Copyright Laws

One interesting fact that I learned the other day about copyright laws is that a copyright law stays in effect for the creator's entire lifetime and seventy years after they are deceased. The law was only fifty years after the creator was deceased until the Sunny Bono law was passed that added twenty extra years. The law was passed because Walt Disney had died and all of his creations would no longer be under copyright. I never knew this fact and that after the seventy years are up that all the creator's thoughts, ideas and products are no longer under copyright and may be used by anyone. I don't beleive in this, I think copyright of the all creations by one person should be under copyright forever. It was their creation in the first place and should not be used by anyone else even if they have been dead for seventy years. Anyone can also argue that if the author has been dead for over seventy years that all of their creations should no longer be under copyright because they no longer exist and cannot control what was once theirs, therefore all of their creations may pass into the public domain.