| On Friday, October 27, 2006, Columbia Law School will host a day-long symposium on Constitutional Challenges to Copyright. The past several years have seen an increasing number of challenges to copyright and related laws on constitutional grounds. The 1976 Copyright Act, the Copyright Term Extension Act, the Berne Convention Implementation Act, the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, the Copyright Restoration Provisions of the URAA, the federal anti-bootlegging statutes, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have all been subject to challenge, and one federal district court has held the federal anti-bootlegging statute unconstitutional, while another has reached the opposite conclusion. |
