Tolkien estate apparently did not like the movies. So we must needs wait for the copyright expiration before we can expect the movie of Berenice and Lúthien, the woman who entered Sauron’s tower full of werewolves and vampires. So , what’s that, 1973+70 years? 90 years? More!? Ask yourself: do you want copyright to be extended? Fuck that shit.
@kensanata They'll just extend it again. Copyright in the US is effectively infinite.
@seanl I know and it makes me sad. And somehow the voters are unable to stop them. It’s a disgrace.
@kensanata The voters don't care AFAICT. Certainly not enough to vote out their own representative.
@seanl Same here or we wouldn’t be following the intellectual property pipers in this country. Pharma über alles. So one side fights to extend copyright, the other to strengthen patents, everybody talks about the jobs saved and nobody talks about our culture diminished.
@kensanata Copyright extension is a classic example of focused benefits always winning out over dispersed interests. And worse, Disney *knows* the cost of Mickey entering the public domain. Nobody can know the value to society of all the stuff that would have otherwise entered the public domains. Which makes projects like the one that lists all the stuff that would have entered the public domain every year under different years' copyright laws really important.