Comment Re:Mickey Mouse copyirght extenstions... (Score 2) 183
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
The above is otherwise known as the copyright clause of the US Constitution. Copyrights were not intended to be infinite. What you are thinking of are trademarks.
1000 years is still a "limited Time"