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Intellectual Property

Mar. 9, 2011

Court Considers Copyright Protections

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a decade-long challenge to a law that removed books, movies and other media out of the public domain and restored their copyright protections.


By Robert Iafolla


Daily Journal Staff Writer


WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a decade-old challenge to a law that moved books, movies and other media out of the public domain and restored their copyright protections.


A coalition of orchestra conductors, performers, film archivists and movie distributors are fighting amendments to the Copyright Act protecting works by foreign authors. They said it was unclear how ...

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