Re: The Eric Eldred Act

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 1:23AM -0500, Tyler Ochoa wrote:
> I like it; except that we had such a system before in the renewal
> provisions of the 1790, 1831, 1870 and 1909 Acts; and Congress
> expressly
> scrapped the renewal provisions at the behest of owner interests in
> the
> 1976 Act. So I imagine the odds of getting Congress to agree to such
> a
> tax are pretty long. (Perhaps roughly comparable to the odds (ex ante,
> not ex post) of getting the Supreme Court to overturn the CTEA!)

Especially since doing so would violate Berne. For all of the (justified, IMHO) criticism that Berne comes under, it is still the minimum international standard for copyright law. We put a lot of pressure on other countries to conform to Berne. I don't think that Congress would impose a registration requirement.

Roy Murphy \ CSpice: A Mailing List for Clergy Spouses murphy@panix.com \ http://www.panix.com/~murphy/CSpice.html Received on Tue Jan 28 2003 - 13:42:53 GMT