However, the formality of the power structure was thrown into stark relief when the US government under George W Bush intervened directly on the subject of .xxx domain names, and then moved responsibility for certain naming from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Iana) to Icann.

BBC: Technology

They are decisions of a kind for which the judiciary has neither aptitude, facilities, nor responsibility, and have long been held to belong in the domain of political power, not subject to judicial intrusion or inquiry.

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Enacted in 1994, Section 514 restores copyrights in foreign works previously in the public domain for failure to comply with formalities, lack of subject matter protection or lack of national eligibility, according to the opinion.

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