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From: goodguy@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Intellectual property/copyrights
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Date: 10 Jul 88 04:47:47 GMT
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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.