Home >> Society >> Issues >> Intellectual Property >> Copyrights >> Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act Opposing Copyright Extension Resources and information about legal and court cases challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Law. A Mickey Mouse Copyright Law? Article about Eldred v. Reno case to overturn the copyright extension act. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired] When Is Art Free? Article presenting both sides of the term extension debate. By Gail Russell Chaddock. [Christian Science Monitor] 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.] 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. 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. 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] 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] 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] 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]
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