Golan v. Holder: The Constitutionality of Restoring Works of Foreign Origin From the Public Domain (2010)

On cross motions for summary judgment, a federal district court in Colorado held, in Golan v. Holder, that Section 104A of the Copyright Act, codifying Section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (“URAA”), which restores copyright protection to works of foreign nationals that had entered the public domain, violates the First Amendment use rights of parties
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Eldred v. Ashcroft: The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Copyright Term Extension (2003)

At the beginning of this year, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (the “CTEA” or “Act”), which extends the existing term of copyright protection for an additional 20-year period. The district court had earlier held that the 20-year extension, though longer than the term in the
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Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition: The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds the Legality of Virtual Child Pornography (2002)

In a significant free speech decision, the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year affirmed the holding of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that two key provisions of The Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 (CPPA) are overbroad and, therefore, violate the First Amendment. The first provision would have criminalized “any visual
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