Comments on: Cheap Paramount movies http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9329 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9329/comment-page-1#comment-63260 Reader's Write Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:32:29 +0000 #comment-63260 “Judge Makiko Takabe rejecting Paramount's claims that its products that had entered the public domain are retroactively subject to patent protection for 20 more years under the new law, Kyodo said.” A neophyte lawyer could have told Paramount that laws cannot be retroactive. But, the retroactivity of copyright has been applied to copyright routinely. How they (the music publisher cartels) get away with it is beyond me. This is how Mickey Mouse is still under alleged copyright. RETROACTIVITY OF THE LAW, A (USA) CONTITUTIONALLY WRONG CONCEPT. Het, Mickey Mouse is now free, in the public domain, at last, at least in Japan. Rafael Venegas http://www.gvenegas.com Rafael Venegas “Judge Makiko Takabe rejecting Paramount’s claims that its products that had entered the public domain are retroactively subject to patent protection for 20 more years under the new law, Kyodo said.”

A neophyte lawyer could have told Paramount that laws cannot be retroactive.

But, the retroactivity of copyright has been applied to copyright routinely. How they (the music publisher cartels) get away with it is beyond me. This is how Mickey Mouse is still under alleged copyright. RETROACTIVITY OF THE LAW, A (USA) CONTITUTIONALLY WRONG CONCEPT.

Het, Mickey Mouse is now free, in the public domain, at last, at least in Japan.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

Rafael Venegas

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