Copyright law change and the growing body of intellectual property law have served to greatly circumscribe and diminish the material available to the world as public domain resources. Duke University will be the focus of efforts to modify this trend. Indeed if the current trends were to continue indefintely, it is possible that paintings in caves by prehistoric artists would be placed under copyright protection.
University to challenge copyright laws
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
September 4, 2002, 4:33 PM PT
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Duke University's law school has received an anonymous $1 million gift to fund advocacy and research aimed at curtailing the recent expansion of copyright law.
The school, which plans to announce the gift at a conference in Washington on Thursday, is using the money to fund a center focused on finding "the correct balance" between intellectual property rights and material that should be in the public domain.
James Boyle, a Duke law professor and co-director of the school's Center
for the Study of the Public Domain, says that the center is likely to look
skeptically at recent laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA) and a measure that extended duration of copyrights by 20 years.
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