Re: Lawsuit filed against the copyright term extension act

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> wrote:
>
> I was browsing misc.int-property recently and Jon Noring
> <noring[_at_]netcom.com> informed the newsgroup and several other
> newsgroups that an individual (Eric Eldred) and his association
> (Eldritch Press) filed a lawsuit against the copyright term
> extension act. The lawsuit is described at:
>
> http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/complaint.html
>
> This is going to be an interesting case.
>
> I learned from the lawsuit that there are nine public laws
> that extended the copyright term nine times between 1962 and
> 1974! What has happened to the justice?

A copy of the Eldred v. Reno complaint is at

    http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/eldredvreno/complaint.html

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