The most recent US copyright statute (Other than the
2000 DCMA) is the copyright act of 1978. Which totally
displaces the common law of copyright.
In other words what Madison or Jefferson think matters
nil. What does matter is what the congress in 1978
thought. And what they thought was "Lifetime of author
plus X years" which was once 25, then 50 and now a
whopping 75.
To kiss your rights good buy you have to at least know them.
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