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I am happy to be able to put in a few words regarding States abusing copyright.
The CRCA (Copyright Clarification Act) was instigated by my wife and myself when UCLA, a state university, pirated numerous copies of 7 different software programs properly copyrighted by our small company see "BV Engineering vs UCLA copyrig BV Engineering v. University of California, 858 F.2d 1394 | Casetext
If it had been a private school such as USC they would have been liable but the State if California claimed that we had no right for justice because you can't take a State to Federal court. You have to seek recess in State courts. Since States are not allowed to have their own copyright laws (because the there would be 50 different ones) we were in a catch 22 situation - no redress in State courts and no redress in Federal courts.
In the end we agreed to non-retroactive justice if the copyright laws were changed to specifically include the States. Testified before a congressional hearing in the Rayburn building in Washington DC on CSPAN TV to settle the deal.
Got so disgusted with California that we decided to move our company out of California and do our diving in New Zealand instead
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