FCC Commissioners Call For National Broadband Strategy

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Public Knowledge - By Mehan Jayasuriya - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - While there's little doubt about the benefits that such fast, cheap and widely available Internet would have--for education, employment and the economy--the million-dollar question is how to achieve such a feat in just four short years.

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9th Circuit rejects constitutional challenge to copyright laws in Kahle v. Gonzales

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:31 -0800

Public Knowledge - By Christopher Sprigman - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - Some sad news to report: the 9th Circuit has rejected constitutional challenges to the copyright laws in Kahle v. Gonzales. The opinion is here. Sad, yes, but also positively maddening, for reasons I will explain shortly. First, a bit of background: Plaintiffs in this case -- the Internet Archive and its Chairman, Brewster Kahle, and the Prelinger Film Archive and its President, Richard Prelinger -- filed suit seeking a declaratory judgment that Congress violated the Constitution when it removed our traditional system of formalities from the copyright law. Formalities? Let me explain ... From the first U.S. copyright statute in 1790 until the Copyright Act of 1976, the U.S. had an "opt-in" copyright system that limited copyright protection to those who took affirmative steps to claim it -- by, for example, registering their copyright, marking copies of their work with copyright notice, and renewing their copyright after a relatively short initial period of protection.

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