fan theysha. they were public domain. i think everybody would benefit to having access to works earlier. how they do that? i agree with your approach. we had in the united states until 1978 for most or 1992 for others, a system that actually was amazingly great at giving market signals for the work of thing. if you want to approach the question empireically, in the days a driven way, you would try to figure out how long figure out how long does the market itself say the commercial value a work is. all right. you would see, there's lots of different ways you can do it this you can see how long certain books are in print. or you can do what the gentleman was suggesting is look at formalities. 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 y