I don't think they have to bribe congress for that. The copyright is owned by the corporation, so until the corporation goes under, it is well within its rights to renew the copyright. This is important, because the corporation WOULD go under if it couldn't do this.
It's not a matter of renewing, it's a matter of bribing congress to unilaterally increase the length of copyright. At this point, it's gotten to what? Life of the creator + 90 years? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. That is insane beyond the point of insanity. The idea that copyright should be even life is excessive, and that it extends another fucking lifetime past that is just mindbogglingly absurd. I cannot put to words just how obscene and ridiculous this is.
Surely you're not suggesting some unfair system whereby a poor defenceless coorperation is forced to create new works to stay in buisness instead of just re-releasing it's extremely old back catalogue ad infinitum. That's madness! :O
I just watched the latest two episodes of futurama (7 and
and was honestly uite surprised with how good 7 was. It really had the feel and style of the old episodes, good writing and jokes, consistency and continuity with the rest of the series, etc.
Then I watched the one about the cats. Such a bitter dissapointment after the time travel one... I'd hoped the series had found its legs again. Instead it seems like theres gonna be about 1 in 4 episodes worth watching.
There's definatly something going on with the writers of this show. It's like they all decided to never talk to each other about their episodes. Leela and Fry's relationship, for example, seems to vary wildly from episode to episode.