The New Copyright Law

(all facts personally verified by god)

The congress recently passed legislation to extend by twenty years copyright protection for works that would otherwise have gone into the public domain as per preexisting law. Today the Supreme Court has taken up this issue as certain individuals have challenged the new law. The argument for overturning the law is that these artists are dead and that keeping their work protected will likely offer them no incentive to produce more art. The argument against is essentially the