Xref: utzoo comp.misc:2799 misc.legal:5200 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!portal!cup.portal.com!goodguy From: goodguy@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.legal Subject: Re: Intellectual property/copyrights Message-ID: <7239@cup.portal.com> Date: 10 Jul 88 04:47:47 GMT References: <9160@cisunx.UUCP> <1801@uhccux.UUCP> <807@netxcom.UUCP> <23618 Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 8 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2256 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. They said like under the old Copyright Act you can sue a state or an entity of a state and that the 11th Amendment was not a complete immunity shield against copyright suits. So you could probably expect some reversals. In other words, since you could nail a state during the time of the old Copyright Act, there's no reason why you can't do so today under the current Copyright Act. There was just some confusion as to applicability under the current Act.