Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbitt at Corporate Report.com.

And I'm James Eppinplato for Mediamonarchy.com. I filled the potholes. Pay me instead of your taxes.

We've got that story., plus making your own clothes.

But first, on this all-good-new-new-new-world next week for Thanksgiving, as threatened and promised

last week, we're giving thanks for solutions-oriented stories and some of the ways that we

are winning.

And we'll begin with, I think, one of my favorites from this past year, and I should tell folks

here from the outset. All these stories are being pulled from previous episodes of good news

next week. That's my spin-off from New World next week that looks at good news story. So all of

these have already been published, and I think they're just some of my favorites of this past year.

And we'll begin with no copyright for Old Works, which was my first

good news next week episode for 2019, which noted that for the first time in 20 years,

January 1st, 2019, published works entered the U.S. public domain. Works from 1923 will be

free for all to use and build upon without permission or fee. They include 10 commandments, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Robert Frost, Aldous Huxley,

Edith Wharton, the Charleston song, all kinds of stuff.

Works from 1923 were set to go into the public domain in 1999 after a 75-year copyright term,

but Congress Critters in 1998 hit a two-decade pause button

and extended their copyright terms for 20 years, giving works published between 1923 and

1977, an expanded term of 95 years.

But now the drought is over.

So again, all kinds of amazing stuff that, again, people are now free to remix and use and cover and chop up and do all those things too.

And I think really, James, this kind of helps shine a light on essentially the destructive nature of copyright laws, which brings us to essentially one of your favorites, James.

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