Wouldn't it be cool if the author could post scans of the material alongside their analysis so you could follow along? Without 1978's copyright extension, they

Wouldn't it be cool if the author could post scans of the material alongside their analysis so you could follow along? Without 1978's copyright extension, they could have! These documents would have become part of the public domain in 2006 (or 2034 if the authors chose to renew in 2006; seems unlikely). Our current state of copyright-length-insanity is actually very new. It didn't have to be this way. https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2020/shrinking/ https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2020/shrinking...