> However, given that the term of copyright keeps expanding as "important"
> (read: money generating) works get closer to expiry, I think it is in
> effect "forever". Frankly, retroactive copyright extension really SHOULD
> violate the "Ex Post Facto laws" clause anyway.
Wait a minute--copyright is more important than Ex Post Facto? Yeah, right.
What SHOULD happen, if the trend you identifed continues, is the court
should strike down the last revision of the copyright law (or all of them),
and declare all such works that would be in the public domain, in the public
domain by order of the court.
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