"A Supreme Court ruling on a 20-year extension of copyright protection could decide much of what Web surfers get to see, hear, and share." By Jane Black. [Business Week]

Article about Eldred v. Reno case to overturn the copyright extension act. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired]

"As an economic matter, the CTEA amounts to a state giveaway of public domain property, pure and simple." By Richard Epstein. [Financial Times]

News and forum discussion of Lawrence Lessig's arguments to the US Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft. [kuro5hin]

Editorial supporting the Eldred case. "Vast quantities of creative material shouldn't be perpetually owned privately, and Congress's repeated extensions of protection to copyright holders have shredded any meaningful limit." [Washington Post]

News of CTEA and other "intellectual property" laws passed by Congress. By David Roy Ellis. [Clearwater Bar Association]

Argues that the Foreign Commerce Clause of the US Constitution supports the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

Article about Eldred v. Reno's challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act. By Thomas Claburn. [Smart Business]

Collection of materials, provided by the primary plaintiff. Includes timeline, text of court briefs, and links to articles, plaintiffs, and lawyers involved in the case.

News of arguments in the case against the retroactive 20-year copyright extension and forum discussion. [Slashdot]

Summary of issue and the arguments, and links to legal documents and other resources about the case over the constitutionality of the Copyright Term Extension Act. [Washington Post]

Text of the decision, with links to other cases cited.

"The Supreme Court has agreed to look into whether Congress had the authority to make this last in a series of 11 extensions of the copyright term." News and discussion forum. [Plastic]

Editorial citing the lawsuit against "The Wind Done Gone" as an example of what's wrong with copyright term extension. By Lawrense Lessig. [New York Times] [Free registration required.]

Discusses shifts in the perceived purposes of copyright law from public benefits to author profits. By Mike Godwin. [The American Lawyer]

How to determine what is in the public domain in the US after the Copyright Term Extension Act. Discusses trademark and right of publicity issues that may burden otherwise "rights-free" materials.

Interview with Eric Eldred about his constitutional challenge to the Sonny Bono Act. By Andrea L. Foster. [Chronicle of Higher Education]

Open law public forum for collaboration and discussion on the case challenging the Bono Act's 20 year extension of the copyright terms.

Open law public forum for collaboration and discussion on the case challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and "restoration" of expired copyrights.

Resources and information about legal and court cases challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Law.

"Maybe we ought to stop coddling the Scrooge McDucks and free Steamboat Willie." By James Surowiecki. [New Yorker]

Editorial by Steve Zeitlin opposing pending copyright extension. Summarizes public interest issues and notes that Disney is leading campaign along with ASCAP and Gershwin Family Trust. [New York Times] [Full text requires payment.]

Official text of the decision upholding the copyright extension act, in PDF format. (801K)

"Antitrust lawyer Chris Sprigman has written a thoughtful column in Findlaw's Writ on the issues behind the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act and the legal challenge (Eldred v. Ashcroft) to that law." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]

"Disney, The Copyright Term Extension Act, and Eldred v. Ashcroft." By Chris Sprigman. [FindLaw's Writ]

"The Stanford University law professor filed a suit ... which alleged that Congress had overstepped its authority in passing the 1998 'Copyright Term Extension Act'." News and discussion forum. [Plastic]

Article presenting both sides of the term extension debate. By Gail Russell Chaddock. [Christian Science Monitor]

Comments prepared for the NINCH Copyright Town Meeting on the Public Domain at the Chicago Historical Society by Diane M. Zorich.

Free encyclopedia entry about the act.