From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 11:14:22 MDT
> (Robert J. Bradbury <bradbury@aeiveos.com>):
>
> I was unaware that Lawrence Lessig, currently a professor of Law
> at Stanford, is attempting to overturn the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright
> Term Extension Act (otherwise known as the Mickey Mouse Preservation
> Act). Though suffering two defeats in lower courts thus far the
> Supreme Court is apparently going to hear the case.
>
> The complete background, in a rather nicely detailed article is
> in this month's Wired here:
>
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/lessig_pr.html
>
> This is a real live test of freedom for the "people" vs.
> corporate intellectual property law abuse.
This is old news to some of us (I'm sure I've even mentioned
it here); more details can be found at http://eldred.cc .
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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