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> Oh, it probably was, I am talking about the jump past 50, which is why Star Wars won't be public domain in 2027.

Ah, okay, yeah. Was not alive in the 70s, so it's like the perspective of Gen Z on the TSA.

> turned the screws on their wholly owned congressmen to remedy the situation.

Yeah, they don't have the juice to do that any more, though.

> There is no undoing it without a revolution because it would be deemed a taking to render their libraries worthless to them with a retcon.

Everyone except Hollywood hates Hollywood, it's been like that for at least ten years. I think you could pull it off. I think you could do it just by threatening to withdraw from the Berne Convention: "don't interfere with making copyright reasonable or we'll immediately put everything you've ever done into the public domain outside the US".