:innocent: I am glad to hear this!

Heehee there is nothing wrong with letting something you are passionate about getting the better of you.

I do not disagree.

Where it will sadly be abused even more most likely by every crackpot who saw a movie in the 80’s and think they know everything there is to know (btw, the rights to the 80’s movie version of Conan will not become PD :wink:) Or even worse, those who just think they know BETTER than Robert E. Howard did. Hmm… I wonder where we heard that one before cough L. Sprague de Camp cough But at least being in the PD no one will own the rights and be able to have a stranglehold on the material and “claim” that these are actually the original writings / works, and hopefully enough people are educated by this point in time to brush this sort of nonsense off.

As for the topic of the copyright law, if the copyright is in the hands of the person(s) who are directly responsible for creating the work (the author of the book, the writer / performer of the song) then I have no issue with them holding copyright protection to their created property while they are alive. Anyone else though? Nope. You should not be able to “purchase” the rights to something you did not create yourself. But that is just my opinion.