Re: sovereign nations & copyright law

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Harold Federow <haroldf[_at_]bsquare.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2000, Jayne Sebby <jsebby[_at_]unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Are citizens of sovereign nations within the U.S. (ie: the various
> > Indian Tribes) subject to U.S. copyright law?
>
> This is top of the head, so beware. My sense of Indian sovereignty
> is that it is limited sovereignty and that Indians are generally
> subject to most federal laws. In some sense, they are roughly equal
> to the states in sovereignty in that both are under the federal
> government and their laws have an often complicated interaction with
> each other.

The big difference, I think, is that an Indian Tribe would not be covered by the Eleventh Amendment.

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