Here's how I read this: Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and Congressional CIA Blackops Rat lines…Now will be shut down …Look at the weapons…Who was handing them off to our "enemies"?
Noticing you aren't addressing other facts..Bengahazi, Fast and Furious…Obama made this possible by handing control over to the state department…and how you do think these guns were released and sent to the wrong people? You need to look into all the backdoor deals that were going on.. with congressional approvals..you don't think they dealt with this honestly do you..you don't think they had some wifm in these deals..research..people died for no good reason families were torn apart..for no good reason other than power and greed.
Here's how I see this…you want this to fit in your picture of what you think it should be and that's fine…So we will agree to disagree…You don't like what POTUS just did here…Send him a letter.
Opening act…of the next phase.
Not sure why you aren't allowed…but there are many who can..sorry that you can't.
>blatantly unconstitutional
There is power in numbers..if you feel this strongly about it..feeling frustrated here will not change anything for you. However, there is nothing to stop you from getting together with others in your community who feel as you do, fight back through the courts, there are plenty of organizations willing to take something like this on.
Led Zeppelin Is Cleared in ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Case
Appeals court says British rock group didn’t steal the open from an obscure single by the band Spirit
Led Zeppelin didn’t steal the opening bars of “Stairway to Heaven," a federal appeals court ruled in a decision that music executives hope will slow claims that some of the most popular songs are rip-offs. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Monday put to rest a closely watched case that began in 2016 when a Los Angeles federal jury decided the British rock group didn’t steal parts of the 1971 hit from an obscure single, “Taurus,” by the band Spirit. ''The Ninth Circuit overturned that ruling in 2018, saying the judge made errors in the original case. The case was reheard en banc—meaning 11 appellate judges heard the case versus the typical panel of three—in September, with music lawyers anticipating the decision would set a precedent in an area of copyright law that has become increasingly contentious since the 2015 trial over the song ''“Blurred Lines.”
In that case, the scope of copyright infringement was extended beyond melody and lyrics to include elements contributing to the sound and feel of the music. In 2016, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s finding, and singer-songwriters Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were ordered to pay $5.3 million for copying the 1977 Marvin Gaye hit “Got to Give It Up.” Music lawyers point to that decision as the impetus for a slew of recent copyright cases, including one last year in which Katy Perry and collaborators of her 2013 hit “Dark Horse” were ordered to pay $2.8 million in damages for infringing on an 11-year-old Christian rap song. “Plaintiffs lawyers have started to say, ‘Let’s roll the dice’ if there’s a song that makes a ton of money, and juries have been siding with the plaintiffs,” said music-trial litigator Ed McPherson, a copyright specialist who filed an amicus brief in support of Led Zeppelin. “I think it will put a pin in the floodgates that really started opening with ‘Blurred Lines.’” On Monday, Mr. McPherson and others applauded the Ninth Circuit’s overturning of the “inverse-ratio rule.”
In copyright cases, juries must determine whether the defendant could have accessed the alleged infringed song and whether the songs are substantially similar. The inverse-ratio rule held that the more access a plaintiff could show, the less similarity was required to establish infringement. With the rise of music streaming on services like YouTube and Spotify, the concept of access is “increasingly diluted in our digitally interconnected world,” the court said in its overturning of the rule. Additionally, the court said copyright protection is limited to the deposit copy, or what is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. That means if only sheet music is contained in the deposit copy—as is the case with most older songs, including “Stairway to Heaven”—the jury cannot hear a sound recording to consider how the song was performed.
“The value of a copyright case if a song is from the 60s or 70s probably just went down,” said Christopher Buccafusco, a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York who also filed an amicus brief. The court’s decision also limits the scope of copyright protection, saying that in cases where plaintiffs are claiming infringement on common musical themes or elements, the copyright is thin and they must prove the alleged copied work is virtually identical. “That makes it much harder to bring cases about tiny chunks of songs. Those cases will be much harder to win now,” Mr. Buccafusco said. “My guess is the amount of money crossing the table will be diminished.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/led-zeppelin-cleared-in-stairway-to-heaven-case-11583791273?mod=hp_lista_pos2
I remember reading about this when it first started, sounds like the Plaintiff, (unknown to the rest of the world) felt they were owed royalties on the beginning rips of the song. My impression was they watched what happened with Pink Floyd, when the band had to fork royalty money over to the children who sang in the "Education" song, and thought they had a payday.
Scotts is very big in tp as well..not so much in tissue,..