![]() ![]() The appellate finding said that the law ``confers upon a religious body an unusual measure of copyright protection by unusual means, and in a fashion that interjects the federal government into internal church disputes over the authenticity of religious texts.'' A three-judge panel of the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia agreed in an opinion handed down Tuesday. UCS filed suit and a United States District Court held that the copyright extension was a violation of the concept of separation of church and state. ![]() The court sided with a group of church dissidents, United Christian Scientists (UCS), who claimed that they were hindered from periodically distributing recordings of materials about Christian Science. A federal appeals court has struck down a 1971 federal law extending the copyright of ``Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,'' the Christian Science textbook. ![]()
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