[SauronOfMordor]

The copyright expiration would also apply to movies. I would bet that there are lots of movie reels (including American-made) from the 50's and earlier in Europe, just ripe for being put on DVD (or onto a server for Internet download in these days of high-speed Internet links)

[zeugma]

Indeed. There are a lot of movies from before the 50s that are disintegrating as we speak because the 'entertainment' industry wants to hold onto things forever. They'd rather have a box of dust than allow anyone with an interest do something with this stuff. Copyright should be less than 25 years. This life+70 thing is outrageous and I pray that the supreme court finds the sanity to say so in a clear and distinct manner.