From rssfeeds@jmason.org Tue Oct 8 10:55:38 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.spamassassin.taint.org Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837A716F03 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:55:34 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 08 Oct 2002 10:55:34 +0100 (IST) Received: from dogma.slashnull.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g98809K06025 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:00:09 +0100 Message-Id: <200210080800.g98809K06025@dogma.slashnull.org> To: yyyy@spamassassin.taint.org From: aaronsw Subject: Eldred Press Watch Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 08:00:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; encoding=utf-8 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