Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

I haven't read this book though I applaud the premise which is to use the original text of Pride and Prejudice and adding zombies. Did you know you can't do this kind of thing with Gone With the Wind? The author is long dead but somehow Gone With the Wind is still under full copyright protection.

Copyright law is a farce and must be corrected. Copyright was originally created to protect an author's product for 25 years, a more than reasonable amount of time for the author to produce something else to pay the bills. The very idea that a few distant relatives and a publishing company are still collecting money from the sale of Gone With the Wind is complete and utter lunacy. That book should have gone out of copyright in 1961 but you can still get the living shit sued out of you if you use the print from it in another way.

I've wanted to use Disney songs from the 40's and 50's in my music but this would be a way to insure involuntary payments to Disney Corp. for the rests of my life. Why can't I sample the sounds of my early childhood for music? There is no way I would be hurting any of the musicians or writers that created the soundtrack to Cinderella or Jungle Book but Disney Corp. will hunt you down and murder you (not really, but metaphorically) for even showing an old cartoon as an interlude between acts. If you even suggest the image of Mickey Mouse in a painting they will sue you. They'll probably lose but in the process this corporation can destroy the life of an artist that attempts to stand against them.

It is time to fundamentally change the way we treat corporations in this country. There is no justice or equal treatment under the law if an individual is pitted against a corporation. A corporation, for instance, can afford to string a lawsuit along for decades, just waiting for the litigant to die. And they own our Congress so we're not going to get any help from them. I'm not sure how to fix this other than full on revolution. Which means it's hopeless because Americans don't have the balls to stand up to the status quo.