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URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000641
Date: 2002-10-07T15:55:20-06:00

Eric Eldred _himself_ was just on Marketplace[1]. 

NYTimes: Debate to Intensify on Copyright Extension Law[2] (front page of the 
business section, below the fold). " It will fall to Mr. Lessig, who is a 
former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and who has become a kind 
of rock star for the digital liberties set, to convince the justices to accept 
the unconventional analysis. If they do, the decision could be a turning point 
in redefining a balance between copyright consumers and producers � and the 
technology companies that are often in the middle." 

Newsweek: Glitterati vs. Geeks[3]. "Larry Lessig admits it: he�s nervous. Who 
wouldn�t be? [...] In its narrowest context, Eldred v. Ashcroft deals with the 
seemingly arcane issue of the length of copyrights for books, films and music. 
But it�s actually a high-noon showdown between two great industries at odds in 
the age of the Internet." 'There�s a sense of deja vu to this. Television was 
supposed to be the death of movies. And in 1982, the film industry�s 
silver-tongued lobbyist Jack Valenti testified that �the VCR is to the American 
film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman 
home alone.� (Video sales are now the studios� biggest moneymaker.) Naturally, 
Hollywood regards the computer/Internet combo as scarier than �Nightmare on Elm 
Street.�'



[1] http://www.marketplace.org/
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/business/media/07ARGU.html
[3] http://www.msnbc.com/news/817175.asp


