We seldom legislate new technologies into being. They emerge, and we plunge with them into whatever vortices of change they generate. We legislate after the fact, in a perpetual game of catch-up, as best we can, while our new technologies redefine us - as surely and perhaps as terribly as we've been redefined by broadcast television.
This is neat. Sonny Bono is Dead is a running list of notable works that would be in the public domain if not for the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act (AKA the "Mickey Mouse Law").
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