No surprises here: A U.S. court has found the
Mickey Mouse copyright extension law
perfectly constitutional and otherwise hunky-dory. That's right, we can rest
assured that the progress of art and science is safeguarded by retroactively
extending copyrights on works (such as old Mickey Mouse films) whose creators
have long since passed away, and that the dangerous anarchy of the public domain
will no longer deter gigantic corporations from having purchased works some
seventy years earlier. The notion of copyrights expiring is a myth, one
perpetuated by subversive elements who probably use Napster and modify their
DVD players. And George Washington didn't smoke dope either, for that matter.