| A Case to Define the Digital Age: "A Supreme Court ruling on a 20-year extension of copyright protection could decide much of what Web surfers get to see, hear, and share." By Jane Black. [Business Week] |
| awrence Lessig Makes His Debut Before the Supreme Court: News and forum discussion of Lawrence Lessig's arguments to the US Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft. [kuro5hin] |
| Copyright Craziness: Editorial supporting the Eldred case. "Vast quantities of creative material shouldn't be perpetually owned privately, and Congress's repeated extensions of protection to copyright holders have shredded any meaningful limit." [Washington Post] |
| Diamonds and Copyrights Are Forever: Article about Eldred v. Reno's challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act. By Thomas Claburn. [Smart Business] |
| Eldred v. Ashcroft: Collection of materials, provided by the primary plaintiff. Includes timeline, text of court briefs, and links to articles, plaintiffs, and lawyers involved in the case. |
| Eldred v. Ashcroft Oral Arguments: News of arguments in the case against the retroactive 20-year copyright extension and forum discussion. [Slashdot] |
| Eldred v. Ashcroft: A Primer: Summary of issue and the arguments, and links to legal documents and other resources about the case over the constitutionality of the Copyright Term Extension Act. [Washington Post] |
| FindLaw: Eldred et al. v. Ashcroft, Attorney General: Text of the decision, with links to other cases cited. |
| Let the Stories Go: Editorial citing the lawsuit against "The Wind Done Gone" as an example of what's wrong with copyright term extension. By Lawrense Lessig. [New York Times] [Free registration required.] |
| Mouse Trapped: Discusses shifts in the perceived purposes of copyright law from public benefits to author profits. By Mike Godwin. [The American Lawyer] |
| New Rules for Using Public Domain Materials: How to determine what is in the public domain in the US after the Copyright Term Extension Act. Discusses trademark and right of publicity issues that may burden otherwise "rights-free" materials. |
| One Man's Challenge to Copyright Restrictions on Online Publishing: Interview with Eric Eldred about his constitutional challenge to the Sonny Bono Act. By Andrea L. Foster. [Chronicle of Higher Education] |
| Openlaw: Eldred v. Reno: Open law public forum for collaboration and discussion on the case challenging the Bono Act's 20 year extension of the copyright terms. |
| Openlaw: Golan v. Ashcroft: Open law public forum for collaboration and discussion on the case challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and "restoration" of expired copyrights. |
| Opposing Copyright Extension: Resources and information about legal and court cases challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Law. |
| Righting Copywrongs: "Maybe we ought to stop coddling the Scrooge McDucks and free Steamboat Willie." By James Surowiecki. [New Yorker] |
| Strangling Culture with a Copyright Law: Editorial by Steve Zeitlin opposing pending copyright extension. Summarizes public interest issues and notes that Disney is leading campaign along with ASCAP and Gershwin Family Trust. [New York Times] [Full text requires payment.] |
| Supreme Court: Eldred v. Ashcroft: Official text of the decision upholding the copyright extension act, in PDF format. (801K) |
| The Mouse That Ate the Public Domain: "Antitrust lawyer Chris Sprigman has written a thoughtful column in Findlaw's Writ on the issues behind the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act and the legal challenge (Eldred v. Ashcroft) to that law." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot] |
| The Mouse That Ate The Public Domain: "Disney, The Copyright Term Extension Act, and Eldred v. Ashcroft." By Chris Sprigman. [FindLaw's Writ] |
| The War On Perpetual Copyright Goes To The Supreme Court: "The Stanford University law professor filed a suit ... which alleged that Congress had overstepped its authority in passing the 1998 'Copyright Term Extension Act'." News and discussion forum. [Plastic] |
| When Is Art Free?: Article presenting both sides of the term extension debate. By Gail Russell Chaddock. [Christian Science Monitor] |
| Why the Public Domain Is Not Just a Mickey Mouse Issue: Comments prepared for the NINCH Copyright Town Meeting on the Public Domain at the Chicago Historical Society by Diane M. Zorich. |
| Wikipedia: Copyright Term Extension Act: Free encyclopedia entry about the act. |
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