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| | Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act |
 | | Unlike European Union/ copyright extension legislation, the Sonny Bono Act was not retroactive. | | | Copyright owners successfully lobbylobbied the Congress of the United StatesU.S. Congress for an extension of copyright, to provide for the same term of protection as exists in Europe/. | | | In the United States, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 extended the duration of United States copyright lawU.S. copyrights by 20 years. |
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http://www.infothis.com/find/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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| | Society Issues Intellectual Property Copyrights Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act |
| | Reno case to overturn the copyright extension act. | | | Opposing Copyright Extension - Resources and information about legal and court cases challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Law. | | | Copyright Term Extension: Congress Enacts a Mickey Mouse Law and Legislation for the New Millennium - News of CTEA and other "intellectual property" laws passed by Congress. |
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http://www.iper1.com/iper1-odp/scat/id/Society/Issues/Intellectual_Property/Copyrights/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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| | Copyright Term Extension Final Summary |
| | In general, the bill extends the term of copyright protection in the United States by 20 years for all works still in their term of protection. | | | for works in their renewal term on the effective date of the new law, protection will endure for a term of 95 years from the date copyright was originally secured (for example, a work first published in 1955 would be protected through the year 2050). | | | The bill also includes certain limited amendments to the termination rights provisions of the Copyright Act of which publishers should be aware. |
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http://www.nmpa.org/nmpa/termfinal.html
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| | Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) Upheld by Supreme Court |
| | Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) Upheld by Supreme Court | | | The Court held in a 7-2 opinion issued on January 15, 2003, that the decision to increase the term of existing copyrights to seventy years was within Congress' discretion and was consistent with the Constitution's Copyright Clause and the First Amendment. | | | Turning to the First Amendment issue, the Court dismissed Petitioner's arguments that longer copyright terms encroached on free speech, citing copyright law's long-time express and implied accommodation of the First Amendment, by, for example, in permitting certain types of fair use for critique of copyrighted works and deeming ideas uncopyrightable. |
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http://www.oblon.com/Ip/CTEAsonnybono0103.html
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| | NINCH: Copyright Town Meeting 2000 |
| | In the first Copyright Act of 1790, copyright term was set at 14 years with a possibility of extension for another 14 years. | | | First, we have the various revisions to Copyright law which have extended the duration of copyright. | | | Under earlier versions of copyright law, copyright owners had to renew their works if they wished to enjoy additional years of protection offered under the statute. |
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http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2000/chicagozorich.html
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| | Sonny Bono Term Extension Act Extends Copyright Terms |
| | The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, signed into law on October 27, 1998, amends the copyright laws by extending the duration of copyright protection. | | | For pre-1978 works still in their original or renewal term of copyright, the total term is extended to 95 years from the date that copyright was originally secured. | | | The Act does not restore copyright protection to any works that are in the public domain. |
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http://www.keytlaw.com/Copyrights/sonybono.htm
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| | CTEA Civil Disobedience |
| | The Court stated that though the Bono Act is "debatable and unwise", the Congress is the final judge of what "promote[s] the Progress of Science" and implied that Eldred, Lessig, and other proponents of short copyright terms should take their fight to Capitol Hill instead. | | | The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 added twenty years to the terms of all subsisting copyrights in the United States of America without the public getting anything in return. | | | These works have fallen out of copyright in Australia but remain under copyright in the United States. |
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http://www.pineight.com/bono
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| | Openlaw: Eldred v. Ashcroft |
| | The Bono Act was the 11th extension of copyright terms in the last 40 years. | | | The founders did not envision copyright being put to this use, and the Supreme Court should not allow it. | | | Copyright law requires a balancing of the interest of copyright holders against the rights of everyone else. |
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http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvreno
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| | Sonny Bono Is Dead |
| | This project is a protest against the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which passed through Congress in 1998 and was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year. | | | This act diminished the public's ability to access older works while granting more control to corporations anxious to preserve a few copyrights from the 1920's. | | | Artists are also encouraged to create new works by sampling Sonny Bono's output (or other artists who embraced the notion of copyright lasting forever). |
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http://detritus.net/illegalart/sonnybono
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| | New Rules for Using Public Domain Materials (What's in the Public Domain: PD and Copyright-Free, Expired ... |
| | However, the copyright owner was given the option to renew the copyright for an additional period of 28-years during the last year of the initial term. | | | Once the work was published with a valid copyright notice, the copyright lasted for an initial term of 28- years. | | | Under the old Copyright Act, before 1978, we had a sensible system in which you were required to both register and renew your copyright in order to enjoy copyright protection. |
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http://copylaw.com/new_articles/PublicDomain.html
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| | Copyright Term Extension Act |
| | On January 15, 2003, the Court upheld the Copyright Term Extension Act by a 7-2 majority. | | | A federal judge ruled that Congress has the authority to extend copyright protections without interferrence from the courts... | | | This permission is in addition to rights of reproduction granted under Sections 107, 108, and other provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act. |
