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Disney Wins, Eldred (and everyone else) Loses

Posted by michael on Wednesday January 15, 2003 @03:30AM from the copyright-is-permanent dept.

hondo77 writes "In a 7-2 decision, The Supreme Court gave Disney what they wanted. Story just broke, no details yet." They're talking about the Eldred case, recently argued before the Supreme Court and mentioned on Slashdot many times. The upshot is that no works produced in the United States after the 1920's will ever go out of copyright. Opinions: Majority opinion, Stevens' dissent, Breyer's dissent.

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Re:The first thing this makes me think is... by Dun+Malg · 2003-01-15 04:03 · Score: 2, Offtopic

I don't think so, I think the editor simply has no idea what 'upshot' means. He probably meant to use a fancy word for 'summary'.
No, he used "upshot" correctly. The word either means 1) The final result; the outcome. or 2) The central idea or point; gist.
What do you think the word means?

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