Judge Dismisses Challenge to 4 Laws That Archivists Say Skew Concept of Copyright

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

A federal judge has ruled against legal scholars and archivists who challenged current copyright law in hopes of making it easier to archive old literature and films on the Internet, where they would be available free to the public.

The case, Kahle v. Ashcroft, pitted two archive groups --...

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