Re: CDR: Re: Supremes and thieves.

2003-01-21 Thread Marc de Piolenc
Alif The Terrible wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Marc de Piolenc wrote: > > > The US Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws. > > Which has not stopped them yet. Actually, that provision has held quite well so far. I can't think of one exception...unless it's this latest copyright extensio

Re: CDR: Re: Supremes and thieves.

2003-01-20 Thread Marc de Piolenc
The US Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws. Marc Bill Stewart wrote: > There were documents that were _going_ to become public domain soon > that will now stay copyrighted for another 20 years, > and one of the issues addressed by the Supremes in Eldred was > whether the grant of an extra