Thread: Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works
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Old 01-20-2012, 09:31 AM   #62
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
The only other legal argument that I am aware of that's left and I could be wrong (IANAL) would be to sue the members of RIAA and MPAA under the inverse taking clause under the Court of Claims. (another piece of obscure US law) tha legal argument would be that the government took the property (i.e. the copyrights extended) from the individuals who would have received it upon expiration of copyright. Inasmuch as this is normally reserved for sue the government for taking, you probably couldn't actually get at the copyright holders, but you might get Congresses attention, for the next time around... (Lots of mineral rights cliams are of this nature...)
The problem is, that the idea of public domain is that no one owns it. How can no one sue anyone?
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