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[eliyes]

The Supreme Court rules that Congress can re-copyright works that are in the public domain. What fuckery is this?

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[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Fuck, is this to ultimately protect Disney? Because I'm betting they're in the depths of this case somewhere...

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I don't know, Hollywood seems to be pulling multiple strings lately as well. Could be Disney, could be Disney AND other stuff. Considering copyright was invented to protect tribal art, I think it's gone pretty off-task now.

[krillia.livejournal.com]

Yeeeaaaaaah.

[krillia.livejournal.com]

I imagine the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is involved. They have fairly continuously tried to get copyright of the SH's books reinstated.

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many cities we could power by Thomas Jefferson spinning in his grave...?

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Probably a fair few. *hugs*

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

*scrubs face tiredly* Could be.

[starwatcher]

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Isn't it interesting how, when the people need something -- say, unemployment benefits that they PAID for -- Congress gets snarky about whether the Constitution actually permits that action or interpretation. But when it's something that they want to do -- say, holding people without trial -- the Constitution becomes an unimportant and irrelevant piece of scrap paper.

Yeah.
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[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Congress is a curse on America, don't you know?

A second flood, a simple famine,
Plagues of locusts eveywhere,
Or a cataclysmic earthquake
I'd accept with some despair.
But no, You sent us Congress --
Good God, sir, was that fair?
John Adams bitching at God about Congress in 1776: A Musical Play

*sigh* But all jocularity aside, it does make one want to overthrow the government at times, when the government starts pulling shit like this.

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

Did someone invoke John Adams? :D ?

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I DID! I DID! :D I was so hoping you'd pop in with that icon~

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

Not to mention my other favorite line about Congress from that play:

One useless man is called a disgrace--
Two become a law firm--
And three, or more, are called a CONGRESS!