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HART'S OPINION [extract]
(on 'Challenges to Copyright Law Rejected By 9th Circuit')
By Michael Hart
Some sad news to report: the 9th Circuit has rejected constitutional
challenges to the copyright laws in *Kahle v. Gonzales*.
https://www.gutenbergnews.org/content/view/153/42/
The opinion is here. Sad, yes, but also positively maddening, for reasons I
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President, Richard Prelinger -- filed suit seeking a declaratory judgment that
Congress violated the Constitution when it removed our traditional system of
formalities from the copyright law.
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From the first U.S. copyright statute in 1790 until the Copyright Act of 1976,
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==============================[ PROGRESS REPORT ]===============================
Year: 2007
This Completes - Day: #028/364 | Week: #04 | Month: #01.00
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22,377 [+ 73] GRAND TOTAL
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239 PG U.S.
18 PG Australian
12 PG Europe
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12 eBooks REposted to the new filing system.
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* 83 per week in 2006
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* 79 per week in 2003
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* 360 per month in 2006
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* 4314 new eBooks in 2006
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Project Gutenberg Collection 22,196 eBooks
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Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus, by Jessie Graham Flower 9901
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Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College, by Jessie Graham Flower 6858
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Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School, by Jessie Graham Flower 4940
[Subtitle: or The Parting of the Ways]
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Letters of George Borrow, by George Borrow 603
[Editor: T. H. Darlow]
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A Mester, by Miklós Surányi 19744
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Impressions of Theophrastus Such, by George Eliot 10762
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The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 77
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Le Médicin Malgré Lui, by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (AKA Molière) 20498
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/9/20498 ]
[Files: 20498-8.txt; 20498-h.htm]
Bucholz and the Detectives, by Allan Pinkerton 20497
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/9/20497 ]
[Files: 20497.txt; 20497-h.htm]
Legends of the Rhine, by Wilhelm Ruland 20496
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/9/20496 ]
[Files: 20496.txt; 20496-8.txt; 20496-h.htm]
Um meeting na parvonia, by Anonymous 20495
[Subtitle: poemeto escripto num canto]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/9/20495 ]
[Files: 20495-8.txt]
Stories and Sketches, by Harriet S. Caswell 20493
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/9/20493 ]
[Files: 20493.txt; 20493-8.txt; 20493-h.htm]
Terry, by Rosa Mulholland 20492
[Subtitle: Or, She ought to have been a Boy]
[Illustrator: E. A. Cubitt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/9/20492 ]
[Files: 20492.txt; 20492-h.htm]
Kafir Stories, by William Charles Scully 20491
[Subtitle: Seven Short Stories]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/9/20491 ]
[Files: 20491.txt]
L'A. B. C. du libertaire, by Jules Lermina 20490
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/9/20490 ]
[Files: 20490-8.txt; 20490-h.htm]
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2, by J. Endell Tyler 20489
[Subtitle: Memoirs of Henry the Fifth]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/8/20489 ]
[Files: 20489.txt; 20489-8.txt; 20489-h.htm]
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1, by J. Endell Tyler 20488
[Subtitle: Memoirs of Henry the Fifth]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/8/20488 ]
[Files: 20488.txt; 20488-8.txt; 20488-h.htm]
Shakspere, Personal Recollections, by John A. Joyce 20487
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/8/20487 ]
[Files: 20487.txt; 20487-8.txt; 20487-h.htm]
Tiverton Tales, by Alice Brown 20486
