Actually copyright laws from bygone eras were downright progressive compared to what Sonny Bono, Disney and other corporate lobbies have forced upon us in the l

Actually copyright laws from bygone eras were downright progressive compared to what Sonny Bono, Disney and other corporate lobbies have forced upon us in the last few decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright#/media/File:Tom_Bell's_graph_showing_extension_of_U.S._copyright_term_over_time.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright#/media/Fi... No one is saying publishers have to offer content which is not commercially interesting. My contention is that if we want to preserve knowledge we need to put it in the public domain after a while, maybe several decades, or at least be very generous with exceptions for archival. This is consistent with copyright law until it was subverted in the modern era. At this point it looks like Disney has successfully lobbied for permanent and perpetual copyright.