If I raise this topic on the LUG, I get nothing but noise and heat. That is one reason I am currently not on the LUG.
What do you folks believe to be the current state of the law on copyright in the US? I specifically ask for your views in light of the limited ruling in ELDRED v ASHCROFT, a 2003 opinion of the US Supreme Court.
My question deals with the extensions of the copyright period which began in 1978 -- is this retroactive? ELDRED seems to state that it is for works published from 1 JAN 1978. (And I am not certain that the current Court would support this if the case were presented on a matter of the Constitutional ban on ex post facto law.)
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