wow. depressing and stomach-churning.
it's things like this that make me really start to wonder whether we shouldn't start thinking about reforming copyright to the point of actually getting rid of it completely. in theory, i support a shorter copyright term, closer to the original one. but maybe copyright is one of those "give them an inch and they take a mile" cases and there's no way around it getting extended and perverted beyond all reason. history so far certainly seems to support that theory...