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Four Remaining Questions About Copyright Law After Eldred
Posted by Raul Ruiz on Tuesday, February 18 @ 13:24:16 EST
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Anonymous writes "The U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the Copyright Tem Extension Act is controversial, evoking strong feelings among copyright owners, lawyers and academics. Yet, in this author's view, the decision is neither ground-breaking nor different from prior Supreme Court precedents in the field of copyright law. In this article, Peter K. Yu raises and discusses four important questions about copyright law in light of Eldred v. Ashcroft.
http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2003/yu-2003-02.html
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Lame (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 19 @ 09:32:30 EST
Wu's article is extremely lame. Here is just one example of its myopia:

Indeed, the public interest safeguards -- such as the idea-expression dichotomy and the fair use privilege -- are just as important as the grant of the right itself.

But the most important public interest safeguard of all in copyright law is copyright expiration. Neither the Eldred majority nor Wu seem to appreciate its importance.


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