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MISTICA: News from the copyright front

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 12:47:01 AST

>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:05:01 -0400
>From: SDNP Newsmaster <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: NITNews for 10 April 2002
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>INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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>---- The Future of the Public Domain
>Eldred, a publisher of public domain works in HTML form, sued the federal
>government over Congress' passing of a law that extended existing
>copyrights for another 20 years (the 11th time in the past 40 years this
>has happened). The Constitution plainly allows Congress to grant authors
>an exclusive right "for limited times." If Congress is allowed to
>continually extend the time period, Eldred argued, the Framers' intent of
>"limited" protection is slowly being transformed to "unlimited."
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=4178&do=gpage
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>---- Copyright's next chapter
>Now a bill introduced last month in Congress, which attempts to protect
>copyrights in the age of CD burners and online file sharing, could break
>significant new ground. The bill, if enacted, would be a major departure
>in the way copyright law has evolved because instead of trying to control
>how people use the technology, the proposal focuses on controlling the
>technology itself.
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=4172&do=gpage

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