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US District Court: Restoration of Copyright in Public Domain Foreign Works Is
Unconstitutional
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| The US District Court for the District of Colorado has just granted a motion
| for summary judgment in Golan v. Holder you will want to know about. It is a
| very big deal. Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use Project at
| Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, who led this effort, says, "It is
| the first time a court has held any part of the Copyright Act violates the
| First Amendment and the first time any court has placed specific
| constitutional limits on the government's ability to erode the public
| domain." I read it as saying that nothing, not any treaty, not even the Berne
| Convention, can trump the US Constitution.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090405224406465
Court Rules Part Of Copyright Act Unconstitutional
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090403/1619494384.shtml
Recent:
Yet Another Copyright Lobbying Group Caught Infringing
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| These days, it's nearly impossible not to infringe on copyright in one way or
| another during your regular day -- but it's always amusing when big-time
| copyright supporters are caught infringing (and it seems to happen quite
| frequently). The latest is musicFIRST, the lobbying group funded (potentially
| illegally) by the recording industry, which has been pushing a campaign
| claiming that radio is piracy and demanding that radio stations pay even more
| royalties than they already do.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090402/2014424364.shtml
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