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Eldred Act Reasoning

17th June 2003

Lawrence Lessig explains why the proposed Eldred Act does not go further in its aims to reclaim the public domain.

Posted 17th June 2003 at 8:04 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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