University to challenge copyright laws (News.com)

News.com reports that the law school at Duke University has received a $1 Million grant, to be used for challenging recent expansions of the U.S. copyright laws. "The school, which plans to announce the gift at a conference in Washington on Thursday, is using the money to fund a center focused on finding "the correct balance" between intellectual property rights and material that should be in the public domain. James Boyle, a Duke law professor and co-director of the school's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, says that the center is likely to look skeptically at recent laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and a measure that extended duration of copyrights by 20 years."

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