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/8/20486 ]
[Files: 20486.txt; 20486-8.txt; 20486-h.htm]
The Lunatic at Large, by J. Storer Clouston 20485
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/8/20485 ]
[Files: 20485.txt; 20485-8.txt; 20485-0.txt; 20485-tei.tei;
20485-h.htm; 20485-pdf.pdf]
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II., by Pierce Egan 20484
[Subtitle: Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And
His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis;
Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters,
Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)]
[Illustrator: Heath, Aiken, Dighton, and Rowlandson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/8/20484 ]
[Files: 20484.txt; 20484-8.txt; 20484-h.htm]
Artillery Through the Ages, by Albert Manucy 20483
[Subtitle: A Short Illustrated History of Cannon,
Emphasizing Types Used in America]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/8/20483 ]
[Files: 20483.txt; 20483-8.txt; 20483-h.htm]
A José Estevão, by Raymundo Antonio de Bulhão Pato 20482
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/8/20482 ]
[Files: 20482-8.txt]
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July-December , 1864, by Various 20481
[Subtitle: Devoted to Literature and National Policy.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/8/20481 ]
[Files: 20481.txt; 20481-8.txt; 20481-h.htm]
Palmistry for All, by Cheiro 20480
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/8/20480 ]
[Files: 20480.txt; 20480-8.txt; 20480-h.htm]
Le Râmâyana, by Anonymous 20479
[Subtitle: Poème sanscrit de Valmiky]
[Translator: Hippolyte Fauche]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/7/20479 ]
[Files: 20479-8.txt; 20479-0.txt; 20479-h.htm]
Strong Souls, by Charles Beard 20478
[Subtitle: A Sermon]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/7/20478 ]
[Files: 20478.txt; 20478-h.htm]
The Bon Gaultier Ballads, by William Edmonstoune Aytoun 20477
[Author: Theodore Martin]
[Ill.: Richard Doyle]
[Ill.: Alfred Crowquill]
[Ill.: John Leech]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/7/20477 ]
[Files: 20477.txt; 20477-h.htm]
Hymns for Christian Devotion, by J.G. Adams and E.H. Chapin 20476
[Subtitle: Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/7/20476 ]
[Files: 20476.txt; 20476-8.txt; 20476-h.htm]
The Two Admirals, by J. Fenimore Cooper 20475
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/7/20475 ]
[Files: 20475.txt; 20475-8.txt; 20475-h.htm]
Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College, by Jessie Graham Flower 20474
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/7/20474 ]
[Files: 20474.txt; 20474-h.htm]
Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College, by Jessie Graham Flower 20473
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/7/20473 ]
[Files: 20473.txt; 20473-h.htm]
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School, by Jessie Graham Flower 20472
[Subtitle: The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/7/20472 ]
[Files: 20472.txt; 20472-8.txt; 20472-h.htm]
Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer, by Jessie Graham Flower 20471
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/7/20471 ]
[Files: 20471.txt; 20471-8.txt; 20471-h.htm]
Etiquette, by Agnes H. Morton 20470
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/7/20470 ]
[Files: 20470.txt; 20470-8.txt]
Ballads of Romance and Chivalry, by Frank Sidgwick 20469
[Subtitle: Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/6/20469 ]
[Files: 20469.txt; 20469-8.txt; 20469-0.txt; 20469-h.htm]
The Delta of the Triple Elevens, by William Elmer Bachman 20468
[Subtitle: The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army,
American Expeditionary Forces]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/6/20468 ]
[Files: 20468.txt; 20468-8.txt; 20468-h.htm]
Handbook of the Trees of New England, by Lorin Low Dame and Henry Brooks 20467
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/6/20467 ]
[Files: 20467.txt; 20467-8.txt; 20467-h.htm]
Itämeren risteilijä, by Viktor Rydberg 20466
[Translator: Emil Mannstén]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/6/20466 ]
[Files: 20466-8.txt]
Reize door Frankrijk, by Adriaan van der Willigen 20465
[Subtitle: In gemeenzame brieven, door Adriaan van der Willigen
aan den uitgever]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/6/20465 ]
[Files: 20465-8.txt; 20465-h.htm]
A Journey Through France in War Time, by Joseph G. Butler, Jr 20464
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/6/20464 ]
