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While he stressed that Congress has passed retroactive copyright extensions before, Lessig said CTEA is the first to be contested...
This week, a team of Harvard legal experts filed a court challenge to a law that postpones the expiration of copyrights on intellectual property. The challenge was filed by Berkman Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig; Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60; Jonathan L. Zittrain, executive director of the Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society; and Geoffrey S. Stewart of the Boston law firm Hale and Dorr...
Nesson characterized the case as a clash of "logic and power," and his colleague Lessig noted that it is the first legal challenge of its kind...
...professors are joined by Stewart, whom Lessig called a "litigation specialist...
...familiar trope in computerland. The Internet is filled with discussion groups debating whether Gates is the devil and Microsoft the Evil Empire. Search the Web for sites that pair the words Gates and Satan, and you'll turn up tens of thousands of hits. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig was a court-appointed monitor in an earlier Justice Department suit against Microsoft before Gates' lawyers uncovered an old e-mail in which Lessig joked that when he installed Microsoft's browser on his computer he "sold his soul...