open...: How They Stole the Public Domain

"[C]opyright maximalists and their friends in power have managed to keep jacking up that period, meaning that more and more of our cultural heritage is locked away for decades, released only long after the death of the author. Rufus Pollock has now quantified how much we are losing....Imagine what today's artists could have done with free access to all those works: it's not just the past's creativity that's been stolen, but the present's too...."