> > Reasonable? Consider that the term on copyrights was extended to 75Clearly you don't understand the extension.
> > years for the sole purpose of granting Disney more income from them.But EVERYONE benefits--not just Disney. You might as well say that the
Civil Rights laws were passed just for the sole purpose of granting rights
to the blacks who crusaded for them.> 90, actually. :)
>
> Amd I concur -- that aspect of copyright IS unreasonable. Apparently,
> Congress interprets the 'limited time' clause of the constitution to be
> 'anything less than infinite'.Oh, come off it.
People can live for 90 years... and no one should live to see something they
created be "public domain" by statue. When the buisness-term becomes
hundreds of years, then it gets rediculous.
The term was extended to 90 years after the death of the author. Copyright never lapses while you are still alive
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