The government has filed its response brief [PDF] in Eldred v. Ashcroft, a suit challenging the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA [PDF]), which will be heard by the US Supreme Court in its October 2002 term.
In related news, the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review has posted Eldred v. Ashcroft: Intellectual Property, Congressional Power, and the Constitution, a collection of draft papers from a symposium on Eldred, to be published in the upcoming Fall issue (volume 36).
The papers represent a wide range of opinion; we've got both Richard Epstein on the "dubious constitutionality" of the CTEA and Paramount Pictures Senior Vice-President for IP Scott Martin on the "mythology" of the public domain and the "myths" behind the attacks on the duration of copyright extensions.
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