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In making their criticisms known, people who object to certain ideas are exercising the same rights as those who created and disseminated the material to which they object." [ 1 ] The first amendment right to voice opinions and persuade others—both for the exclusion and inclusion of content and concepts—should be protected.
The WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook gives two reasons for intellectual property laws: "One is to give statutory expression to the moral and economic rights of creators in their creations and the rights of the public in access to those creations. The second is to promote, as a deliberate act of Government policy, creativity and the ...
A difficulty posed by the idea-expression distinction is that "[n]obody has ever been able to fix that boundary, and nobody ever can", as Judge Learned Hand wrote for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1930's Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp., holding that while a fictional character can be copyrighted, it must be well-developed. [24]
Freedom of thought... is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. With rare aberrations a pervasive recognition of this truth can be traced in our history, political and legal. [3] Such ideas are also a vital part of international human rights law.
The right to life is the belief that a human (or other animal) has the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another entity. The concept of a right to life arises in debates on issues including: capital punishment, with some people seeing it as immoral; abortion, with some considering the killing of a human embryo or fetus immoral; euthanasia, in which the decision to end ...
“At the time following the Civil War, at its core, it meant all persons had the right to be protected by the police, that the laws of the country should protect all people,” Rosen says.
The marketplace of ideas is a rationale for freedom of expression based on an analogy to the economic concept of a free market.The marketplace of ideas holds that the truth will emerge from the competition of ideas in free, transparent public discourse and concludes that ideas and ideologies will be culled according to their superiority or inferiority and widespread acceptance among the ...
Either way, lawmakers will have to put their heads together and prioritize Social Security soon. After all, 2035 isn’t that far off and slashing benefits could push millions of seniors into or ...