Golan v. Holder

Golan v. Holder (2012) was a Supreme Court case about whether the government can restore copyright protections to works that had previously entered the public domain through international agreements. The Court ruled that Congress's decision to reinstate copyright for these works did not violate the First Amendment or other laws. Essentially, the Court upheld the idea that Congress has broad authority to decide how intellectual property laws are applied, even if it means bringing works back under copyright protections that had previously lapsed and been freely used.