Rattle wrote:

In the United States, intellectual property, or IP, law ensures that creators and inventors will get paid for their work, while doctrines like fair use and time-limited rights leave enough breathing room for the next innovator to use existing creations to comment, critique or make something new. But we have increasingly seen owners leverage their IP rights to get control rather than to get paid.

Jennifer Granick has an article on Wired about how the National Academy of Sciences and others are using the "copyright misuse" doctrine in a strategy to wrangle Kansas into not teaching intelligent design.

I fully agree with her that using this type of tactic is very bad. Fighting a bad problem by using bad law creates an even worse problem.

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True...
They should consider suing for libel. How would you like to have a respectable science book, and be suddenly responsible for the "science" that kansas is making. "Oh look... It's that book that makes people STUPID!" It's like painting a picture, selling it to someone... And that person wipes his ass on it and sells it in your name in a very public sale. If they want to sell "shit" they should be the ones to take responsibility for it.

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