Re: your friendly correspondent from the US presents: Free Sampling Killed by Court of Appeals

David Damerell <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:48:16 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.law.eucd.ukcdr
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On Sunday, 19 Sep 2004, Jim Peters wrote:
>A question: Have the bad guys always been this bad?  Has ownership
>ever been pushed so far and enforced so rigidly before?  Or is this
>something special to our times?

The Highland Clearances spring to mind, unless you mean specifically
copyright and the like - similar to the situation in the UK post CDPA
'88 in that we never had the rights we supposed we did, but that's now
being enforced.

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