WHEN Parliament decided, in 1709, to create a law that would protect books from piracy, the London-based publishers and booksellers who had been pushing for such protection were overjoyed.
Adopted in 1789, possibly to target pirates, the statute allows for civil actions by aliens for wrongful ACTS "committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States".
If the film doesn't have legs, does that mean they made a movie so good that people are going to pirate it or is it that they just want to see "Star Trek" that weekend instead?
If the film doesn't have legs, does that mean they made a movie so good that people are going to pirate it or is it that they just want to see "Star Trek" that weekend instead?