-- Obviously, the end of copyright may well mean a substantial reduction in the proceeds from big movies, but it will hardly mean a total end to those proceeds (the powerpuff girl movie is one big toy advertisment) How big an effect will a reduction in money mean? If you go back thirty years, you will notice that lots of movies were produced on a budget vastly smaller than todays movies. For example I noticed a Hitchcock movie where a car and a car wreck was central to the plot, and most of the story line took place inside a wrecked car.. However, Hitchcock by use of cheesy camera angles, avoided any need for the car to suffer any actual damage, or even the need to go out and buy a wreck. Go back even further, and people do not bother with production values at all. Thus Macbeth says "why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting?", presumably because Shakespeare was too cheap to have a backdrop painted depicting a blasted heath. So the end of copyright will not mean the end of movies, but merely cheaper effects, and since computers are making effects cheaper daily, with imaginary landscapes made inside a computer, and real landscapes massively altered, we probably will not notice any effect at all. The landscapes of Lord of the Rings, though based on real landscapes, were modified beyond recognition in the computer. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 6hvbNtYka8u1qIMniMnCaWBDwMDIldO12gOEblNx 2Olw67ehBaVGbRFS34c7PmLktRCUKrLNbZub4oTFg