---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 11:42:17 -0400 From: J Flenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Book People Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OpenLaw site/Eldred v. Reno/publ. domain case in progress http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/ Welcome to the Berkman Center's Openlaw site. Openlaw is an experiment in crafting legal argument in an open forum. With your assistance, we will develop arguments, draft pleadings, and edit briefs in public, online. Non-lawyers and lawyers alike are invited to join the process by adding thoughts to the "brainstorm" outlines, drafting and commenting on drafts in progress, and suggesting reference sources. Building on the model of open source software, we are working from the hypothesis that an open development process best harnesses the distributed resources of the Internet community. By using the Internet, we hope to enable the public interest to speak as loudly as the interests of corporations. Openlaw is therefore a large project built through the coordinated effort of many small (and not so small) contributions. [ Cases: Eldred v. Reno | DVD/DeCSS | Open Access | Microsoft | Archive ] Our first Openlaw case, Eldred v. Reno, challenges the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act -- Congress's recent 20 year extension of the term of copyright protection -- on behalf of publishers and users of public domain works. The district court ruled against us, granting the government's motion for summary judgment, and plaintiffs are currently preparing an appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Support our fight for the public domain by joining Copyright's Commons, a coalition against the copyright extension, and by marking your works with a counter-copyright, [cc]. <snip> . . . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent via the Book People mailing list. Posting address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin. & unsubscribe address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charter: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/bplist/ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html <A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
