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Is There Any Copyright Clause Constitutional Limit on Congress?

By William Patry, Esq

I made this statement in a prior post:"The Constitution is quite clear that Congress can only grant copyright to promote the progress of science, and thus this ?burden? exists from the inception of the rights, and follows those rights for the duration of the copyright."Ben replied in part by stating: The way you phrase this I think points to a rather fundamental divide among copyright lawyers (and interested others) who think about these issues. ? There has long been a debate whether the "[t]o p read more

Full post as published by Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars on September 12, 2009 (boomark / email).