Internet Archive Loses Copyright Fight

Posted by michael on Tuesday November 30, 2004 @08:49AM from the rejected dept.

tiltowait writes "As reported on LISNews.com, the Internet Archive has lost a copyright lawsuit which challenged the Congressional lengthening of copyright terms and conditions. The ruling has implications for abandonware and other copyright-eligible materials that have no active owner. Brewster Kahle plans to appeal the decision." The decision is available. As we noted in an earlier story, the Eldred case challenged the length of copyright expansion, this one challenged the breadth, and so far, this one is going about as well as the Eldred case did. Stanford has an overview of the case.

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Who cares? by mrn121 · 2004-11-30 08:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm not saying that this is not newsworthy, but I submitted an article about the resignation of Sec. of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, and it got declined. How is this more important (in terms of the direct affect on my life) than that?
I would have thought that in the Politics section of Slashdot, the resignation of a cabinet member would be newsworthy.
Oh well, flame on, my friends.