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Eldred vs. Ashcroft: will there be a round II?
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Monday, February 23 @ 20:47:41 EST
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Anonymous writes "Regarding the Supreme Court decision on Eldred vs. Ashcroft, which allowed extending corporate copyrights to be 95 years long, Douglas Keenan has a new argument against the constitutionality of the copyright extension (PDF).

The basic idea is this: the duration of 95 years is not significantly shorter than the duration of perpetuity (you'll have to read the article for the explanation). If this is correct, then 95-year copyrights must be unconstitutional (because the constitution says a copyright cannot be perpetual). Larry Lessig has blogged it for comments."

 
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Re: Eldred vs. Ashcroft: will there be a round II? (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 25 @ 11:06:49 EST
Will there be a round II?
No.


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