[Design-team] CLA

Sun Feb 7 07:27:50 UTC 2010

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 23:20:28 -0800,
  Hristo Petkov <vaeood at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have no legal questions. It was just interesting to me how an act of higher order (the Law) constrains something to 50 years, and an act of lower order (a Contract) repeals the constraint.

Well the cynical answer is that in the US, copyrights may never expire again.
They have alreay been extended retroactively in the past and we can expect
that to happen again in the future.