[dozzie]

>> The strength of a defense based on the non-copyrightability of pornography rests on whether pornography promotes the progress of science and useful arts as prescribed by the Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Hollywood movies don't promote "useful arts" nor "science", so they should be denied copyrightibility as well.

[technofiend]

Although I disagree and would argue a movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is very much useful art, I'm also in favor of rolling back the last thirty years of Disney and MPAA-sponsored legislation and restoring copying duration to something reasonable like 30 years and throwing out the DMCA entirely.

[kefka]

Good luck with that.

Even the new BOTS act passed yesterday, section 1 includes the similar language preventing actions the same way the DMCA does.

[emodendroket]

I think cinema is pretty well established as an art.