Supreme court decision

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

NY Times
High Court Upholds Law Extending Copyrights by 20 Years
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/15/business/15CND-COPY.html

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 - The Supreme Court today upheld the 20-year extension
that Congress granted to all existing copyrights, declaring that while the
extension might have been bad policy, the 1998 law fell clearly within
Congress's constitutional authority.

The 7-to-2 decision came in the court's most closely watched intellectual
property case in years, one with financial implications in the billions of
dollars. A major victory for the Hollywood studios and other big corporate
copyright holders that had lobbied strenuously for the extension, the
ruling had the effect of keeping the original Mickey Mouse as well as
other icons of midcentury American culture from slipping into the public
domain.

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