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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1013753" data-attributes="member: 2013">Funny thought...In 1,000 years, I'm going to be famous!  I'll be quoted in all the history books!Why?In the year 3,000 historians are going to want to write about the last turn of the millenium... and because copyright laws have been extended so many times, Steamboat Willie will STILL be under copyright.  In fact, everything ever written by anyone anytime anywhere since about 1923 will still be in copyright.  And of course, the original copyright holders will be long dead, and tracing the rightful copyright holder (the "heir") will be literally impossible.And of course, these historians will find my writings and pictures... all of which were placed into the public domain - and these will be the only things they can quote without paying several million times the annual GNP to AOLTimeWarnerCNNTurnerDisneyClearChannel.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Thus, every child will read my words and look at my pictures in their history books... because everyone else (read: corporations) was too busy worrying that,"Somewhere, someone, somehow might manage to make a buck off of this... and I won't get a cut." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />--The Sigil</blockquote>

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