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...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...gress’s vast, wonderful pudding of songs and pictures and films and books and magazines and newspapers, there is perhaps a hand- ful of raisins’ worth ... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...nt of the romantic theory of authorship in the context of contemporary Anglo-American copyright law. But when one looks at the his- tory of the French... ... in restraint of trade” or the Supreme Court decisions that dispossessed the American Indians on the theory that they did not comprehend the concept o...