Talk:Cheshire Cat/@comment-24090184-20150219194646/@comment-26097222-20150219222204

^ Wrong. Copyright has been perverted by lobbyists, but it has always been about furthering culture by encouraging artists to create by means of a time limited monopoly. Reregistering a work does nothing if the work is so old that no one can own it. A new version of it could be created if it was transformative, for example the way Disney takes old folk tales and makes cartoons -- the cartoon is copyrighted, but Disney doesn't gain ownership of the folk tales themselves.