Why shouldn't they? What public interest is served by extending copyrights
indefinitely? I know the folks over at Project Gutenberg are going nuts over
an attempt to extend the law from 75 years to 95 (and I don't have any firm
position on this, except that everyone else in the world has settled on 75),
but the only justification I see for extending copyright law to last forever
is one along Ayn Randian lines. I.e. A viewpoint that denies that there exists
a public interest.
---- Michael Levy mlevy1@umbc8.umbc.edu