It's very likely that everyone on the Court and everyone in the Senate who voted for this thing will not survive until 2020. It's called "passing the buck to the next generation". It seems to be done a lot -- e.g., the Social Security problem. At 09:44 AM 1/16/03 -0500, Michael Kleber wrote:
But let's be mathematicians for a moment. Eventually something must deal with the fact that the constitutionsays copyright terms cannot be infinite but can, de facto, be unbounded. So while each extension of the copyright term is itself constitutional, congress could hypothetically extend it for 20 years every 20 years, and that has the same effect as a single clearly unconstitutional action.
How can this get resolved? Surely it is the domain of the supreme court -- or maybe of the direct limit of all supreme courts :-)...