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Supreme Court Rules Works can be pulled out of Public Domain and Re-Copyrighted.

It's like an unspoken, almost sacred concept in copyright law. It's the public domain, where cultural creations exist unfettered, without a legal owner (though often, a credited author). These works are free for re-use, reinterpretation, and sale, and a protected place where orchestra conductors, curators, and preservationists frequently roam.

But the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Golan v. Holder, that Congress can remove works from the public domain and re-copyright them in order to bring the pieces into compliance with international copyright schemes. Yeah, because that doesn't run completely against the spirit of copyright law or anything.

For one reason or another, the American copyright protections of many famous, foreign works—including H.G. Wells' Things to Come, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Prokofiev's Classical Symphony and Peter and the Wolf, Shostakovich's Symphony 14, Cello Concerto and everything by Igor Stravinsky—moved into the public domain despite still being copyrighted overseas. To "correct" this issue, Congress passed legislation in 1994 that would move the works in question back to protected status and comply with the Berne Convention, an international copyright treaty.

This week, the Supreme Court ruled on a case brought by a coalition of educators, performers, and film archivists who rely on public domain works such as these for their livelihoods. If these pieces are place back under copyright, this group (like everybody else) simply can't use them. However in a 6-2 ruling—Justices Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito dissenting—the Court ruled that bringing these works into agreement with the international treaty did not violate the First Amendment rights of those people using the works as they are now (no, those folks will just have to pay licensing fees to perform), nor does it set a precedent for Congress to eventually push for perpetual copyright protections.

In his dissent, Justice Breyer stated that the congressional legislation,

"bestows monetary rewards only on owners of old works in the American public domain. At the same time, the statute inhibits the dissemination of those works, foreign works published abroad after 1923, of which there are many millions, including films, works of art, innumerable photographs, and, of course, books - books that (in the absence of the statute) would assume their rightful places in computer-accessible databases, spreading knowledge throughout the world."...

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Church and State? Who Cares?

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The Real 2012 Election Winners: Super PACS

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Supreme Court Schedules Three Day Review of Healthcare Reform

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The Obama Administration Will Not Veto Defense Authorization Bill!

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Santorum: ‘Court has gotten it wrong’ that pornography is free speech

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Perry wants constitutional amendment for prayer in schools

By David Edwards
Sunday, December 11, 2011

As president, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says he would fight for a constitutional amendment to allow prayer in schools.

In an ad released last week, Perry declared that President Barack Obama was waging a “war on religion” because gays are allowed to serve openly in the military and children aren’t allowed to pray in schools.

“It was the Supreme Court, back in 1962, that decided — and it’s been upheld since then — that children couldn’t pray in school,” Fox News host Chris Wallace told Perry Sunday. “Barack Obama had nothing to do with that.”

“I would support a constitutional amendment that allows children to pray in school anytime that they would like,” Perry declared. “I happen to believe that ought be a local decision, and that’s not the Supreme Court’s business to be telling Americans when and how they should pray.”

“On the issue of don’t ask, don’t tell: It was working, and for the commander in chief to use our military as a political tool while we’re in combat in two different locations around the world — at least two different locations around the world in Iraq and Afghanistan — I just think it’s really irresponsible. … I think [the gay ban] is bad public policy and I would change it.”

Wallace noted that the ban on prayer in schools had continued under both Republican and Democratic Presidents.

“I’m telling you what I believe, Chris,” Perry replied. “Americans don’t agree with that decision that was made in 1962, and if we have a constitutional amendment election across this country allowing our children to pray in school, I will suggest to you it will pass overwhelmingly. And I’ll support that. I will go across this country, as I am promoting a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution, I will work on a balanced — or I should say an amendment to allow our children to pray in school.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/11/perry-wants-constitutional-amendment-for-prayer-in-schools/

Watch this video from Fox’s Fox News Sunday, broadcast Dec. 11, 2011.

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