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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Unless US copyright gets extended. Again. For the umpteenth time.
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It's possible that at some point, the courts might decide that "limited times" cannot be interpreted to mean anything less than infinity. Perhaps not likely, but possible. The intent of the copyright clause is clear, a limited-time monopoly in exchange for the work entering the public domain. The phrase "limited times" was used rather than a fixed number of years to give Congress some flexibility, but at some point, it doesn't qualify as limited anymore.
Perhaps we should just grant Disney an eternal copyright to Mickey Mouse, that would lower the pressure to keep extending copyright eternally.