Changes

Based on the original design of a When copyright, was originally implemented in law in the time that a creative work stays protected should be finite; that iscommonwealth, it should expire. Say the protection of was only supposed to protect a copyright originally lasted given work for fourteen years from the date it was originally conceived in the commonwealth. After those fourteen yearsthat term, when the copyright "expires", would expire and the work becomes would enter the '''public domain''' (this is done to incentivize further creation of works). Long-running companies want In the United States however, the copyright term has been extended numerous times to continue profiting off keep works under the control of old workthe rights holders, which are usually not the original creators since the term is now so they often set precedents in modern law that extend this time to as long as ''one hundred (95 years'' for example) they would have died. In many western countries, Entertainment companies have a love-hate relationship with the public domain, willfully using works that are under it while preventing their own creative works from being "misused".