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

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
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it's all about extending copyrights so that lawyers can make money

the RIAA is no less than an extortion racket
they represent a handful of record companies (conglomerates) who have
historically cheated artists, while at the same time enabling
publishers who cheat the writers

and which ethnic/religious group has historically cheated both artists
and writers in the USA?

On Jun 22, 6:50 pm, dick thompson <rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
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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...|
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------+
>
> 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.
>
> Discuss this story at:
>    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/22/1724254
>
> Links:
>     0.http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100621/2320049908.shtml

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