[openlaw] Righting Copywrongs

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More reading on the error of copyright over-extension, as we continue to
await word from the Supreme Court whether it will hear Eldred v. Ashcroft.

This week's New Yorker reviews copyright history and concludes that "the
government forgot about balance" when it used the Sonny Bono Act to add 20
years to Mickey Mouse's life:
<http://www.newyorker.com/THE_TALK_OF_THE_TOWN/CONTENT/?020121ta_talk_surow
iecki>
(or <http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2062505> -- if the first URL splits)


The Washington Post called the term extension "Copyright Craziness," in an
editorial last summer, and said the Eldred case "would be well worth the
justices' time":
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/A22911-2001Aug16.html>


Prof. Dennis S. Karjala has a trove of background materials on the
copyright term extension and the cases challenging it: 
<http://www.law.asu.edu/HomePages/Karjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/>

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