The Mouse that Ate Public Domain

On FindLaw, Chris Sprigman reports that the US Supreme Court will hear a suit challenging CTEA (The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act), good new for those interested in promoting progress in arts and sciences using copyright laws as they were originally intended.

Unless you earn your living as an intellectual property lawyer, you probably don't know that the Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Eldred v. Ashcroft , a case that will test the limits of Congress's power to extend the term of copyrights. But while copyright may not seem inherently compelling to non-specialists, the issues at stake in Eldred are vitally important to anyone who watches movies, listens to music, or reads books.

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