The U.S. copyright system is a complete disaster. It was originally seven years with a seven year renewal. But it’s been steadily expanded to the current life of the author plus 70 years. There’s no way that life + 70 meets the constitutional definition of “for a limited time”. You can thank the Europeans for the first big expansion in the early 1970s and then Disney for the current version (fuck Disney with a cactus btw).
The U.S. copyright system is a complete disaster. It was originally seven years with a seven year renewal. But it’s been steadily expanded to the current life of the author plus 70 years. There’s no way that life + 70 meets the constitutional definition of “for a limited time”. You can thank the Europeans for the first big expansion in the early 1970s and then Disney for the current version (fuck Disney with a cactus btw).