Thread: Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works
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Old 01-18-2012, 05:20 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by spellbanisher View Post
Yup. It basically makes a mockery of both the copyright clause and the first amendment.
I don't see how. If extending copyright from life+50 to life+70 doesn't violate the copyright clause, I don't see how putting certain PD works in the life+70 category would violate it.

And this decision doesn't burden the 1st Amendment any more than the copyright clause already does.
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