Just imagine how much we would have lost if this kind of copyright issues had stifled performers and writers in the past?

For a start, we'd have hardly any of Shakespeare's plays, and no folk music or folk song.

It's a shame for the future, but at least we've still got the stuff in the past that wasn't strangled at birth by the big high wall of "intellectual property rights".

"There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me.
Sign was painted, said private property.
But on the back side it didn't say nothin'.
That side was made for you and me."