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Originally Posted by kane
I can.
If you built a huge nice house and passed it down to your kids who passed it down to theirs should their be an expiration date as to when your family no longer owns it and anyone who wants to can move in and live there?
He created it. His estate should be able to hold the copyright on it for as long as they want.
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bad example because the founding fathers never made a law saying you have to give up your house after a certain set of years. They DID in fact make copyright time LIMITED.
US Constitution Article One Section 8 clause 8.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
So we went from
Copyright Act of 1790 - established U.S. copyright with term of 14 years with 14-year renewal
Of course now we have
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 - extended terms to 95/120 years or life plus 70 years
Expect an extension of copyright even more within the next 10 years since Disney's copyright on Steamboat Willie runs out in 2021. Hell they might as well fuck over the American people by declaring "public domain" dead. Since that's where it's obviously headed.