The United States Supreme Court heard arguments this morning in Eldred v. Ashcroft, in which Creative Commons leader and Standford Law professor Lawrence Lessig is arguing on behalf of Plaintiff Eric Eldred that the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which extended copyright terms for another tenty years, violates the Constitution's provision for copyrights of "limited" time.
Since I am still in New Mexico, I was not able to attend the hearing, and I have been somewhat frustrated by the lack of early news on how the arguments went. I'll update this entry later as I hear more.
Here's a post-argument article that looks like it came from the AP feed. Note how the article quotes AOL Time Warner but not anyone arguing against the extension.
Posted by wasylik at October 9, 2002 01:10 PM