Editors --- "Banco Court Keynote" [2007] SydUPLawBk 30; in Fitzgerald, Brian; Coates, Jessica and Lewis, Suzanne (eds), "Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons" (Sydney University Press, 2007) 7

Banco Court Keynote

Does Copyright Have Limits? Eldred v Ashcroft and its Aftermath

THE HON JUSTICE JAMES DOUGLAS AND PROFESSOR LAWRENCE LESSIG

Introduction The Hon Justice James Douglas introduces Professor Lawrence Lessig, and provides background on the Creative Commons movement and the Eldred v Ashcroft case. Does Copyright Have Limits? Eldred v Ashcroft and its Aftermath Professor Lawrence Lessig discusses the 2003 US case of Eldred v Ashcroft, which challenged the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and its extension of US copyright terms by 20 years. Professor Brian Fitzgerald (Head, QUT Law School)