copyright related news & info links

Hi, These are some of the more interesting & distressing things I've come across over the past couple of days. - Joel

Now that the Supreme Court Has Declined to Limit Copyright Duration, Those Who Want to Shorten the Term Need to Look At Other Options, Including Constitutional Amendment
By MARCI HAMILTON
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/hamilton/20030213.
html

The Chronicle: 8/2/2002: Copyright as Cudgel
By SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i47/47b00701.htm

Guardian Unlimited Observer | Business | Intellectual property is theft. Ideas are for sharing
John Naughton, Sunday February 9, 2003
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,891687,00.html

What a great idea. I think I'll steal it :
Culture has always drawn on what has gone before, but some artistic borrowings can seem little more than daylight robbery. JAMES ADAMS explores age-old traditions of authorship and some very modern problems
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPPrint/LAC/20030219/RVGLOB/
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PRIMER ON THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM
WHAT THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT AND THE COPYRIGHT TERM EXTENSION ACT MEAN FOR THE LIBRARY COMMUNITY
BY ARNOLD P. LUTZKER
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/primer.html

Institute of Science in Society : Copyright on Information
by Prof. Peter Saunders
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/copyright.php

Tutorial: How to Find a Winning Prior Art Document
http://www.bountyquest.com/arttutorial/arttutorial.htm

Salon.com Technology | Losing the war on patents
by Damien Cave
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/15/bountyquest/print.html

The Making of a Policy Gadfly :
Seeing crucial computer-science work threatened, a Princeton professor takes on Congress
By ANDREA L. FOSTER
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i14/14a02701.htm