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“It’s not a new problem, but a major one.”
That’s just one big problem that has been going on for five years. In 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court held that even a new copyright law should be considered a “new creation” under the copyright laws of the United States. This ruling is a major blow. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. copyright law can be applied in any creative process, “by virtue of the fact that the use of the work in a particular form or manner is an independent, voluntary act so long as there is an underlying right to the use.” In a landmark opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia made the case with support for the new copyright law.