US COPYRIGHT CASE
February 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLA CHALLENGE to the extension of copyright protection after an author's death in the United States, from 50 to 70 years, is to be heard by the US Supreme Court this year, with a decision being issued from October onwards.The court has confirmed that it will consider whether the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act broke First Amendment constitutional law guarantees on free speech; the law covers works created in 1978 or later and was passed to bring US legislation in line with that operating in the European Union.Supporters of the case (Eldred et al v ...
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