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Eldred v. Ashcroft Update--Opening Brief Filed, Amici Weigh In
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posted by filter_editor
on Tuesday May 21, @08:26AM
from the strange-bedfellows-indeed dept.
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The petitioners have filed their opening briefs in Openlaw case Eldred v. Ashcroft, the challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act [PDF] now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. As Lawmeme reports, numerous amici have filed in support as well. Writes petitioner Jonathan Zittrain, these include multiple Nobel laureate economists, the Free Software Foundation, constitutional and IP law profs, the American Library Association, the Eagle Forum, the American Historical Association, distinguished historians, and Intel Corp. All in all an amazing group of people and institutions spanning the ideological and sectoral spectrums. Most of the briefs are available here, with general information available here and here.
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I can only imagine that the high-priced lawyers representing the entertainment industry will bring an impressive cadre of experts to their side as well. These days, it seems economists are as malleable as cheap for-hire legal experts out of the yellow pages. As for the FSF and Intel, they make strange bedfellows without context, but it's pretty clear that each has a substantial interest in this debate, and that's been clear for some time. The FSF hates copyright. Intel and most every other PC-industry company hatest limitations on copyright as well -- Napster, et. al., make computers far more compelling to buy. Likewise, the availability of more publicly available, formerly copyrighted material will stimulate purchase of computers, networking equipment, broadband access, and the like.
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This is somewhat offtopic, but what's the point of using expert witnesses at all these days, other than to counter the other side's expert witness. To a non-lawyer, it seems that, given enough money, an expert witness can be bought to testify to almost anything. This is an especially important issue in dealing with technology and law issues, since it leaves the court with no way of navigating the difficult technical issues of, say, protecting IP on the Internet. Would some sort of system of neutral experts working for the judiciary rather than for the litigants improve on the current situation ?
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