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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Intellectual property/copyrights
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Date: 15 Jul 88 15:58:31 GMT
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In article <7239@cup.portal.com> goodguy@cup.portal.com writes:
>The Federal Copyright Office has ruled on the general situation concerning
>the 11th Amendment whether you can sue a state or a entity of a state for
>copyright infringement.

      The "Federal Copyright Office"?  Patents and trademarks are handled
by the Patent Office, a unit of the Department of Commerce.  Copyrights
are handled by a unit of the Library of Congress.

      In any case, opinions of the relevant administrative agencies on
constitutional issues are just that; opinions of administrative agencies.
The courts must rule on such issues.

					John Nagle