Time: Thu Dec 11 02:56:41 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA10745 for <pmitch@smtp-local.primenet.com>; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 02:56:19 -0700 (MST) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA26771; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 03:04:21 -0700 (MST) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd026752; Thu Dec 11 03:04:15 1997 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 02:51:39 -0800 To: "Fredrick Rea O'Keefe" <fredrick@tech-center.com> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Common Law Copyright??? Congress cannot abolish the common law, because it is a term recognized by the Seventh Amendment. See Eisner v. Macomber: "Congress cannot by legislation alter the Constitution, from which alone it derives its power to legislate, and within whose limitations that power can be lawfully exercised." It is possible Congress could abolish it for the federal zone, under the Downes Doctrine, but this doctrine has now been attacked in Gilbertson's OPENING BRIEF, now loaded in the Supreme Law Library at the URL just below my name here: /s/ Paul Mitchell, Candidate for Congress http://supremelaw.com At 11:30 PM 12/10/97 -0500, you wrote: >Since CLC was abolished (subsumed under statute law by Congress in 1976, effective 1/1/78), what prompts you to list your web page as having CLC? I ask as a writer who is discussing CLC vs copyright registration with a writers group. > >Fredrick Rea O'Keefe ("Rick") >Copyright (c) 1997, all rights reserved. >fredrick@tech-center.com >+++++++++++++++++++++ > >Attachment Converted: "I:\ATTACH\CommonLa" > >Attachment Converted: "I:\ATTACH\CommonLa.gif" > =========================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell, Sui Juris : Counselor at Law, federal witness 01 B.A.: Political Science, UCLA; M.S.: Public Administration, U.C.Irvine 02 tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night 03 email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU 04 website: http://supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now 05 ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best 06 Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone 07 Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this 08 _____________________________________: Law is authority in written words 09 As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall 10 not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. 11 ======================================================================== 12 [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.] 13
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