Re: Wow..... how could you possibly have gotten things this wrong.
I'm sorry, but this is extremely factually erroneous.In the first instance, the 1st Amendment does not 'trump' copyright in any way shape or form; both are intended to protect IP creators and rights owners; from the government, in the former case and from the unscrupulous in the latter. Your purchase of a book entitles you to a defined set of rights; you can read it, loan it, quote it or burn it, and that's about all. You do not then own the content any more than using Google means you own Google.The courts have ruled and the congress has legislated that there are inherent rights in an expression, as soon as it's in a fixed form or medium; THAT is the law of the land.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
