Semi-OT: Congress about to limit artists' copyright rights

[Luke -Jr]

On Sunday 01 June 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
> > On Friday 30 May 2008, Billy Crook wrote:
> > > How *fair* do you think it is that you are able today,
> > > to spend hundreds of hours on some work only to discover
> > > (after you've spent thousands, millions of your own
> > > money) to bring your idea to market, that there was some
> > > prior work with copyright that you had NO WAY to know
> > > about, but yet now, all your time, and all your money is
> > > in vain.
>
> Billy Crook is clearly talking about *patents*, not copyrights, in his
> paragraph above.

Actually, I thought it pretty clear from the rest of his message that he meant 
what he said.