[FYI] Larry Lessig today filed a new constitutional challenge to the copyright laws.
<http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=04/03/22/2042205>
Anonymous Coward writes "Larry Lessig and his friends at the Stanford
Law School Center for Internet and Society today filed a new
constitutional challenge to the copyright laws. The focus of the new
lawsuit (styled Kahle v. Ashcroft) is the consequences of the removal
of "formalities" like registration, notice and renewal from
copyright, and the resulting creation of a large class of "orphan"
works (i.e., works that are not commercially viable, but nonetheless
remain under copyright and are therefore not easily available for
others to archive, preserve, and build on). Take a look at
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/cases/kahle_v_a shcroft.shtml for
a copy of the complaint, press release, and FAQ."
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