Attribution is not required in public domain materials

(Sending to two different forums - forgive me for the duplicate.)

It is good to see that the Supreme Court is right on the money regarding the public domain. Today, it ruled that the trademark law cannot be used to create "a species of perpetual patent and copyright" by requiring attribution in the public domain materials.

The opinion can be found at:

     http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/02pdf/02-428.pdf

This is about the case _Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. et. al._.

An interesting note is that the opinion mentioned _Eldred v. Ashcroft_ on page 14.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
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http://www.boycottcopyright.com

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Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Mon Jun 02 2003 - 23:10:56 GMT