[Files: 20464.txt; 20464-h.htm]
Three Years on the Plains, by Edmund B. Tuttle 20463
[Subtitle: Observations of Indians, 1867-1870]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/6/20463 ]
[Files: 20463.txt; 20463-8.txt; 20463-h.htm]
Ernest Linwood, by Caroline Lee Hentz 20462
[Subtitle: or, The Inner Life of the Author]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/6/20462 ]
[Files: 20462.txt; 20462-8.txt; 20462-h.htm]
German Culture Past and Present, by Ernest Belfort Bax 20461
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/6/20461 ]
[Files: 20461.txt; 20461-8.txt; 20461-h.htm]
The Citizen-Soldier, by John Beatty 20460
[Subtitle: or, Memoirs of a Volunteer]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/6/20460 ]
[Files: 20460.txt; 20460-8.txt; 20460-h.htm]
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.), by Leslie Stephen 20459
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/5/20459 ]
[Files: 20459.txt; 20459-8.txt; 20459-h.htm]
The Triflers, by Frederick Orin Bartlett 20458
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/5/20458 ]
[Files: 20458.txt; 20458-8.txt; 20458-h.htm]
La Defaite des Sauvages Armouchiquois, by Marc L'escarbot 20457
[Full title: La Defaite des Sauvages Armouchiquois par le Sagamo
Membertou et ses alliez Sauvages, en la Nouvelle France,
au mois de Juillet]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/5/20457 ]
[Files: 20457-8.txt; 20457-h.htm]
Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts, by Cyrus Thomas 20456
[Subtitle: Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 3-66]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/5/20456 ]
[Files: 20456.txt; 20456-8.txt; 20456-h.htm]
True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado, Marshall 20455
[Full Author: Logan Marshall]
[Full Title: The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood,
Fire and Tornado]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/5/20455 ]
[Files: 20455.txt; 20455-8.txt; 20455-h.htm]
Sulhasen luona, by Robert Kiljander 20454
[Subtitle: Yksinäytöksinen laulunsekainen huvinäytelmä]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/5/20454 ]
[Files: 20454-8.txt]
The Christmas Child, by Hesba Stretton 20453
[Illustrator: K. Street]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/5/20453 ]
[Files: 20453.txt; 20453-h.htm]
Letters of Edward FitzGerald, by Edward FitzGerald 20452
[Editor: William Aldis Wright]
[Subtitle: in two volumes, Vol. 1]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/5/20452 ]
[Files: 20452.txt; 20452-h.htm]
The Confessions of Artemas Quibble, by Arthur Train 20451
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/5/20451 ]
[Files: 20451.txt; 20451-8.txt]
Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, by Alban Butler 20450
[Subtitle: January, February, March]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/5/20450 ]
[Files: 20450.txt; 20450-8.txt]
The Plum Tree, by David Graham Phillips 20449
[Illustrator: E. M. Ashe]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/4/20449 ]
[Files: 20449.txt; 20449-8.txt; 20449-h.htm]
The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers, by John Burroughs 20448
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/4/20448 ]
[Files: 20448.txt; 20448-8.txt; 20448-h.htm]
Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII., by Robert Green Ingersoll 20447
[Subtitle: Interviews]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/4/20447 ]
[Files: 20447.txt]
'America for Americans!', by John Philip Newman 20446
[Subtitle: The Typical American, Thanksgiving Sermon]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/4/20446 ]
[Files: 20446.txt; 20446-8.txt; 20446-h.htm]
The Coast of Chance, by Esther Chamberlain and Lucia Chamberlain 20445
[Illustrator: Clarence J Underwood]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/4/20445 ]
[Files: 20445.txt; 20445-8.txt; 20445-h.htm]
Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844, by Various 20444
[Subtitle: Volume 23, Number 3]
[Editor: Lewis Gaylord Clark]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/4/20444 ]
[Files: 20444.txt; 20444-8.txt; 20444-h.htm]
The Letter of the Contract, by Basil King 20443
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/4/20443 ]
[Files: 20443.txt; 20443-8.txt; 20443-h.htm]
Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms, Henry W. Shoemaker 20442
[Full title: A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and
Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks"]
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