Sentence examples for a perpetual term from inspiring English sources

And, he claims, Congress's 11 extensions of copyright in the past 40 years amounts to a "perpetual term on the instalment plan", not the limited time authorised by the constitution.Most experts believe that Mr Lessig will lose his case, as he has already done in two lower courts.

(statement of the Register of Copyrights) (In Copyright Office proceedings, "[t]he Songwriters Guild suggested a perpetual term"); id., at 234 (statement of Quincy Jones) ("I'm particularly fascinated with Representative Hoke's statement.... [W]hy not forever?"); id., at 277 (statement of Quincy Jones) ("If we can start with 70, add 20, it would be a good start").

If JUSTICE BREYER'S calculations were a basis for holding the CTEA unconstitutional, then the 1976 Act would surely fall as well, for — under the same assumptions he indulges — the term set by that Act secures 99.4% of the value of a perpetual term.

But to say that someone is "anti-copyright" because they argue for a more "limited" term is as fallacious as arguing that someone is in favor of a perpetual term merely because he argues the term should be longer.

Our only argument is, this is a structural limit necessary to assure that what would be an effectively perpetual term not be permitted under the copyright laws.

Retro has become a perpetual condition.

Project design Prior to 2006, both a report commissioned by the EC and a comprehensive Joint Needs Assessment recommended to steer away from the long term costs of a perpetual short term, project focused approach to health system intervention in Somalia and pay more programmatic attention to broader health system analysis and capacity building.

Perpetual terms were thus ruled out.

Sure, Congress would have to give us (again quoting Jaszi) perpetual terms on the installment plan.

But what in what you wrote suggests that you don't want perpetual terms?

For the Obama administration, an allergy to congressional authorisation is enmeshed with the president's stated desire to end what he last year termed a "perpetual war" footing.