Today we filed the opening brief in our appeal to the Tenth Circuit. We argue that the URAA – by restoring copyright to materials that are in the public domain – departs dramatically from the “traditional contours of copyright protection” by violating a fundamental design of the Constitution’s Progress Clause (Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 8): that works passing into the public domain stay there. Download the brief here.
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.
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