URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000641
Date: 2002-10-07T15:55:20-06:00Eric 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 ï¿½ and the 
technology companies that are often in the middle." Newsweek: Glitterati vs. Geeks[3]. "Larry Lessig admits it: heï¿½s nervous. Who 
wouldnï¿½t 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 itï¿½s actually a high-noon showdown between two great industries at odds in 
the age of the Internet." 'Thereï¿½s a sense of deja vu to this. Television was 
supposed to be the death of movies. And in 1982, the film industryï¿½s 
silver-tongued lobbyist Jack Valenti testified that ï¿½the VCR is to the American 
film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman 
home alone.ï¿½ (Video sales are now the studiosï¿½ biggest moneymaker.) Naturally, 
Hollywood regards the computer/Internet combo as scarier than ï¿½Nightmare on Elm 
Street.ï¿½'[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
