[i] The Court re-affirmed these principles stating the following: The Copyright Act strikes “a balance between promoting the public interest in the encouragement and dissemination of works of the arts and intellect and obtaining a just reward for the creator… It seeks to ensure that an author will reap the benefits of his efforts, in order to incentivize the creation of new works. [read post]

Perhaps now is a good time to re-read  in the quite different light of the second decade of the 21st century an interesting foreign observation of American political culture written in the beginning of the third decade of the 20th century--Édouard Lambert,  Le Gouvernement des juges et la lutte contre la législation sociale aux États-Unis. [read post]