No copyright extensions are retroactive as long as the works are still under copyright. Why would the companies seek to extend copyright terms? Disney lobbied for the latest extension to keep Steamboat Willy out of the hands of the public.

No now it’s 90 years after the death.

People photocopy in museums?!

whatever happened to academic use?

something interesting — the museums here charge a fee for the training courses they conduct for museum guides. it’s a reasonable amount, but apparently some of that money goes to arranging rights of use with publishers for photocopies. aren’t our museums here covered by academic use clauses or something?!?

nope. if that were true, Beethoven and Mozart would be under copyright too, wouldn’t they?

exactly. That guard doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Fortunately for the kid, the museum curator later explained that the guard was mistaken. My rant was about how the media blitz against ‘piracy’ has created this permissions-based culture where everything must be approved before copying, EVEN though copyright doesn’t subsist.

Out of curiousity, given that the painting is by Matisse, and at the time of creation copyright should’ve been life+14, wouldn’t that painting have been in the public domain by now?

But its true that copyright subsists in almost every product of mankind.