U.S. Supreme Court
Oct. 7, 2011
Court weighs copyrights of foreign works
The U.S. Supreme Court considered Wednesday whether to allow the government to remove millions of creative works by foreign authors from the public domain to persuade other countries to respect U.S. copyrights.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - A divided U.S. Supreme Court considered Wednesday whether to allow the government to remove millions of creative works by foreign authors from the public domain in an effort to persuade other countries to respect copyrights on American products.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor emerged as vociferous, and at times unyielding, defenders of a federal law giving foreign work...
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