Reaction Against The 1992 Amendment
In 2007, four plaintiffs, the Internet Archive, its founder, Prelinger Archives, and its founder, filed a suit against the US Government for changing the copyright system in the Ninth Circuit (See Kahle v. Gonzales). The Internet Archive is a partner in the Million Book Project, a venture that aimed to scan over a million books to make it available to the public on the Internet. The plaintiffs argued that there are several cases where it’s impossible to locate the authors. These orphan works could be used to contribute to projects that utilized public domain works. However, the 1992 amendment, by removing the renewal requirement of these works, prevented such works from falling into the public domain.
After hearing the appeals, the Ninth Circuit rejected the plaintiffs’ appeal on January 22, 2007 saying that they essentially made the same arguments made in the Eldred case which was rejected by the Supreme Court.
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