author's death; and (3) the U.S. 
principle of protecting the author and at least one generation of heirs 
remained unchanged by the bill which simply recognized the life-plus-50 term as 
insufficient to accomplish this goal."

We CAN NOT have perpetual copyright because it is forbidden therefore whatever 
we do can not create a perpetual copyright. 

On 20 Jun 2002 at 19:33, Seth Johnson wrote:

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> 
> (Forwarded from NY Fair Use Discussion list,
> fairuse-discuss@mrbrklyn.com; originally from James Love's
> Random Bits list, random-bits@lists.essential.org)
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:00:39 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com>
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:55:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: YP Fun <ypinterest@yahoo.com>
> 
> 
> fyi:
> 
> extension of IP copyrights from life+50 to life+70 in
> response to EU's +20 extension.
> 
> >
> > --- James Love <james.love@cptech.org> wrote:
> > > From: James Love <james.love@cptech.org>
> > > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:15:19 -0400
> > >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:13:37 -0400
> > > From: Donna Wentworth <donna@cyber.law.harvard.edu>
> > >
> > >
> > > In case you hadn't seen this...
> > >
> > >
> > > COPYRIGHT TERM EXTENSION ACT
> > > PROPOSED RESOLUTION 301-1
> > >
> > > http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/summer2002/307.doc
> > >
> 
> 
> YP
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