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Home / Society / Issues / Intellectual Property / Copyrights / Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
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- A Mickey Mouse Copyright Law? - Article about Eldred v. Reno case to overturn the copyright extension act. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired]
www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,17327,00.html
- All Roads Lead to Rome - "As an economic matter, the CTEA amounts to a state giveaway of public domain property, pure and simple." By Richard Epstein. [Financial Times]
news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&cid=1031119055342&p=1020498309075
- Copyright Craziness - Editorial supporting the Eldred case. "Vast quantities of creative material shouldn't be perpetually owned privately, and Congress's repeated extensions of protection to copyright holders have shredded any meaningful limit." [Washington Post]
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=opinion&contentId=A22911-2001Aug16
- Copyright Extension - Arguments in favor of the Copyright Extension Act. Includes the text of the bill and statements of its authors before Congress.
www.copyrightextension.com
- Copyright Extension - Information on the background of copyright extension, why it has occurred and other helpful information concerning it.
www.copyrightextension.org
- Copyright Term Extension: Congress Enacts a Mickey Mouse Law and Legislation for the New Millennium - News of CTEA and other "intellectual property" laws passed by Congress. By David Roy Ellis. [Clearwater Bar Association]
www.clwbar.org/resipsa/jan99/copyright.html
- Copyright's Crusade - Extensive article on the background of the Eldred case challenging the constitutionality of term extensions, including how much the media companies have contributed to the political war chests of key congressional players. By Daren Fonda. [Boston Globe]
www.boston.com/globe/magazine/8-29/featurestory1.shtml
- Diamonds and Copyrights Are Forever - Article about Eldred v. Reno's challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act. By Thomas Claburn. [Smart Business]
techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2598234,00.html
- How Long Should Copyright Last? Supreme Court to Decide - "The Supreme Court has agreed to look into whether Congress had the authority to make this last in a series of 11 extensions of the copyright term." News and discussion forum. [Plastic]
www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=02/02/19/2128204
- Let the Stories Go - Editorial citing the lawsuit against "The Wind Done Gone" as an example of what's wrong with copyright term extension. By Lawrense Lessig. [New York Times] [Free registration required.]
archive.nytimes.com/2001/04/30/opinion/30LESS.html
- New Rules for Using Public Domain Materials - How to determine what is in the public domain in the US after the Copyright Term Extension Act. Discusses trademark and right of publicity issues that may burden otherwise "rights-free" materials.
copylaw.com/new_articles/PublicDomain.html
- One Man's Challenge to Copyright Restrictions on Online Publishing - Interview with Eric Eldred about his constitutional challenge to the Sonny Bono Act. By Andrea L. Foster. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
chronicle.com/free/2001/04/2001040901t.htm
- Openlaw: Eldred v. Reno - Open law public forum for collaboration and discussion on the case challenging the Bono Act's 20 year extension of the copyright terms.
eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvreno
- Openlaw: Golan v. Ashcroft - Open law public forum for collaboration and discussion on the case challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and "restoration" of expired copyrights.
eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/golanvashcroft
- Opposing Copyright Extension - Resources and information about legal and court cases challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Law.
www.law.asu.edu/HomePages/Karjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension
- Righting Copywrongs - "Maybe we ought to stop coddling the Scrooge McDucks and free Steamboat Willie." By James Surowiecki. [New Yorker]
www.newyorker.com/THE_TALK_OF_THE_TOWN/CONTENT/?020121ta_talk_surowiecki
- Strangling Culture with a Copyright Law - Editorial by Steve Zeitlin opposing pending copyright extension. Summarizes public interest issues and notes that Disney is leading campaign along with ASCAP and Gershwin Family Trust. [New York Times] [Full text requires payment.]
query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=FA0D1FF7395B0C768EDDAD0894D0494D81
- The Mouse That Ate the Public Domain - "Antitrust lawyer Chris Sprigman has written a thoughtful column in Findlaw's Writ on the issues behind the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act and the legal challenge (Eldred v. Ashcroft) to that law." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/07/0029229
- The Mouse That Ate The Public Domain - "Disney, The Copyright Term Extension Act, and Eldred v. Ashcroft." By Chris Sprigman. [FindLaw's Writ]
writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_sprigman.html
- When Is Art Free? - Article presenting both sides of the term extension debate. By Gail Russell Chaddock. [Christian Science Monitor]
www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/06/11/p51s1.htm
- Why the Public Domain Is Not Just a Mickey Mouse Issue - Comments prepared for the NINCH Copyright Town Meeting on the Public Domain at the Chicago Historical Society by Diane M. Zorich.
www.ninch.org/copyright/2000/chicagozorich.html
- Wikipedia: Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act - Free encyclopedia entry about the act.
www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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