If you're planning to attend the hearing, check out: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/visiting/visitorsguidetooralargument.pdf The Internet Archive bookmobile will be in town: http://www.archive.org/texts/bookmobile.php -Declan --- http://news.com.com/2010-1071-960918.html Perspective: Coming to terms with copyright By Declan McCullagh October 7, 2002, 4:00 AM PT Anyone interested in the future direction of technology should pay attention to a case the U.S. Supreme Court will hear when the new session begins this week. Technically, the oral arguments on Wednesday are about the fate of a federal law called the Copyright Term Extension Act, which extends the duration of all U.S. copyrights for 20 years. A group of artists and moviemakers sued to overturn the law, saying they had hoped to make use of materials that were in the public domain--but found they no longer could because of the longer duration of each copyright. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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