Don't like the sounds of this one at all - looks like an attack on the 1st amendment

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| Court Takes Away Some of the Public Domain |
| from the congress-shall-make-no-law dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 22, @13:28 (Government) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/22/1724254/Court-Takes-Away-Some-of-the-Public-Domain |
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An anonymous reader writes "In yet another bad ruling concerning
copyright, a federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling,
and said that [0]it's okay for Congress retroactively to remove works
from the public domain, even if publishers are already making use of
those public-domain works. The lower court had said this was a First
Amendment violation, but the appeals court said that if Congress felt
taking away from the public domain was in its best interests, then there
was no First Amendment violation at all. The ruling effectively says that
Congress can violate the First Amendment, so long as it feels it has
heard from enough people (in this case, RIAA and MPAA execs) to convince
it that it needs to do what it has done." TechDirt notes that the case
will almost certainly be appealed.

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Links:
0. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100621/2320049908.shtml

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