A Case to Define the Digital Age
Jane Black,
Business Week,
Sept 30, 2002
Survey of the legal issues around the current challenge to the copyright term extension act in the United States. The case, led by copyright activist Lawrence Lessig, alleges that the extension will not foster the creation of new work (since the creators being protected are long dead). But the case may founder on the following truism: "When has it ever been illegal for Congress to pass bad laws?" That's the weakness of legalistic approaches to the copyright debate: the law is the law, even if the law is unreasonable.
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