One of the more interesting things over the past few months is just how mainstream copyright issues have suddenly become. This point has been driven home with the news that Ruben Bolling’s famous Tom the Dancing Bug comic has taken on the excessiveness of both copyright extension and enforcement with his God-man character doing tremendous damage just to enforce the copyright on a work that should be in the public domain:

You can check out some of the comments that people have left under the comic as well. It’s really a pretty good description of this debate in many ways. The supporters of these bills don’t seem to want to listen. They don’t even acknowledge that there might be collateral damage or that copyright has been expanded and stretched in ways that are absolutely ridiculous. You bring up any of that… and they’re ready to dash off about some other problem.

Either way, very cool to see Bolling take on this issue, and see the issue getting more and more mainstream attention.

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