Human Rights Bill

What we have here is a law clearly in violation of human rights. Liiftl wrote to a good number of Deputies to the National Assembly and asked them whether at the time they had voted this bill into law they had desired the sort of thing that was happening to him. A single deputy wrote back ... 

The texts of the UDHR and other components of the International Bill of Human Rights are available at [2]. 

Ed McCaughan and Bill Felice, Human Rights Peoples Rights Views from North and South , 16 Social Justice (1989). 

Lamartine s rhetoric, which rests on a glorification of the creative act (presented as a sacrifice, the artist / creator assuming a Christ-like position by offering his work to humanity) and an exploitation of the myth of the poverty-stricken artist, underlines what he sees as the injustice of the situation in 1841. This injustice is clearly seen in economic rather than aesthetic terms Romanticism and capitalism link up in Lamartine s rhetoric to defend literary property as a natural right. By equating intellectual work with any other work, the poet makes indeed perpetual literary property the only logical conclusion to his demonstration and presents his bill for a fifty-year posthumous right... 

So let us focus our attention on some human needs. There are a few real needs, and there are the manufactured ones. Whether the market is real or synthetic, you must first convince yourself that the market is there and is big enough to justify your effort. Then you must convince some bill-payer that you are right. 

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