I will be very glad to see this bit of our cultural inheritance allowed to pass to its inheritors, in at least some parts of the Anglosphere. I don't mind some

I will be very glad to see this bit of our cultural inheritance allowed to pass to its inheritors, in at least some parts of the Anglosphere. I don't mind some reasonable copyright to help authors be compensated for adding to our culture, but the perpetual exploitation of a franchise for a century or more by corporations without input from people doing their own remixes seems to have seriously harmed our ability to even have shared mythic stores like the Lord of the Rings.