Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court: The questions today, especially the initial questions, suggest one of the many insurmountable obstacles to petitioners' petition in, position in this case. That is that the first Congress explicitly gave copyright protection to the authors of any books already printed as well as explicitly the owners of existing copyrights.

Can we draw the following conclusion?
Authors of printed books do not have copyright protection

OPTIONS:
[+] Yes;
[+] It's impossible to say;
[+] No;
No