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Re:Writers who will be entering the public domain in 2015 in... by MaysonL on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @09:14PM (#8791243)
Where is the copyright Uber who will republish some of these works, and take the arguably unconstitutional copyright extensions to court?
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Re:Writers who will be entering the public domain in 2015 in... by twoodfin on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @09:31PM (#8791288)
It's been to the Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft[1] and found constitutional, 7-2.

They're right, IMHO. Congress gets to set the terms of copyright, and it's "limited" so long as any particular Congress can allow it to expire at their pleasure. Don't like it? Elect a different Congress.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft

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