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http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/extension.html
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| | TechNews.com |
| | The law adds 20 years to the term of all copyrights -- authors of copyrighted works (and their estates) now hold a copyright up to 70 years after the author's death, while owners of so-called work-for-hire copyrights (typically corporations) now hold copyrights for 95 years. | | | Copyright laws are not restrictions on freedom of speech because they protect the form of expression and not the ideas expressed. | | | On Congress' passage of the Copyright Term Extension Act: |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technology/articles/eldredprimer_100902.htm
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| | The US Supreme Court has upheld the copyright extension act in a vote of 7-2. | | | The act established a 20-year extension on copyrighted works dating back to 1920, but it was challenged in the courts on the basis of being anti-free speech and quintessentially something that Congress should not be able to determine on its own merits. | | | Be that as it may, the ruling now puts US copyright terms on the same page as those in the EU, which have the same duration. |
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20030115-723.html
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| | PRIMER ON THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM |
| | Since the 1976 Act took effect, the general term for copyright was changed from two terms of twenty-eight (28) years (an original and a renewal term) to life of the author plus 50 years or 75 years, in the case of works made for hire. | | | The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is the most comprehensive reform of copyright law in a generation. | | | Passage of copyright term extension, which was a popular bill, should have occurred several years ago; however, passage was held up by disputes involving music licensing in connection with religious broadcasts and public performances in restaurants and bars. |
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http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/primer.html
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| | Reason magazine -- March 2000, Copy Catfight by Jesse Walker |
| | Some have copyrights that have expired; others were never copyrighted; with others, no one's sure who owns the rights at all, and someone decided to release the films anyway. | | | Corporate-owned copyrights were also extended by two decades, to 95 years, as were all copyrights for works produced before 1978. | | | Before the Bono Act, new or recent works copyrighted by individuals were protected for life plus 50 years. |
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http://www.reason.com/0003/fe.jw.copy.html
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| | The Chronicle: Daily news: 02/20/2002 -- 02 |
| | But he said that, with the Copyright Term Extension Act, Congress is aiming for unlimited protection by retroactively extending copyright for materials already published. | | | Ashcroft, concerns the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, which protects the copyright of material for 70 years after its author's death. | | | Published materials used in the classroom are often exempt from copyright laws, because of the fair-use doctrine. |
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http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022002t.htm
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| | FindLaw's Writ - Sprigman: The Mouse That Ate The Public Domain |
| | John Deere Co., where it held that the "qualified authority" that the Copyright Clause grants "is limited to the promotion of advances in [science and] the 'useful arts'." In contrast, the copyright grant is not itself the enumerated power; it is merely the instrument through which progress may be realized. | | | The argument is that Congress's repeated extensions (the CTEA is but the latest of 11 acts that have stretched the copyright term from 14 years to beyond 100 years) have rendered meaningless the stricture that exclusive rights may be granted only for "limited times." | | | Correspondence between Jefferson and Madison regarding the drafting of the Copyright Clause evidences the same concern: both men classify copyrights and patents as "monopolies" sufferable only for limited periods, and only for the purpose of incenting invention. |
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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_sprigman.html
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| | BW Online September 27, 2002 A Case to Define the Digital Age |
| | The case is a crucible, not only for the CTEA, but for all future copyright laws. | | | According to the government's brief, the Constitution confers the right to make copyright law on Congress, not the courts. | | | That issue is whether Congress has the right to extend copyright law if the change does not promote the "progress of science and useful arts" as stated in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2002/tc20020927_7367.htm
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| | MPAA Copyright Term Extension Act |
| | Ashcroft supporting the U.S. government’s defense of copyright term extension legislation in a case that will be argued before the Supreme Court on October 9. | | | In uniformly extending the copyright term, the CTEA follows a long and consistent practice, running back to the first federal copyright statute of 1790. | | | The copyright community of the United States is an awesome engine of economic growth in this country. |
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http://www.mpaa.org/jack/2002/2002_08_05.htm
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| | Wired 10.10: Lawrence Lessig's Supreme Showdown |
| | The Bono Act was a prime example of how the law could starve that commons. | | | A retroactive extension of copyright clearly violates the Constitution. | | | But the main thrust of Lessig's argument rests on the fact that, as with previous extensions, the Copyright Term Extension Act not only grants new copyright holders a longer term of exclusivity, it grandfathers in previous works. |
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/lessig.html?pg=5
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| | Opposing Copyright Extension, Protecting The Public Domain |
| | Section 514 of the URAA created section 104A of the Copyright Act, which allows the revival of copyrights relating to foreign works where those copyrights had expired due to failure to follow formalities previously required by U.S. law (such as publication with a copyright notice or filing a renewal registration). | | | On October 7, 1998, both the House and the Senate passed S. 505, the "Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act" (CTEA), extending the already-too-long term of copyright protection by another 20 years. | | | Representative Zoe Lofgren has again introduced the Public Domain Enhancement Act, H.R. requiring the payment of $1 fifty years after publication and every ten years thereafter to maintain the copyright until the end of the current (overly long) term. |
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http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension
