26 Jun 2006
Justices pooh-pooh Winnie the Pooh

Hmmm, the stories are nearly 80 years old, the authors been dead for fifty years and we're still arguing about "control" of an imaginary bear ...maybe Mr. Milne should've killed off Winnie in his final tale to to insure that nobody else could ever bring him back!

If this doesn't illustrate the absurdity of todays copyright in perpetuity I'm not sure anything does.

The Supreme Court refused on Monday to decide whether the granddaughter of A.A. Milne, British creator of Winnie the Pooh, can recapture control of the copyright for stories featuring the children's book character.

(link) [CNN.com]

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