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Copyright Act of 1790
Term of 14 years
Renewal of 14 years

Copyright Act of 1831
Term extended to 28 years
Renewal of 14 years

Copyright Act of 1909
Term of 28 years
Renewal extended to 28 years

Copyright Act of 1976
Life of the author, plus 50 years (generally)
75 years from date of publication or 120 years from date of creation (anonymous works, pseudonymous works, and works made for hire)

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (1998)
Life of the author, plus 70 years (generally)
95 years from date of publication or 120 years from date of creation (anonymous works, pseudonymous works, and works made for hire)

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (1998) is what Disney was able to lobby for to extend the life of Mickey for another 20 years. It expires in 2024. But trademark will still be valid.

Each country has it’s own copyright office. So you would need to pay in each of them where your work is distributed. They are just enforced almost globaly as majority of countries signed an agrement to recognize them.

While true, I don’t have a problem with entertainment being copyrighted for longer, it’s impact on quality of life and health is non existent in comparison to patents.

The issue with patents being 20 years that it completly stops innovation because even if it’s reproduced and improved patent stops it from coming to the market and the patent holder has no incentive to improve anything since it can just rake in the money.

Trademarks purpose is to make brand recognizible and it should exist as long as the company pruduces anything under that brand. Caping it’s existance serves no purpose aparting from letting cheap copies to be sold which doesn’t benefit anyone.

I’m fine with copyright, but it should end when the author dies instead of extending x years after the death. But patents should be limited to a few years after product release and the loopholes closed. Right now some patents can be extened infinitely.