DC Circuit Upholds Copyright Term Extension Act
Eldred v. Reno, DC Cir., No. 99-5430, February 16, 2001.
"The plaintiffs in this case, corpo- rations, associations, and individuals
who rely for their vocations or avocations upon works in the public domain,
challenge the constitutionality of the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998
(CTEA), Pub. L. No. 105-298, 112 Stat. 2827. This marks the first occasion
for an appellate court to address whether the First Amendment or the
Copyright Clause of the Constitution of the United States constrains the
Congress from extending for a period of years the duration of copy- rights,
both those already extant and those yet to come. We hold that neither does."
http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/200102/99-5430a.txt
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