Re: Copyright

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:35:23 GMT, "The Meikles"
<action1@telusplanet.net> wrote:

>NOT that I want to open a can of worms here, but as we're both Canucks, I
>can and will use Canadian examples to prove that the above statement is not
>entirely accurate.

True.  After reading that statement again it didn't come out quite the
way I meant it to but it is pretty close.

In your example of the porn possession, I'm sure that the judge did
not make the decision on his own.  He most likely consulted a number
of people to get their opinions and to make sure he would be justified
in ignoring the law.  There may have even been an appeal done in this
case as well and if the subsequent judge(s) also agreed, that is what
got the government scrambling to fix the law.

In the example of the Turkey Marketing Board, you even said that it
went to appeal and that the law hadn't changed yet.  Again, there is
more than one judge involved and in this case there is no guarantee
that others won't still be charged under that law.

By the way, for a precedent to be set, there usually needs to be more
than one case to support, I believe.  I could be wrong, though.

Basically, my wording came out bad.  A single judge can instigate
change but they almost never can cause the change to happen by
themselves.

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