Then it will be impossible to upload any image to the commons, except by artists & photographers.

I expect USA to expand copyrights to an additional 100 years, in a hundred years, making entrance of Copyrighted works into Public Domain impossible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copyright_term.svg

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Images on Commons must be public domain in both the source country and the US. The images are definitely copyrighted in the US. The question is whether they are copyrighted due to following US formalities or due to the URAA.