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Copyright is constitutional. The constitution says congress has the right to specify a copyright for a limited time. But I have to ask you with respect to the lifetime of a person, what is limited about life plus 70 years? Will this encourage an author who is dead to right new works when he has been in the ground for 20 years?
What if Jane Austen had been dead for only 20 years and whoever inherited the copyright didn't like the idea of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?" No one could publish it for another 50 years. How many other great stories don't see the light of day for the same reason. What great movies haven't been filmed because someone could not determine the copyright holder or the copyright holder just didn't like the idea?
Etienne66
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