The Sonny Bono copyright extention act is keeping 4 million works from the world
in order to protect 50 thousand.



(overview article on eldred:
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_sprigman.html )

What is new on this is a set of berkeley and other talented lawyers have written
a brief for the supreme court.

With a set of us bringing free
Public Access to the Public Domain
via digital archives, this case is especially stinging.

I highly recommend reading this brief for the writing and the statistics:


http://www.archive.org/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=papers&Number=194&\
Search=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&\
Old=1week&Main=194

(this is the attachment to this posting in our bulletin board. this is a way to
also introduce our open bulletin board).

-brewster