Court Finds Part of Copyright Act Unconstitutional

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A US District Court in the Southern District of California has found the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act to be unconstitutional. That act is what removes the sovereign immunity for infringement that state workers have in their official capacity, something many argued would jeopardize universities with liability for faculty infringement, not to mention other state agencies. In a rather dense legal ruling (PDF), the Court found that the Clarification Act was not a valid exercise of congressional power under the 14th Amendment. For those of you who have absolutely no idea what I just said, I recommend either being glad that a small piece of copyright law may soon bite the dust, or hoping that NYCL will explain this better."

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Correction on Fox News characterization.

[Ungrounded Lightning]

FOX News is a right-wing puppet news organization.

FOX News is a neoconservative puppet news organization. (This became glaringly obvious during their covarage of the Republican primaries.)

There are several other factions on the "right wing" - some, IMHO, much more reasonable. (Classical conservatives, minarchist-capitalist libertarians, and the religious right, to name three big ones. Of varying reasonableness. B-) )

The neoconservatives are essentially retreaded Stalanists, some of whom are former Democrats who moved to the Republican party after the Rs took control of the congress. To the extent there is a faction on the right that is all the bad things the left wing has been saying the right wing is, that's them.