Eldred v. Ashcroft Oral Arguments

PMuse and others wrote in about the oral arguments held today in the Eldred v. Ashcroft case challenging the most recent 20-year retroactive extension of copyright terms. Google News will cover the mainstream news stories about it; transcripts of the arguments will eventually be posted; but as I write this the only first-hand reports appear to be LawMeme and the Associated Press. Reader McSpew adds a link to a piece by Steven Levy explaining the importance of Eldred v. Ashcroft and what's really at stake. Update: 10/09 19:12 GMT by T : khkramer links to his own summary of the arguments, writing "I have press credentials at the court, so I was able to take notes during the argument, and in the summary I tried to cover all of the major issues that the Justices asked about."

Comments

Re:So where are the raw materials?

[Dannon]

Interesting. And that limit doesn't seem to inhibit rap 'song' writers.

Of course, it is only with extreme revulsion that I can use the word 'song' to refer to products such as that bastardization of what was originally a very good tune from the musical Annie, namely, It's A Hard-Knocked Life. Especially since I had a college dorm neighbor who delighted in playing it at all hours of night at a volume that did a good job of penetrating the walls....

This leads me to conclude that, one day, when we have reached that theoretical limit, all 'music' produced will be rap. A very frightening concept, indeed. Isn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse?