Copyright Restoration Upheld: Supreme Court Says Foreign Works Can Be Removed from the Public Domain in Golan v. Holder

摘要

Consistent with the purpose of enacting § 514, the Court's ruling affirms Congress' desire to put foreign works on equal footing with US works. For example, "Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf could once be performed free of charge," but now, Justice Ginsburg wrote, "[t]he right to perform it must be obtained in the marketplace. This is the same marketplace, of course, that exists for the music of Prokofiev's U.S.