Super hero in a black suit
posted by McFrozen on October 18, 2002
This is the man who is trying to save the public domain from corporate greed.
As important as the discussions about the RIAA are, this fight is just as, if not more important. If the fight over music on the Internet is drifting into a fight about personal rights versus corporate rights, but Eldred v. Ashcroft is about cultural and societal rights v. corporate rights.
Here's some background, for those not familiar:
The threat that Eric Eldred saw, and the basis of his suit, is that the never-ending string of copyright extensions is going to effectively kill the growth of the public domain to save corporate profits, profits which could not have been gained without the benefit of a flourishing public domain to begin with.
Eric Eldred rocks.