OK to re-copyright works from the public domain
Peter Suber · 2005
In Luck's Music Library v. Gonzales, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week (May 24) that it was constitutional to re-copyright works that had fallen into the public domain. Excerpt: 'Plaintiffs challenge the constitutionality of § 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act...which implements Article 18 of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.