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No time limit for copyright claims but very strict limits for anything to do with labour rights - and they still keep telling us it's a country of laws.
by HarryHirsch 2y ago
No time limit for copyright claims but very strict limits for anything to do with labour rights - and they still keep telling us it's a country of laws.
- teeray 2y agoIt would be nice to have some mechanism to force the various branches of government to pass laws that oppose their own collective self-interests but advance the interests of the populace.
- AnarchismIsCool 2y agoThere...is... It's even in the bill of rights, it's just not very pleasant.
- AndrewDucker 2y agoSure. Get a majority of people and a majority of states to vote for it. That's the mechanism.
- gecko 2y agoI mean, it is a country of laws. Just...some of those laws are pretty bad. For what it's worth, the Court in this case is narrowly focused on correcting a lower court's interpretation of the Copyright Act, not something in the Constitution or something fundamental, and on a first glance, I at least feel that their conclusion is highly justifiable. That doesn't mean the Copyright Act isn't fundamentally broken (it is, on my opinion), but that's trivially fixable by Congress if we get appropriately minded representatives.
- HarryHirsch 2y agoThe doctrine of adverse possession is well-established, at some point there has to be certainty about who owns what. Look at East Germany after reunification if you don't believe, the fights over real estate seriously delayed rebuilding. But for copyright adverse possession doesn't apply - it's understandable why the music industry would have the Court say so.
- stevenwoo 2y agoMinority rule by design (or originalists), a perspective: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1246297603/ari-berman-minority-rule-electoral-college https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1246297603/ari-berman-minorit...
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