Are there any great writers anymore? There’s good ones to be sure, but great ones? Any Tolstoys today? Not going to be many more at this rate.
I’m not an attorney, but it is my understanding that the US signed onto an international copyright convention in the mid-80s. If that’s correct, how can the USSC modify a treaty?
If this stands, then ‘transformative’ can be incrementally redefined to mean almost anything - reprint a book on pastel paper and it’s OK.