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Old 07-25-2012, 07:02 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by halfpint View Post
If successful, it would deprive the adult industry and many others of their ability to protect their original works. What is worse is that it would usher in a new era of the government acting as a censor, by using its power to deprive disfavored content of its constitutionally mandated incentives.

http://www.xbiz.com/articles/147189/
1. taking away copyright doesn't censor because it doesn't take away your right to sell the stuff you created (see open source)

2. it not constitutionally mandated incentives, it a constitutionally allowed incentive. And that allowance is conditional "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"




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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.

3. if taking away copyright /voiding then open source is dead, because the entire principle of forced barter of GPL would also be unconstitutional. In which your taking away a copyright protection of something that can prove it promotes the progress of science to protect something which can't prove it.
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