Re: The Eric Eldred Act

Gee, this sounds an awful lot like the basic system in place before the 1976 Act. It is called renewal !

Remember, after 28 years, if one did not file the necessary paperwork, the work fell into the public domain.

Isn't the current decision, and haven't past amendments been an express rejection of a system in which there is some affirmative requirement imposed upon the copyright owner in order to maintain his or her protection?

This sounds like "sour grapes" to me. "We lost our argument before the Supreme Court, so let's do something else that will achieve our result."

Maybe the real benefit of the Eldred case is that it has brought the issue of copyright term into the forefront, and if Congress tries to do it again, sufficient resistance from the public -- the now informed public -- can attempt to counteract the efforts by the content providers.

For now, it's over. Received on Tue Jan 28 2003 - 10:10:52 GMT