in the united states, we had system where you had saying anagal 28 year term of copyright. if you wanted a longer term of copyright, you had to file the renewal with the u.s. copyright office. if you did that, you get another 28 years. if you ask people now, well, you know, you got 28 years for $3 filling out a simple government form you're going get another 28 years. most people would say yeah, i'll take the another 28 years. it won't hurt me. it won't take a lot of time but the actually for almost 100 years the data was uniform the renewal rate was 15%. this is a much smaller subset of copyright works because most works were registered in the first place. if you break it down by type of work, motion pictures have the largest renewal rate 74% rate. books have 7 percent. was quite enough. it wasn't book publishers were lazy. they made a rational economic decision that the economic value of their work was over after 28 years. so in the rational system you take the market signals, you won't one one size fits all. it doesn't make sense anyway. the market shows you there's 7% f

that's anage of better than -- that's an average of better than one confirmation for every two and a half days that the senate has been in session. with the confirmations today, the senate have confirmed nearly 75% of president obama's article 3 judicial nominations. despite this progress, we still hear complaints about the judicial vacancy rate. we're filling those vacancies but, again be, i want to remind my colleagues, that of the 82 current vacancies, 50 have no nomination. that is over 60% of the vacancies with no nominee, and quite frankly, everybody understands it. we can't fill vacancies if the president doesn't get those names up here to the senate. another complaint we hear, which is a distortion of the record, is the so-called delay in confirming nominees. those who raise this complaint only focus on the time a nominee is reported out of committee until confirmation, but the confirmation process is more than just senate floor action. for those who may not be familiar with the confirmation process, i would review. once a nomination is received, the committee takes an approp