[Kyuu]

Originally Posted by Triple_R

That's the key term, in my view. "Fair use".

Copyright duration:

http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

There's a general list on lengths of copyright and expiration.

For media items. The time it takes for media items to enter public domain: should be 20 years. Maybe even 30 years tops. Then they get dumped into public domain. The existing lengths do not make sense. Media is replaceable and is constantly replaced year-after-year.

For example:

Under "Sound Recordings Published in the United States":

Spoiler:

• 1978 to 1 March 1989
• Published with notice
• 70 years after death of author, or if work of corporate authorship, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation. 2049 at the earliest

Really? 95 years from publication? By that point, few if any would care if such media work even exists. I'll be damned if anyone remembers who Cyndi Lauper is 70 years from now.