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So why are pro-copyright judges never expected to keep their bias a secret? Are in fact allowed to not just voice an opinion, but to actually be activists and

• rprasad 14y ago
  Bias legally means having sufficient strong views of a legal interpretation or party that these views override the judge's ability to impartially apply the law to the specific facts of a given case. The "pro-copyright" judges are not biased--they are simpy following the law, which currently holds that copyrights are legal and provides (some draconian) mechanisms for enforcing copyrights. If there are problems, it is not the judges--it is the law. In the U.S., at least, judges are not allowed to be publicly politically active (except to the extent of their own campaigns for judicial office), or to lobby for political causes at all, though they are allowed to maintain private political views. No copyright lobbyist is a judge, though a few former judges may be copyright lobbyists. This is not a one way street. The enemy of freedom is not the judicial system; quite often, the judiciary is the primary defender of your freedoms.