Ober|Kaler - Law Gives Copyrights New Life: Scott Johnson

<body bgcolor="FFFFFF" text="000000"> <p>Law Gives Copyrights New Life <p><a href="http://www.ober.com/shared_resources/resume/johnson.html" target="_blank">E. Scott Johnson</a><br>410-347-7388<br>johnson@ober.com <p>Appeared in The National Law Journal <br>February 8, 1999 <p>Each year on Dec. 31, copyright protection expires on many well-known literary, artistic and musical works — but not this year. On Oct. 27, 1998, President Clinton signed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act,(1) which halts for 20 years the flow of U.S. copyrighted works into the public domain. Composers, authors, publishers, entertainment industry companies and trade groups had lobbied hard for this legislation, which was renamed in honor of the late entertainer-turned-representative... <p><a href="_sonnymic.html">Full Text</a> </body>