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Opening Brief Filed

By Stanford Center for Internet and Society on July 18, 2005 at 6:05 PM

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.

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