Reply #13: Sad but true...the same reason for the life-plus-70 copyright insanity

[Kievan Rus]

It's simple greed by the already obsenely wealthy. It's the same reason why we have the absurd life-plus-seventy copyright terms...primarily the lobbying brainchild of Di$ney and $cientology.

Thanks to them (and assuming that copyright terms don't get extended yet again), it will not be until the mid-to-late 22nd century that all of the culture of today is public domain. Long after all of my generation (Generation Y) are dead, long after all the children of my generation are dead, when only about 100 of the grandchildren of my generation will still be alive, when the great-grandchildren of my generation will be getting Social Security payments (assuming it still exists), when the great-great grandchildren of my generation will be middle age, and when the great-great-great grandchildren of my generation will be the age that we are today.