On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:28:24PM -0800, Chris Travers wrote: > > Is it just me or does Golan more or less read out of the Constitution > any functional requirements regarding copyright law and read the > copyright/patent clause basically as delegating unlimited power to > Congress in this regard? I mean can Congress now start allowing > telephone directories to be copyrighted, since we no longer care about > promoting the progress of anything?
That's what Congress and the Supreme Court have a tendency toward doing over generational drift in every respect -- copyrights, patents, interstate commerce, eminent domain, and so on. This should come as no surprise by now. I don't think that Congress would try to limit licenses to individually named licensees, though, as someone else suggested. It would destroy commercial EULAs as surely as it would destroy copyleft licensing. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
