<div dir="ltr">We're watching this closely over here in the states. Hopefully we get a favorable ruling.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 07:51, Pat Maechler aka Valio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pirate@valio.ch">pirate@valio.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">There is an upcoming court case in the US supreme court concerning<br>
copying monopoly that will be one of the most important ones:<br>
Can works that were already public domain be retroactively<br>
"re-protected" by a legislative decision or not?<br>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-copyright-case-will-decide-fate-of-millions-of-once-public-works/2011/10/03/gIQAfX6LLL_story.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-copyright-case-will-decide-fate-of-millions-of-once-public-works/2011/10/03/gIQAfX6LLL_story.html</a><br>


<a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/golan-v-holder/" target="_blank">http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/golan-v-holder/</a><br>
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-pat<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ryan Moffitt<br><a href="mailto:ryan.m.moffitt@gmail.com">ryan.m.moffitt@gmail.com</a><br>
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