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Golan goes forward -- with your help

May 21, 2004 7:36 AM - comments (1)

As reported, we survived the government's motion to dismiss in Golan v. Ashcroft. Thanks to the excellent work of lawyers at Wheeler, Trigg & Kennedy, we've now convinced the court of the importance of discovery to demonstrate the actual harms caused by "restored" copyrights.

Aaron has built a site to help us collect stories, some of which may become part of the suit. Please help spread the link: the beginning of an archive to the public domain.

Posted on May 21, 2004 7:36 AM | | technorati

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April 16, 2008 10:45 AM wow power leveling:

I headed over to Amazon to check out Prof. Patterson's book. Notably missing were any reader reviews of the book that I frequently rely on, especially when the work is outside my field of expertise. Perhaps Prof. Lessig or someone else well informed on copyright law might add one for the benefit of us tyros.

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