2 Dec
2011
2 Dec
'11
2:44 p.m.
On 2 Dec 2011 at 14:54, Jim Scheef wrote:
God forbid the copyright on Sonny's songs should
expire while that
tree still stands at Heavenly Valley. ;-^)
A not-well-known tidbit is that Mary Bono thought that copyrights
should be perpetual. Evidently, she'd not read the US Constitution.
Apparently, neither has the Supreme Court. They held that long
extension of copyright was perfectly legal. I believe it was
Lawrence Lessig who asked if perpetual copyright could be achieved by
multiple finite extensions of the copyright term. The Supremes
thought that perfectly reasonable.
I believe that Prof. Lessig has another iron in the fire currently,
namely Golan v. Holder, arguing the unconstitutionality of "restored
copyrights". A decision from the Supremes is due any year now.
As Fred observed, you will be long dead by the time the copyright
expires on OS/2. The only question remaining is will your great-
great-great-grandhildren also be dust before the work enters the
public domain.
--Chuck