[nicoburns]

> so that Disney can have their infinite copyright on Snow White

If copyright was inifinite, then Disney would never have been able to make Snow White in the first place. They didn't invent the story!

Even if they did, it seems like a huge negative to society for copywright not to expire.

[dhosek]

The thing here is the exponentially increasing cost of renewing the copyright, with the inflation-adjustment I proposed and the 10-year term for a corporate or posthumous copyright, in 90 years, that $1000 renewal fee goes to $256000 in inflation-adjusted dollars. 110 years it’s a million dollars, 210 years it’s a billion dollars. If a work is worth spending that kind of money on renewing the copyright, why not let them keep it?