On 2013-06-09 19:30, Mark Janssen wrote:
> Thanks for digging out the legal code. Upon reading, it is
> stunningly clear that the legal system has not established a solid
> framework or arching philosophy in which to contain and express the
> desire (in law) to protect content creators of all kinds or the
> general public with the fair use of such works and has been running
> on the sheer confidence of "the American spirit", however facile or
> misdirected that may be.
What is clear is the mandate that sets up the framework in the first
place:
"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"
-- USC Article I, Section 8
If it doesn't "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", then
it misses the spirit of the law as drafted.
Granted, courts seem to miss that interpretation on a regular basis,
leaving me a bit disgusted at the whole mess. :-/
-tkc
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