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[FYI] Eternal copyright to be challenged in high court
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- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:31:43 +0200
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27475.html
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Eternal copyright to be challenged in high court
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 08/10/2002 at 01:17 GMT
The US Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in Eldred v.
Ashcroft this week, in which the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998
will be challenged.
The legislation, which extended existing copyrights an additional
twenty years, was originally conceived by talent powerhouse Sonny
Bono and is coplloquially known by his name, and also as the "Mickey
Mouse Act" because of the intense lobbying pressure Disney brought to
bear on Congress in getting it passed just as old Mick was set to
pass into the public domain.
The good fight is spearheaded by Stanford Univers
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