Z:gnu-www-ja-copyright-versus-community--4ee5f8-The movie companies say they w/en

The movie companies say they want perpetual copyright, but the US Constitution won't let them get that officially. So they came up with a way to get the same result unofficially: &ldquo;perpetual copyright on the installment plan&rdquo;. Every 20 years they extend copyright for 20 more years. So that at any given time, any given work has a date when it will supposedly fall into the public domain. But that date is like tomorrow, it never comes. By the time you get there they will have postponed it, unless we stop them next time.