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High court challenge to law that puts public-domain works back under copyright

Today the Supreme Court agreed to hear an important case about whether Congress has the power to "restore" copyright protection to works that already exist in the public domain. To be clear, for more than 200 years the law has been settled – once a work was in the public domain, there it remained,...
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Mar 8, 2011High court challenge to law that puts public-domain works back under copyright by grellas16629

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