Thoughts? Copyright practices are a bubbling cesspool.

[Nerd] I mean Sir Paul sold the rights to the Beastles song catalogue to Michael Jackson to avoid the hassle and expense of keeping the copyrights in his name in the 80's due to British copyright law. In the US it may be two life-times but in Britain you have to renew the copyright, yourself, every 5-7 years. Or so I was told. Hasbro has lost a bunch of really great Transformer names (due to the use it or loose it 3-5 years trademarking laws in the US), and had to stick faction names in front of a bunch more. Or that Marvel comics has taken the lawsuit to bat to any company that even hints at having the word marvel on where on it's publications for 40 years.[/Nerd]