url URL date NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERtNUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER eric eldred _himself_ was just on marketplace NUMBER nytimes debate to intensify on copyright extension law NUMBER front page of the business section below the fold it will fall to mr lessig who is a former clerk for supreme court justice antonin scalia and who has become a kind of rock star for the digital liberties set to convince the justices to accept the unconventional analysis if they do the decision could be a turning point in redefining a balance between copyright consumers and producers and the technology companies that are often in the middle newsweek glitterati vs geeks NUMBER larry lessig admits it he s nervous who wouldn t be in its narrowest context eldred v ashcroft deals with the seemingly arcane issue of the length of copyrights for books films and music but it s actually a high noon showdown between two great industries at odds in the age of the internet there s a sense of deja vu to this television was supposed to be the death of movies and in NUMBER the film industry s silver tongued lobbyist jack valenti testified that the vcr is to the american film producer and the american public as the boston strangler is to the woman home alone video sales are now the studios biggest moneymaker naturally hollywood regards the computer internet combo as scarier than nightmare on elm street NUMBER URL NUMBER URL NUMBER URL 