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Intellectual Property

Mar. 25, 2004

Suit Seeks Public Access For 'Orphan Works' of Art

SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig is taking another stab at overturning a federal law that extended copyright protections for as long as 70 years. And his weapon is a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the extensions in a case Lessig argued and lost more than a year ago.

By Xenia P. Kobylarz
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig is taking another stab at overturning a federal law that extended copyright protections for as long as 70 years. And his weapon is a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the extensions in a case Lessig argued and lost more than a year ago.
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