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| | S505-As Adopted |
| | Royalties payable to copyright owners for any public performance or display of their works other than such performances or displays as are exempted under paragraph (5) shall not be diminished in any respect as a result of such exemption.'. | | | This title may be referred to as the `Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act'. | | | `(9) For purposes of this section, the term `industry rate' means the license fee a performing rights society has agreed to with, or which has been determined by the court for, a significant segment of the music user industry to which the individual proprietor belongs.'. |
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http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/legmats/S505-final.html
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| | Eldred v. Ashcroft |
| | Eric Eldred is the lead plaintiff on the case (for other plaintiffs, click here), and on May 20, 2002, opening briefs were filed in the Supreme Court. | | | December 20, 2002 - More support for the public domain: Check out Jason Schultz's final report about the effect of invalidating the 1976 Copyright Act's extension of copyrights. | | | December 18, 2002 - Top question we get: "When will the court decide the case?" It is impossible to know. |
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http://eldred.cc/eldredvashcroft.html
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| | Save Orphan Works |
| | They are all still under copyright for a long time, but there is no one to authorize their use. | | | These are unpublished letters with the copyright term of life of the author + 70 years. | | | The Copyright Office seeks to examine the issues raised by "orphan works," that is, copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to locate. |
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http://www.eldred.cc
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| | Patry on Termination in Copyright. The Importance of...: |
| | For those unfamiliar with this aspect of copyright law, termination means that if you licensed your copyright to some person or entity, you (or your heirs) can get the copyright back to take advantage of the new, extended term, if you comply with some complex formalities. | | | Subsisting copyright term extension is simply windfall rent seeking. | | | But that plan worked only if the author was not permitted, during the original term, to also convey the renewal term. |
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http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/06/09/patry_on_termination_in_copyright.php
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| | Business 2.0 - Web Guide - Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act -e1 |
| | Signed into law by President Clinton in 1998, this controversial amendment to copyright law essentially extends the terms of copyright another 20 years. | | | The case challenges the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act...." News, discussion, legal documents. | | | "While copyright may not seem inherently compelling to non-specialists, the issues at stake in Eldred are vitally important to anyone who watches movies, listens to music, or reads books. |
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http://www.business2.com/b2/webguide/0,17811,71163,00.html
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| | pirate's little helper: sonny bono copyright act |
| | The net result of this leglislation is that existing copyrights have been extended by 20 years. | | | I invite all of you to work with me to strengthen our copyright laws in all of the ways available to us. | | | "Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever. |
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http://www.swcp.com/rtoads/toad5/pirate/bono.html
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| | CopyrightMyStuff.com |
| | Your copyright must be registered in order to take legal action against an act of infringement. | | | Copyright registration establishes a public record of your copyright. | | | If registered within five years of publication, your registration certificate is prima facie evidence of the validity of your copyright. |
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http://www.CopyRightMyStuff.com
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| | President Bush signs Family Entertainment and Copyright Act |
| | It additionally corrects a drafting error in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act that will allow libraries to create copies of "orphan works," copyrighted materials that are in the last 20 years of their copyright term and are no longer commercially exploitable. | | | WASHINGTON -- After President Bush affixed his signature to the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act in an Oval Office ceremony this week, it became a federal crime to camcord a movie. | | | Bush's signature Tuesday marked the last act in a legislative drama that spanned two Congresses and saw Hollywood's pet bill married to one that gives protection from lawsuits to companies who make video players that edit out purportedly offensive content in motion pictures. |
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000900812
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| | Salon.com Technology Embrace file-sharing, or die |
| | The Supreme Court recently upheld the "Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA)" that extended the life of existing copyrights an additional 20 years. | | | This, in the face of Justice Steven G. Breyer's estimation that only 2 percent of works copyrighted between 1923 and 1942 are available to the general public. | | | The Supreme Court case pitted the public against Disney, whose early Mickey Mouse cartoons were to enter into the public domain in 2003, and for whom Congress drafted the legislation in the first place. |
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http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/01/file_trading_manifesto
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| | The Public Domain Report |
| | A competent attorney of your choice should be consulted when investigating copyrights, a business endeavor or if you need legal advice. | | | But first, if you're not familiar with the term "public domain" allow me to help give you at least a general idea of the legal and business power contained in these two words. | | | The reason is fairly simple: If you find, re-package and sell information that has fallen into the public domain you do not have to pay royalties or copyright fees on that work. |
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http://www.publicdomainsecretsexposed.com/a/copyright/act-bono-copyright-ext...
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| | Eldritch Press |
| | News 2003-01-15: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against our appeal to overturn the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. | | | Everything at this site has now been placed in the public domain with a Creative Commons deed (except two or three pieces copyrighted by others and used by permission). | | | Discuss at Openlaw and see the main information site at http://eldred.cc. |
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http://www.eldritchpress.org
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