Comment I once worked for IP lawyers... (Score 1) 184
"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."
So that's how the constitution reads...I was asking one of the younger attorneys at the firm about the "limited time" if the application of the Sonny Bono copyright schmutz didn't make copyright, in effect, unlimited.
His response, verbatim...and I am not shitting you:
"Unlimited is a limit."
The law is whatever they want it to be folks.