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Originally Posted by teh603
Got enough money for a court case on it?
Although I doubt the current supreme court would be likely to agree; this is the court that ruled you can't restrict a corporation's ability to buy politicians.
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The last extension of the copyright law was challenged in court, there is every reason to believe that this one will be as well. The Supreme Court ruled that the extension was not so great as to violate "limited times". They did not rule that it could be extended forever, only that this extension wasn't great enough to violate limited times. There are, or course, people who argue for eternal copyrights, and openly advocate for copyright to be extended over and over again to bypass the Constitution. Infinity-1 isn't a reasonable definition of limited times, but it remains to be seen if the court will be reasonable.
Or maybe we should just give special exemptions to Disney so they don't drag every other work into eternal limbo with them. As it is, nothing will enter the public domain until 2019.