Comment by nordsieck

> We have to agree to these kinds of terms about something that is more than half a century old and has zero commercial value. Something in the copyright system is deeply broken.

I don't disagree.

The trouble is that, while almost everything 50 years old has almost no commercial value, a few things that old have tremendous commercial value.

My preferred solution is to have a very short automatic copyright period combined with a fee for registered works that increases exponentially based on the date of registration. Not that it really matters - I'm sure such a solution would never be enacted into law.