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jacquesm on Nov 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on Janua...

> There is also one movie - whose name escapes me now - which entered the public domain and was then put back under copyright protection subsequently.

It looks like that got fixed:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/04/court-congress-ca...

jellicle on Nov 19, 2012 [–]

Nope. The Supreme Court unfixed it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/supreme-court-gets-it-...

Congress has the authority to take old works out of the public domain, permanently.

pbhjpbhj on Nov 19, 2012 | [–]

Surely not "permanently" as that would violate the "limited time" clause for copyright enshrined in the US constitution ...

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