Appeals Court Rejects Copyright Extension Challenge
- From: "Jubi" <jubi@[redacted]>
- Subject: Appeals Court Rejects Copyright Extension Challenge
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:29:33 -0600
Though, I am sure that Eric, himself will fill us in, in due course, I
thought this may be of interest in the meantime.
From :
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/16/1850229
"Today the U.S. Court of Appeals handed down a decision in the Eldred
vs. Reno case, which challenged the most recent extension of copyright
terms on the grounds that it violated the Constitution in several areas
- that it violated the First Amendment by overbroadly restricting
speech; that it gave protection to non-original works (since it
retroactively applied to old, already-published works); and that the
constant extensions of copyright terms were not a "limited Time" as
required by the Constitution. The Court rejected all of these arguments.
However, one of the three judges in the case wrote an interesting
dissent, which at least holds out the hope that in some future case,
skilled litigators may be able to convince the judiciary that permanent
copyright is an unwarranted extension of Congress' powers. "
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