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Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, The Kama Sutra, Dracula, Pride and Prejudice, The Prince … and thousands more.

Sites like Project Gutenberg may not exist in the future because of the ongoing battle by corporations to extend copyright forever and ever. Instead of creative works becoming the common property of all humanity, they will remain the intellectual property of for-profit corporations.

I’m a big supporter of short copyright terms — something like 50 years after the death of the author/creator or even less would be good.

I read some early review which did not say nice things and so I stopped reading reviews about it. Holding up at 71% right now on Rotten Tomatoes though, so I’m hoping I perhaps read a bad review … rather than an accurate review of a bad movie. I’ve been waiting so long to see this that if it is terrible it just might kill me.

Adapted from the best-selling Where the Wild Things Are book, it has a lot to live up to (and it’s been a long time coming – the book was published in 1963).