According to the book “The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century”, “The first copyright law, passed in 1790, imposed a term of fourteen years plus another fourteen-year renewal. Terms increased slowly over the next hundred and fifty years, but in the past forty years, copyright terms have been extended eleven times. The two most recent term extensions were imposed by Congress in 1976 and then again in 1998.” (245)
In 1976, Copyright Terms were extended to fifty years beyond the life of the author. In 1998, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act “extended terms to seventy years beyond the life of the author for individual copyright holders, and ninety-five years for corporate copyright holders.” (245) This is where the copyright terms currently stand.
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