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Re:Why does Amazon have more books from the 1880s than the 1... by warfangle on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:50PM (#6135088)
Unfortunately, the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 has already been upheld as constitutional by the SCOTUS. Lawrence Lessig writes about this battle (and reasons he thinks he lost) in Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. ( http://www.amazon.com/Free-Culture-Nature-Creativity-ebook/d... - non-affiliate link)
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