[antiRepublicrat]

Once it's in the public domain doesn't necessarily mean it stays there. First Congress does as much as it can at the behest of corporations to make sure nothing ever falls into the public domain, and now they want to be able to re-copyright stuff that's already in the public domain, being used by others in the true spirit of constitutional copyright.

[Red Badger]

Copyright was never meant to last forever..............

[a fool in paradise]

It’s already happened before.

It’s A Wonderful Life was public domain and went back under copyright. And not just the “colorized” version.

And yes, copyright was NEVER supposed to be eternal.

Our nation’s 20th century cultural tradition is pwned by Big Media’s monopoly. They stay in business with contemporary box office product targeted to insult this nation and the pre-1968 Establishment. How many antiwar films did they make while Bush was President? How many weren’t box office flops? Hollywood will tank a film in production out of spite. They will write a protected star/director’s losses against a smaller film’s budget expenses.

If they didn’t have 70+ years of product to market and merchandise, they would be more accountable to their box office receipts of today.

They’ve extended the terms of copyright numerous times over those 70 years too. The public never approved of these “renegotiations”.

Hollywood owns the US legislature.

[Graybeard58]

Well, there goes my free online bible reading every day.

[zeugma]

Copyright law in this country isway beyond insane.

I hearily recommend Project Gutenberg Austrailia for many titles, appropriately enough, George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm among them, that are in the public domain there, but not in this once free land.