This is toltaly nuts. No one's first amendment rights the the freedom of speech should be denide because of copy right law and here's why:
Copy right law comes from Article I, Section 8, Claus 8 which states:
[The Congress shall have 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.
This gives congress the powers to set up copy right laws, but does not protect copy right laws or say that any copy rights laws are leagle.
The first amendment stats:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
This meens that congress can't make laws that prohibit the freedom of speech.
One more thing, the ninth amendments states:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Which meens that once people are given a certen right by the constitution it can never be taken away.
What does all this meen? It meens that the copy right law that was passed by congress cannot be construed to be sencership law.
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This is toltaly nuts. No one's first amendment rights the the freedom of speech should be denide because of copy right law and here's why:
Copy right law comes from Article I, Section 8, Claus 8 which states:
[The Congress shall have 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.
This gives congress the powers to set up copy right laws, but does not protect copy right laws or say that any copy rights laws are leagle.
The first amendment stats:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
This meens that congress can't make laws that prohibit the freedom of speech.
One more thing, the ninth amendments states:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Which meens that once people are given a certen right by the constitution it can never be taken away.
What does all this meen? It meens that the copy right law that was passed by congress cannot be construed to be sencership law.
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