Eldred v. Ashcroft

Links

Reference Sources: A growing list

• OpenContent
• James H. Johnston, Putting Robert Frost on Ice, Legal Times (Feb. 22, 1999)
• Robert L. Bard & Lewis Kurantzick, COPYRIGHT DURATION: Duration, Term Extension, and the Making of Copyright Policy.
• Steve H. Lee, Open Source Software Licensing. PDF format || PS format

Featured Argument Bibliographies

• First Amendment - Strict Scrutiny

Self-reference

• Slashdot on Openlaw
• Wired News: Open Source in Open Court
• Commons Law
• Von Open Source zu Open Law
• Free is Still Good, LinuxMall

Copyrights

• A brief history of copyright law
• A list of all renewed 1923 book copyrights.
• A more detailed look at copyrights
• What was the intent of the Constitutional Framers?
• Teresa Ou, From Wheaton v. Peters to Eldred v. Reno: An Originalist Interpretation of the Copyright Clause

Public Trust Doctrine

• What is public trust doctrine?
• What is the relevance of public trust doctrine to CTEA?
• New Property
• The Internet and the Public Trust
• Constitutional Arguments
• CTEA Purpose
• European Union Directive

Professor Jaszi attached this chart illustrating the stunted growth of the public domain.

See also Prof. Dennis Karjala's Opposing Copyright Extension website and Prof. Malla Pollack's What is Congress Supposed to Promote?, interpreting the Constitution's "Progress Clause"