[napscoordinator]

Good Lord. Doesn’t everyone have it on DVD by now? My family must have had it for ten years (AT LEAST) and can watch it anytime. It costs like 20 bucks. Why anyone would want to watch it on TV with commercials is beyond me. Talk about complaining for nothing.....obviously a slow news day!!!!!

[Sacajaweau]

I think the librarian told me 78 years.

[Quix]

Hmmmmm Many good points.

Thanks.

Perhaps properties which meet some level of commercial value could be protected automatically for 70 years—the Biblical lifespan.

And, perhaps another extension of 10-20 years or so by a small $1.00 fee as long as the author was alive.

Shoot, I’d even be comfortable granting heirs profits from the top 1% of works (in terms of CURRENT POPULARITY, PROFIT, MERIT) protected by say a $25.00/year fee for another 25 years.

There’s just no sense in losing a lot of works that no one cares about commercially at all.

And, I don’t think there’s much sense in allowing major conglomerate corporations to profit from works endlessly when many authors and creators see such a small fraction of the benefit.

I am a fierce proponent of capitalism. I’m not a supporter of monopoly-ism.

[muawiyah]

Fur Shur all 85,000 posts I've dropped on FR through the years are protected by copyright ~ you hear that Dick, and you, over there, Hillary, and Chris, and ........

Well, it's kind of like calling out the names of the reindeer on my "I ain't protecting it yet" sleigh full of soundbytes that help advance our side in the Culture Wars and destroy the Democrats.

Merry Christmas everybody.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Political correctness killed Song of the South.