not, and for that, Disney and Universal wanted to hold it responsible
for the architecture it chose.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxcongressusoncopyrightlaws3' class='startofrange'><primary>Congress, U.S.</primary><secondary>on copyright laws</secondary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Congress, U.S.</primary><secondary>on VCR technology</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
MPAA president Jack Valenti became the studios' most vocal
champion. Valenti called VCRs <quote>tapeworms.</quote> He warned, <quote>When there are
</para></footnote>
</para>
</blockquote>
+<indexterm startref='idxcongressusoncopyrightlaws3' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
Congress was asked to respond to the Supreme Court's decision. But as
with the plea of recording artists about radio broadcasts, Congress
controlled film? Should every cover band have to hire a lawyer to get
permission to record a song?
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Supreme Court, U.S.</primary><secondary>on balance of interests in copyright law</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
We could answer yes to each of these questions, but our tradition
has answered no. In our tradition, as the Supreme Court has stated,
table, and putting it in my backyard? What is the thing I am taking
then?
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Jefferson, Thomas</primary></indexterm>
<para>
The point is not just about the thingness of picnic tables versus
ideas, though that's an important difference. The point instead is that
owner. He is effectively arguing for a change in our Constitution
itself.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxjeffersonthomas' class='startofrange'><primary>Jefferson, Thomas</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Arguing for a change in our Constitution is not necessarily wrong.
There was much in our original Constitution that was plainly wrong.
did they require that for creative property there must be a public
domain?
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxjeffersonthomas' class='endofrange'/>
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<para>
To answer this question, we need to get some perspective on the
history of these <quote>creative property</quote> rights, and the control that they
who help build the public domain and, by their work, demonstrate the
importance of the public domain to other creativity.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>Jefferson, Thomas</primary></indexterm>
<para>
The aim is not to fight the <quote>All Rights Reserved</quote> sorts. The aim is to
complement them. The problems that the law creates for us as a culture