Given the unstoppable force of users uploading content against the immovable object of rights holders attempting to control the distribution of their content, YouTube ostensibly did nothing.

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Though still a co-op, the building just adopted condo-style rules, limiting the rights of current owners to object to a potential new purchaser, according to brokers.

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Critics also contend that free religious expression based on a majority vote is inherently unconstitutional, since it infringes the rights of those, no matter how few, who may object.

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"The object of California's establishment of the legal relationship of domestic partnership is to grant committed same-sex couples rights equivalent to those accorded a married couple. but Proposition 8, by depriving same-sex couples of the right to marry, denies them the dignity, respect, and stature accorded similarly situated opposite-sex couples under state law, " the court brief said.

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