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A Case to Define the Digital Age - http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2002/tc20020927_7367.htm
"A Supreme Court ruling on a 20-year extension of copyright protection could decide much of what Web surfers get to see, hear, and share." By Jane Black. [Business Week]

Copyright Craziness - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=opinion&contentId=A22911-2001Aug16
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]

Diamonds and Copyrights Are Forever - http://www.thomasclaburn.com/2002/06/diamonds_and_copyrights_are_fo.html
Article about Eldred v. Reno's challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act. By Thomas Claburn. [Smart Business]

Eldred v. Ashcroft - http://eldred.cc/eldredvashcroft.html
Collection of materials, provided by the primary plaintiff. Includes timeline, text of court briefs, and links to articles, plaintiffs, and lawyers involved in the case.

Eldred v. Ashcroft Oral Arguments - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/09/1640249
News of arguments in the case against the retroactive 20-year copyright extension and forum discussion. [Slashdot]

Eldred v. Ashcroft: A Primer - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technology/articles/eldredprimer_100902.htm
Summary of issue and the arguments, and links to legal documents and other resources about the case over the constitutionality of the Copyright Term Extension Act. [Washington Post]

FindLaw: Eldred et al. v. Ashcroft, Attorney General - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=01-618
Text of the decision, with links to other cases cited.

Lawrence Lessig Makes His Debut Before the Supreme Court - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/10/9/183742/072
News and forum discussion of Lawrence Lessig's arguments to the US Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft. [kuro5hin]

Let the Stories Go - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/30/opinion/30LESS.html
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.]

New Rules for Using Public Domain Materials - http://copylaw.com/new_articles/PublicDomain.html
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.

One Man's Challenge to Copyright Restrictions on Online Publishing - http://chronicle.com/free/2001/04/2001040901t.htm
Interview with Eric Eldred about his constitutional challenge to the Sonny Bono Act. By Andrea L. Foster. [Chronicle of Higher Education]

Openlaw: Eldred v. Reno - http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvreno/
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 - http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/golanvashcroft/
Open law public forum for collaboration and discussion on the case challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and "restoration" of expired copyrights.

Opposing Copyright Extension - http://www.law.asu.edu/HomePages/Karjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/
Resources and information about legal and court cases challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Law.

The Mouse That Ate the Public Domain - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/07/0029229
"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]

The Mouse That Ate The Public Domain - http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_sprigman.html
"Disney, The Copyright Term Extension Act, and Eldred v. Ashcroft." By Chris Sprigman. [FindLaw's Writ]

The War On Perpetual Copyright Goes To The Supreme Court - http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/10/09/22470812
"The Stanford University law professor filed a suit ... which alleged that Congress had overstepped its authority in passing the 1998 'Copyright Term Extension Act'." News and discussion forum. [Plastic]

When Is Art Free? - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/06/11/p51s1.htm
Article presenting both sides of the term extension debate. By Gail Russell Chaddock. [Christian Science Monitor]

Why the Public Domain Is Not Just a Mickey Mouse Issue - http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2000/chicagozorich.html
Comments prepared for the NINCH Copyright Town Meeting on the Public Domain at the Chicago Historical Society by Diane M. Zorich.

Wikipedia: Copyright Term Extension Act - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Free encyclopedia entry about the act.

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