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Golan v. Holder - District Court Order

By Stanford Center for Internet and Society on April 03, 2009

The Court upheld our challenge to the constitutionality of the URAA's restoration of copyrights in public domain works. The Court granted our summary judgment motion, holding the URAA violates the First Amendment insofar as it suppresses parties' rights to keep using works they exploited when those works were in the public domain.

Publication Type:Litigation Brief
Publication Date:04/03/2009

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