Blawgs on US Copyright Extension

Well, Nick vetoed Syndirella so I'm just going to compile a list here, and then carry on linking to useful and/or interesting items in the archive. Starting off with:

Lawrence Lessig, and his piece on losing the Eldred case.

Hundreds of thousands of books, movies and songs were close to being released into the public domain when the US Congress extended the copyright by 20 years in 1998 under pressure from giant corporations. In Eldred v Ashcroft, the plaintiffs, organised by Lessig, sought to challenge the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, on the grounds that it was unconstitutional.

They lost.

Lessig also links to Doc Searle's highly readable analysis of the underlying reasons why Lessig's team lost for the American Open Technology Consortium .

And TechnoLawyer's IP Meme's newsletter led me to COPYFIGHT: the politics of IP.