[Richard Kimball]

Yeah. This is really sad, too. I read where Eisner pushed a lot of dollars to Congress to get copyright time extended specifically to keep Disney characters developed early on from going public domain.

[Elliott Jackalope]

I got to learn about all of this earlier this year, when I was seriously thinking about getting into the business of converting old movies to DVD and selling them through magazines like "Filmfax". Then I learned about the current state of copyright laws. Good Grief! It's un-freakin' believable! If patent law were like copyright law, the descendants of the Wright brothers would be the only airplane company in existence!

What is really sad is how many movies are going to end up being lost because of the demise of public domain. Seen "Carolina Cannonball" or "Hand of Death" or "Valley of the Eagles" lately? No? Don't worry, you never will. People like me who would be interested in converting those movies to DVD and distributing them have been forced out of the marketplace by these absurd copyright laws.

You'd think that thirty or forty years would be enough time for the original owners to make their money off of their movies, right? No, not enough. Now they have to own them for a friggin' hundred years or more. It just stinks on ice, and it makes me deeply resent the Disney corporation and our so-called "Congress". They should just rename the whole of Congress to "The hall of Boot-licking corporate butt-boys and servicers of corporate lobbyists."