Eric Eldred
The proprietor of the unincorporated Eldritch Press, a website which republishes the works of others which are not protected by copyright. He was the lead plaintiff in Eldred v. Ashcroft, which challenged the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Eric Eldred has been described as a former computer programmer, a Boston writer, and a Massachusetts-based technical analyst. He is a founder of Creative Commons [1]. He is an independent scholar and avid reader of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works. He is now on disability and lives in an Internet Bookmobile traveling the U.S. visiting schools and libraries and special events to show readers how to print their own free books. Invite the Bookmobile at [2].
In 2004 Mr. Eldred was denied a permit at Walden Pond State Reservation to print and give away free copies of "Walden" on its 150th anniversary.
External links
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/
- http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/07/19/fighting_to_be_free/
- http://www.mass.gov/dem/parks/wldn.htm