Koch Is Not It | 5 comments (5 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

The pranksters' political speech isn't Constitutionally protected because it infringes on our IP.

A hoot since IP law is based squarely on Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution.

So they argued the Constitutional Right to Free Speech is trumped by the Constitutional Right of Copyright.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Wed May 18th, 2011 at 02:55:11 PM EST

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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.

I fail to see where it mentions "to crush free speach" but I am sure it eventually will.

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by A swedish kind of death on Wed May 18th, 2011 at 03:25:22 PM EST
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Why, it's right there in black and white ... (none / 0)

... "to promote ... other Useful Arts".

Clearly, crushing free speech is an Art that is useful to the entrenched aristocracy of wealth.

And isn't supporting an entrenched aristocracy what the Constitution is all about?

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue May 24th, 2011 at 12:57:55 PM EST
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