"should the Nike logo become public domain just because it has been around for 50 years?"
Trademarks can be renewed so they don't expire. Copyright was only granted for a limited amount of time and are supposed to expire. That was the agreement between the artist and the public to create the work. Now they want to retroactively change the agreement.
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Trademark vs Copyright
"should the Nike logo become public domain just because it has been around for 50 years?"
Trademarks can be renewed so they don't expire. Copyright was only granted for a limited amount of time and are supposed to expire. That was the agreement between the artist and the public to create the work. Now they want to retroactively change the agreement.