Time: Thu Dec 11 02:51:38 1997 To: "Fredrick Rea O'Keefe" <fredrick@tech-center.com> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Common Law Copyright??? Cc: Bcc: sls References: 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" >
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