That would be a pretty radical form of extreme eventualism. Nothing
has fallen into the public domain in the U.S. on account of copyright
expiring for a long, long, long time due to continual copyright
extension acts. And I think there is probably little hope that this
situation will change over time -- there is simply too much money
invested in works created in the late 1920s, too little monetary and
political force to remind Congressmen of the "temporary" in the phrase
"temporary monopoly".
FF
On 11/28/05, Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/28/05, Steve Block
<steve.block(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
Sadly, though, in some instances, i.e. for
illustrating articles
regarding comics, you will never get a free-licensed image.
True. Although a position one could describe as 'extreme eventualism'
would state that the comics will eventually fall into the public
domain and then be usable ...
-Matt
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