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A 5 page paper discussing copyright law’s implications for business and innovation. Copyright law dates from the earliest days of the United States. It is the right of the creator of a work to benefit and profit from that work for a specific length of time, after which it reverts to the public domain where individuals can use the information contained in at will. The concept of entering the public domain is as important as the concept of protection. Eldred v. Ashcroft holds promise of redirecting the path that copyright protection now travels, and the Supreme Court decision due July 2003 will carry immense implication for business. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Copyright law dates from the earliest days of the United States as a separate country. It is the right of the creator of a work to benefit and profit
from that work for a specific length of time, after which it reverts to the public domain where individuals can use the information contained in at will. The concept
of entering the public domain is as important as the concept of protection. It has direct application to business today, and likely will
have even greater influence after the Supreme Court delivers a decision in the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft, "a challenge to the controversial 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
(CTEA), which lengthened copyright terms by 20 years, stretching them to 70 years after an artists death" (Black, 2002). The Supreme Court heard arguments October 9, 2002; it will
deliver a decision in July 2003 (Bloom, 2002). Advantages and Disadvantages The nations Founding Fathers designed the original length of term of copyright
protection to be 14 years, with another 14 years available at the end of that first term if the author was still alive. That length of time enabled the
creator to profit from his creation for 28 years, but after that become the property of the public. "That way we would never end up with a system of
hereditary privilege, similar to the printers guilds of Renaissance England, who tied up rights to dead authors and tightly controlled what could or could not be printed and who could
or could not use literary material" (Bloom, 2002). In America, the land of free people, free ideas and the right to express them, the purpose of the Founding Fathers
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