Re: What's your take on the Supreme Court Ruling

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Richard Seltzer <seltzer-LVbi7B8qMF5Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]>wrote:

>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/business/public-domain-works-can-be-copyri
> ghted-anew-justices-rule.html
>
> Does this mean that Congress now has the Court's permission to take foreign
> works that are now in the public-domain and put them back under copyright?
>
> Or does it mean that immediately/now those works are under copyright?
>

Given that this is a challenge to a law that went into effect in 2001, I
expect that those works have already been removed from Gutenberg and other
such sites quite some time since.

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