Friday, October 18, 2002

Transcript of the Eldred hearing online. Aaron Swartz has posted a transcript of the Eldred oral arguments that Larry Lessig and Theodore Olsen presented to the Supreme Court on October 9th. Only 50 members of the public got into the hearing, but now we can all read it. Well, Mr. Chief Justice, it's absolutely true that this case is here because of a fundamentally important changed circumstance that makes the Framers' limitations on the Copyright Clause much more significant. This is the first time I can remember where this Court has been pointed to changed circumstances as a reason to reaffirm the Framers' values, because for most of this period, Mr. Chief Justice, the only people who were regulated by copyright law under the Copyright Act would have been [*4] commercial publishers, primarily, and now for the first time the scope of this exclusive right has expanded because of the changed technology of the Internet to reach an extraordinarily broad range of creativity that never would have been imagined before. Link [Boing Boing Blog] 7:29:32 PM

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