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

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:

Date sent:      	Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:33:36 -0400
From:           	Seth Johnson <[email protected]>
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Subject:        	[dvd-discuss] ABA to Vote on Copyright Term Extension 
Resolution
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> 
> (Forwarded from NY Fair Use Discussion list,
> [email protected]; originally from James Love's
> Random Bits list, [email protected])
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:00:39 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:55:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: YP Fun <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> fyi:
> 
> extension of IP copyrights from life+50 to life+70 in
> response to EU's +20 extension.
> 
> >
> > --- James Love <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > From: James Love <[email protected]>
> > > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:15:19 -0400
> > >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:13:37 -0400
> > > From: Donna Wentworth <[email protected]>
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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