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...December, the Times of London reported that Popeye would soon fall out of copyright in Europe, where the law allows publishing houses to charge licensing fees for reproduction of original material for 70 years after the death of the creator. (U.S. law protects works for 95 years after the initial copyright.) Popeye first featured in the Thimble Theatre comic strip just as the Great Depression got under way in 1929; his creator, Elzie Segar, died in 1938. (See pictures of the greatest animated movies...
...after stumbling across the radio plays on the Internet one Christmas Eve a couple years ago. "These are shows that haven't been heard in 60 years. You'd think if anything, the traditionalists would be like, 'This is really cool.' Mitch Thrower, son of the Yule Log's creator, isn't sure his father would agree. "If my Dad was around now, I suspect he would have preferred the traditional WPIX Yule Log," he says, "because of the sentimental value for millions of people, and the power of tradition...
...ornate Clementine hall. "The Church speaks of the human being as man and woman, and asks that this order is respected." The Pope again denounced the contemporary idea that gender is a malleable definition. That path, he said, leads to a "self-emancipation of man from creation and the Creator." (See TIME's Top 10 religious stories of the year...
...conventions of modern secularized society. Much has been made of the Pope's recent focus on environmental issues. On Monday he repeated his metaphor that the human body should be protected much as environmentalists want to protect the earth. "The fact that the earth, the cosmos, mirror the creator Spirit, also means that beyond the mathematical order, their rational structures in the experiment become almost palpable, which in itself brings an ethical orientation," he argued Monday, before declaring that one "must defend not only the earth, water and air as gifts of creation belonging to all. One must also protect...
...creator says he hopes people see the website as "just a fun-natured project" through which people are "able to express their outrage over the war and what has transpired in Iraq because of the Bush Administration ... We don't condone addressing your adversaries in any violent means, but in this case, when we feel an unjust war was waged, we certainly are empathetic toward the journalist who expressed his anger and frustration in this way." (A disclaimer on the site says, "We do not condone shoe-throwing, but we prefer...