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Originally Posted by HarryT
Thanks, Ralph - that's very interesting.
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You're welcome, Harry. We don't always agree on the details, but we both always try to listen.
Please note, a Taking Clause doesn't stop the copyright change, it merely says that Congress must pay for the fair value of the property taken. In the
Golan case, there is a clear starting point for the taking, and the amount claimed by all copyright holders would be the value taken. Conceptually, quite cut and dried. How you would distribute the money, that's a more problematical issue...
However, it would cause copyright extension to no longer be "free" to the Congress granting them. They would have to be paid for. And then the very numbers that the MAFIAA used to claim all these piracy losses could then be used to value the Taking...
Heh, Heh, Heh....