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Entertainment
by justed
Sorry, that’s classified.
Imagine: You’re 18 years old. Your country has just been sneak-attacked. Thousands have died. And you feel your duty is to fight for the freedom that you've only known for those few short years of your so short life. No way are you going to allow your nation to be put in jeopardy by the threat of monsters bent on the destruction of all you hold dear.
The struggle is long and hard. The enemy is cunning and vicious. You see many of your comrades fall, dead before your eyes.
But at last the war is over. The horror of the unspeakable acts, the awesome terror that has been unleashed upon the world, is over. You can go home ...
... home to pretend it never happened, though you know it did. Home to pick up the reigns of a normal life – that had an abnormal interruption. Home to live all the dreams that sustained you in the midst of the fighting, the terror, the horror, that is war.
At first for the longest time you can’t talk about it. You don’t want to talk about it. You want to live that life you dreamed about during those dark days when all you had to cling to was the hope of the life you now live.
But eventually time passes, and you seek to discover the past that so wretchedly interrupted the you - that should have been untainted by the experience of war. You start to try to see the larger picture. What happened? How did things come to pass that we found ourselves in the mess that dragged me into a war that taught me how to kill other human beings?
And then you find out that all the records of what was actually going on, what was actually happening, are sealed and won’t be released to the public until long after you are dead.
Governments have long been notorious for protecting themselves (in the collective). Actions taken by one administration have frequently been kept under wraps because it would reflect badly on all administration of government.
Yet now finally, the secret documents of WWII (when most of the worlds’ current population was not even alive) are finally being released to public scrutiny. Forty plus years after the fact, large portions of classified documents are finally seeing the light of day. Too late for many troubled war veterans - who have long since passed away. Certainly all the Generals are gone.
But, even so, approximately thirty plus years before the
oh so precious copyright material of the MPAA / RIAA ever sees the light of public domain.
1998; the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA): copyright protection lasting for the life of the author plus 70 years; for works made for hire, the term of protection was extended from 75 to 95 years.
Curly:
How we gonna get in Pictures? We know nothing about movies.
Moe:
There’s a couple of thousand people now know nothing about it. Three more won’t make any difference.
From:
Movie Maniacs (the Three Stooges), 1935, Columbia Pictures Corporation. Due to enter public domain (baring any further copyright law extensions) in
2030AD.
Thank you Hollywood (MPAA). Thank you, Big Five record corporations (RIAA).
Jon Newton
DeltaF86
