June 04, 2003
The battle to check unlimited copyright term extension is not over.
Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS) filed this suit seeking to have the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) declared unconstitutional on behalf of a University of Denver, Colorado conductor whose orchestra planned to perform compositions that were removed from the public domain by the CTEA. This case raises similar issues to those in Eldred v. Ashcroft, but also challenges Congress’s ability to reclassify materials as copyrighted once they have passed into the public domain.
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