Monday at 11:27 am
- drezner.foreignpolicy.com
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thanks to Dan Harris of China Law Blog for sharing this via Twitter. (follow @danharris) -- regarding Charter 08, Beijing doesn't historically respond well to having a mirror held up to its face that closely. it'll be interesting to learn more about the implications of this. - Didier Lahely
Sunday at 6:22 pm
- entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
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“I yam what I yam,” declared Popeye. And just what that is is likely to become less clear as the copyright expires on the character who generates about £1.5 billion in annual sales.
From January 1, the iconic sailor falls into the public domain in Britain under an EU law that restricts the rights of authors to 70 years after their death. Elzie Segar, the Illinois artist who created Popeye, his love interest Olive Oyl and nemesis Bluto, died in 1938. - Didier Lahely
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