U.S. SUpreme court extends copyright by another 20 years.....

..... This means Disney keeps the oldest incarnations of Mickey Mouse, and AOL gets to keep owning The Wizard of Oz, among others. Let's not forget, Disney made a fortune of Snow White And Alice in Wonderland, both of which were public domain by the time they got ahold of them. Here's a link. This is horrible. And being a supreme court decision, theres not much else that can be done short of a constitional amendment. If I was an American I would contact the powers that be and demand a time limit for copyright, be specified in the constitution. The copyright protection has been increased 11 times in this century due to corperate bribes (Donations....)

Hey we are on a new century now. But yes you are right. No good will come of it.

I'm sure the proceeds of these extended copyrights are encouraging Mr. Disney to create more works of art, from beyond the grave. (?) This decision is frankly absurd. If congress has the power to retrospectively lengthen copyright protections, there can be no "limited" term of protection, as it can legally be extended again and again ad nauseum (as has happened throughout the 20th century). I grow more and more disenfranchised about the USA. Thomas Paine is my personal hero, but I shudder at what he would feel could he see the political climate of his country today. -h

I'm disappointed by the ruling. But I think it is good that a number of things have happened recently that have brought the state of our copyright system into public discussion. A lot of these laws have been fine print discussed in smoke filled rooms and never really debated on the floor. Since they mostly affected industry insiders they were mostly drafted by them. But once they start trying to enforce this fine print on the public at large they may find enough folks are annoyed that the laws get changed. - Tom