Not related to the quite interesting scene, this film, one of the earliest films made, won't enter the public domain until 2047.
I can't begin to express how disgusting that is. Every single person involved with the creation of this movie is certainly dead of old age. Their kids are probably dead of old age. Their grandkids are starting to die of old age. And by the time 2047 rolls around, their great grandkids would be largely dead of old age.
Four generations, each given the full power of the government to protect a work they have increasingly less claim to. How many of us even know what our great grandfather did for a living, let alone think we have a claim to the fruits of that labor?
I modified the legal page of The Graysonian Ethic to release the copyright to the public domain 15 years after first print, as it really ought to be. If I can't make back the money and time I spent on the book by then, it just wasn't meant to be.
I can't begin to express how disgusting that is. Every single person involved with the creation of this movie is certainly dead of old age. Their kids are probably dead of old age. Their grandkids are starting to die of old age. And by the time 2047 rolls around, their great grandkids would be largely dead of old age.
Four generations, each given the full power of the government to protect a work they have increasingly less claim to. How many of us even know what our great grandfather did for a living, let alone think we have a claim to the fruits of that labor?
I modified the legal page of The Graysonian Ethic to release the copyright to the public domain 15 years after first print, as it really ought to be. If I can't make back the money and time I spent on the book by then, it just wasn't meant to be.
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