-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/22/07 15:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:44:04PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Article I, Section 8. >>> >>> The actual language in the constitution states that "The Congress shall >>> have the power to ... promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, >>> by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive >>> Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" >>> >>> Note the word "limited." >>> >> Arguably, since corporations are legal *persons* but have a potentially >> indefinite lifespan, 125 years (or life + 50 years) *is* a limited time. > > I would argue that this violates the spirit of what the framers of the > constitution intended given copyright lengths in England of the same era as > the constitution's writing.
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