You make it sound like these absurdly long copyright terms are some relic of the past and it's only a matter of time before they're shortened. In reality they h

You make it sound like these absurdly long copyright terms are some relic of the past and it's only a matter of time before they're shortened. In reality they have been repeatedly extended over the last century (as recently as 1998) and there's no indication that this trend has turned.