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The Wayne ([personal profile] thewayne) wrote2012-01-01 02:16 pm
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What is NOT entering the public domain this year due to copyright extensions

A very interesting list, including The Seven Year Itch and The Fellowship of the Rings.

*sigh* Will we ever again have something resembling rational copyright and patent protection rather than the mutated crap that we have now?

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2012/pre-1976
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[personal profile] silveradept 2012-01-01 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, goodness no. There will always be a patsy somewhere and enough people with media cabal favors owed that copyright extensions will always appear when a company wants it.