From Amalyah Keshet

There is a White House petition to restore copyright to 28 years -

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/support-restoration-copyrights-their-original-duration-28-years/Z7skGfKk

"Our Founding Fathers established an initial copyright duration of 
28-years, but that has been repeatedly extended to up to 120 years to 
favor corporations like Disney and Sony and authors' descendants at the 
expense of the public. Such durations ignore the Constitution's 
requirement that copyrights be for limited times and promote progress in 
science and the useful arts. They actually inhibit scientific progress 
by restricting the free flow of information, preventing global digital 
libraries, and withholding information that future generations need to 
freely exchange and build upon. The original copyright duration provides 
ample incentive for companies and authors to create, so we ask the 
President to urge Congress to pass a bill restoring copyrights to their 
original duration of 28 years."

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