Politech archive on Eldred case: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=eldred --- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:08:10 -0400 From: Ernest Miller <ernest.millerat_private> To: declanat_private Subject: Briefs filed in Eldred v. Ashcroft The case concerns the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) which, following intense lobbying by media conglomerates such as Disney and Time Warner, was enacted by Congress in 1998 and extended the term of all existing and future copyrights by twenty years. Eric Eldred, who maintains a website that gives readers free access to materials whose copyrights have expired, challenged the CTEA with the assistance of the Openlaw project of the Berkman Center. Although Eldred has lost in both the district and appellate courts, the case has been accepted for review by the Supreme Court Read a short summary of one of the amicus briefs on LawMeme: http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/ Read all the briefs: http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/legal.html --- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:59:33 -0700 To: declanat_private From: Rick Prelinger <footageat_private> Subject: copyright extension Declan, Perhaps of interest... My company (Prelinger Archives, a for-profit moving image archives and stock footage supplier) and two non-profits, the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg, recently collaborated on an amicus brief for Eldred v. Ashcroft, the challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act due to be argued before the Supreme Court in the autumn. Basically we argue that a strong and constantly self-renewing public domain is critical, now that digital archives exist and make it feasible to deliver creative works to a broad public at low cost. The brief was authored by a number of lawyers including staff at the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley. You can read or download the brief here: http://www.prelinger.com/eldredbrief.pdf Best, Rick -- Rick Prelinger Prelinger Archives http://www.prelinger.com P.O. Box 590622, San Francisco, Calif. 94159-0622 +1 415 750-0445 Fax: +1 415 750-0607 footageat_private Internet Moving Images Archive: http://www.moviearchive.org --- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 22:15:49 -0400 To: declanat_private From: Jonathan Zittrain <zittrainat_private> Subject: eldred v. ashcroft briefs filed today Declan, The petitioners filed their opening briefs today in Eldred v. Ashcroft, the challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act now pending before the Supreme Court. Numerous amici filed in support as well, including multiple Nobel laureate economists, the Free Software Foundation, constitutional and IP law profs, the American Library Association, the Eagle Forum, the American Historical Association, distinguished historians, and Intel Corp. All in all an amazing group of people and institutions spanning the ideological and sectoral spectrums. Most of the briefs are available at <http://eldred.cc/news/#brief>, with general information at <http://eldred.cc> and <http://eldred.openlaw.org>. The next shoe to drop will be the government's reply sometime over the summer, our reply brief, and then argument in the fall. ...JZ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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