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Presumably the copyright will expire sometime around 2079.

Under mickey mouse act, there's no reason to believe it will ever expire.

Whole thing is rotten to the core. Megarich proponents arguing that copyright in its current form encourages competition is about as laughable as megarich proponents arguing for trickle down economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

I don't think copyright will be extended again because of successful SOPA protests. Disney knows they cannot really succeed now at extending copyright, so they don't bother to.

Current expectations are that copyright won't be extended again.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-i...

What part of Tetris do you think is copyrightable? The graphics and sounds are. The source code, yes.

The game rules? No.

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