Word: ctea
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...case—Eldred v. Ashcroft—will determine the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), which prevents the free dissemination of copyrighted material for 20 more years than past legislation had. Under the act, new copyright terms will last the life of a work’s author plus 70 years; renewed copyrights will last 95 years...
Along with co-counsel Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford professor who used to teach at Harvard Law School, they told the court that CTEA violates the Constitution’s Copyright Clause, which states that the work of authors and inventors may be protected by government copyrights only for “limited terms...
They contend that CTEA does not make copyright terms “unlimited,” only extended...
...current case came about when CTEA prevented New Hampshire computer administrator Eric Eldred from publishing copyrighted literary works on his website for an additional 20 years, prompting him to challenge...
However, Zittrain argued that the CTEA is excessive since it extends copyrights on numerous works whose authors are dead, and therefore no longer receiving royalties. He said the CTEA has removed “very old” and valuable work—like some of Robert Frost’s poetry—from the public domain...