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Originally Posted by gideongallery
judges need to be better educated
now i suspect some people here will praise this decision but you may want to think seriously about the consequences of setting a precedent that says that in a conflict between the first ammendment and a congress establish law, the congress establish law takes precedent.
Especially for this industry.
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This IS the first amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. "
Gideongallery, you are a fucking Canadian anyway. You don't have the U.S. constitution or it's amendments.
I don't see anything in the court case that IF you lived in the U.S. stops you from having free speech (you know, saying what you want to without fear of the govt.) or stopping your freedom of religion or right to assemble peaceably, or petition the govt.
Whether you think a work should only be protected by copyright for a short amount of time before a talentless vulture like you can pick it's bones for your own greed...well, that hasn't got a goddamn thing to do with the original intent of the first amendment.