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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you have a reference to support your assertion that US copyright term will be extended in two years?
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To be fair, one can see how an American might think this is obvious. Compare the UK and the US over the 20th Century.
UK
1900: 42 years or life+7, whichever is longer
1911: life+50
1996 (retroactive): life+70
US:
1900: 28 + 14 on renewal
1909: 28 + 28 on renewal
1976: life+50 or 75 years for corporate works
1998: life+70 or 95 years for corporate works
These changes have ensured that nothing published from 1923 onwards (and had its copyright renewed) has come into the US public domain.
Personally, I don't think that any such extension will happen. But I don't think it's unreasonable to think it might.