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Old 02-26-2012, 08:34 AM   #42
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Originally Posted by carpetmojo View Post
Could anyone tell me, should any company like this choose to do so, could they legally, under US law, lay down similar restrictions on copies of, say, the Koran ? Or the Bible ?
Or would that fall foul of religious freedom statutes, freedom of speech, etc... ?
Yes, a private company could do that unless there were a specific law to the contrary, which, as far as I know, there isn't.

Although Americans like to talk about their "constitutional right" to do xyz, the reality is that the constitution is a set of restrictions on what government can do. First amendment rights are rights that protect the citizen from the government, not the citizen from another citizen.
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