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Via Creative Commons (creativecommons): A list of 2002's best-selling classics (how did The Red Tent get on this list?), and when they'll enter the public domain. It almost makes me cry that The Great Gatsby won't be available for translation, adaptation, and reinterpretation for another 17 years.

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Classic seems to be being applied to newer and newer things. I've seen some Disney movies referred to as classics before they are released, which really makes me scratch my head. On the other hand, I suppose some of the definitions just hinge on excellence rather than "has withstood the test of time" (which is what I tend to think of "classic" as meaning in this context).

Copyright extension makes me very sad. Dover has just about hit the wall of stuff they can reprint in music scores. Sigh.