Copyright bomb about to explode

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“It’s written into the statute,” says American entertainment lawyer Robert Bernstein. “It’s just a matter of time.” That’s the US Copyright Act of 1976 which could “bring another round of tumult to the business, due to provisions that allow authors or their heirs to terminate copyright grants — or at the very least renegotiate much sweeter deals by threatening to do so,” he says. He’s quoted by Eliot Van Buskirk in Wired under Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries .