Let’s see what the U.S. Constitution says.
It says, “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;”.

The key receivers in that clause are authors
and inventors. So, any change to the U.S.
copyright law that will benefit authors is
justifiable under the clause. However, not
all changes are justifiable because of the
constraints as imposed by “limited Times”,
“Writings”, and First Amendment. The removal
of compulsory right benefits authors, does
not violate the constraint of “limited
Times”, does not violate the constraint of
“Writings”, and does not violate the First
Amendment. So, there is nothing wrong with
it in respect to the U.S. Constitution.
The responsibility for balancing the
interests of authors and the public rests
on Congress.

One immediate benefit from removal of
compulsory right is the reduction of
the already complex U.S. copyright law
by about 2,800 words (a little more than
5 pages)! 🙂

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<[email protected]>

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comment in the public domain.

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