The cyber-crusaders behind the attempt to roll back the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act are at it again.
This time, Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig and his Cyberlaw Clinic asked the Northern District of California to strike the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, which automatically renewed so-called orphan works, copyrights in works created from 1964-77. Not one to shy away from controversy, the Clinic also asked the district court to reconsider the U.S. Supreme Court’s Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003), in light of the “fundamental” changes Congress made to the U.S. copyright system over the past 30 years.
