[tut-urut-utut]

> you should be upset with your government to change your government's copyright laws to match whatever the US does.

Why should every government copy what US does?

[Mindwipe]

At least in this case the US copied Europe with it's term extensions (Disney certainly weren't unhappy about it but the notion that Disney drove this is a bit of a myth). And Europe set that term length when the EU unified terms because it set it at the longest length from the member nations at the time, which was Germany's life+70 years.

It's pretty interesting but the current global norm for copyright duration is, due to circumstance, almost entirely based on German norms.

[denton-scratch]

> the notion that Disney drove this is a bit of a myth

I thought it was Elvis Presley.

[mantas]

Looks like OP wants German laws to match US laws in this department. So he should be angry at lawmakers, not at lawyers.