There's a right way and a wrong way to enact copyright reform. This particular bill is the wrong way. First, the US government signed onto the Berne Convention

There's a right way and a wrong way to enact copyright reform. This particular bill is the wrong way. First, the US government signed onto the Berne Convention in the 1980s, so we'd have to have another bill to leave it. Second, we're also signatories to NAFTA and it's updated treaty which also have similar IP language that conforms to the Berne Convention. Third, the back-dating of the copyright to specific companies that make 150 billion dollars a year is definitely not going to pass muster since the government would have to offer something place of the lost asset meeting the market rate which I'm going to assume the section of the Disney catalog that's affected by this bill would be an astronomical sum of cash. So if this ever got passed by Congress and signed by a President, there would be mayhem over this bill. Like kiss goodbye the US economy considering how many other entertainment companies that aren't Disney would get smacked hard by this. Seriously, Josh Hawley is like that douche from high school that use to bully the nerds for playing D&D but only joined one tabletop session because one cute girl was interested in it so he magically got interested too. It's that kind of thinking that goes through Josh's pinhead.