Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Golan v. Holder, an important case concerning Congress's constitutional power to restore copyright protection for works that have passed into the public domain. The statute in question is a provision of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act of 1994 that granted new copyrights to thousands of old foreign works that had been considered to be in the public domain in the U.S., some for decades. This case will be watched closely, as it has serious ramifications for many people, from librarians and educators to the orchestra conductors who brought the case.
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Commentary:
- Chicago-Kent law professor Eric Lee at Huffington Post
- Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog
- Kevin Smith at Duke University Scholarly Communications Blog
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