[pp.int.general] US Supreme court: Is granting retroactive copying monopoly legal or not?

[Ryan Moffitt]

We're watching this closely over here in the states. Hopefully we get a
favorable ruling.

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 07:51, Pat Maechler aka Valio <pirate at valio.ch>wrote:

> There is an upcoming court case in the US supreme court concerning
> copying monopoly that will be one of the most important ones:
> Can works that were already public domain be retroactively
> "re-protected" by a legislative decision or not?
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-copyright-case-will-decide-fate-of-millions-of-once-public-works/2011/10/03/gIQAfX6LLL_story.html
> http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/golan-v-holder/
>
> -pat
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