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Copyright Questions: Help us add colorful facts to the brief.

• How many publishers were granted monopolies by the original copyright act in 1790?
• What works might never have been created if they couldn't draw from a rich public domain?
• Examples collected here.

Draft Appeal Brief now online Comment on the brief here or add to the discussion here.

Comment on the amicus brief legal historian Edward Walterscheid is preparing for the plaintiffs in Eldred v. Reno to show why the Bono Act's term extension does not fit copyright's historical context.