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Originally Posted by Alphapheemail
So Kansonians(?) can file share a public domain book internally but cannot email it to someone in California??
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Well, ultimately it will depend on whether the purported copyright holders of the works in question try to enforce their copyright in the other districts. If they decide that the other courts are likely to agree with the one circuit that has already ruled, then de facto they might enter the public domain. Alternately, they might decide to take a middle course... Issuing cease and desist orders to people using the works but not enforcing them (for fear of loosing a legal judgement).
Don't you just love the way the law works
Frankly, as bad as it was to allow a retroactive extension to copyright, its hard to see a constitutional justification for copyrights reactivated after they have ended.
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Bill