RE: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Being Argued Today

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A Rolenz [mailto:Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:36 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Being Argued Today
> 
> 
> Eldred is being argues today (probably as I type). I hope that anyone 
> there can send out their impressions and summary if they can....
> 
> BTW - at http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/10/09/scotus.copyrights.ap/
> 
> "AOL Time Warner said if the extension was struck down, it 
> would threaten 
> copyrights
> for some of its movies, including "Casablanca," "The Wizard 
> of Oz" and 
> "Gone With
> the Wind." 
> 
> Songs that would come into the public domain are "Stardust," 
> "Yes! We Have 
> No
> Bananas," and "Yes Sir! That's My Baby," the Songwriters 
> Guild of America 
> told the
> court. "
> 
> I hope AOL-TW keep that whine going infront of the USSC. 
> Maybe even Scalia 
> will realize that it's not about the tantilizing law of "intellectual 
> property" but it's about profits and control...as for the 
> SGA...this is 
> incredible! How often do these songs get played today? How 
> many people 
> know the tunes? I can say that I do only because the last two 
> are one's 
> that my parents still hum or sing because they learned them in their 
> youth. But what an incredible Whine "OHHHHH alll this stuff 
> will enter the 
> public domain if you don't keep extending copyright and we 
> can't have that 
> even though some of you don't even know the tunes..."
> 

Yes, it will enter the public domain.  That was the deal
you made at the time you got the original protection.


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!