WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 18 ruled that the Constitution did not bar Congress from extending copyright protection to previously free foreign works, such as Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.
The justices, in a 6-2 decision by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, rejected arguments made by a group of musicians, conductors, publishers and others, who enjoyed free access to certain foreign works before Congress acted in 1994. The group had argued that once those works entered the public domain, they remained there forever.
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