They stole something from you. For decades, they stole it. That thing they stole? Your entire culture. For all of human history, works created in living memory entered the public domain every year. 40 years ago, that stopped.
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The late 1920s were super horny. This year's public domain time-capsule from 1928 includes #DHLawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, #ColePorter's Let's Do It, Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Khan and Donaldson's Makin' Whoopee, and, horniest of all, Milne's House at Pooh Corner, featuring the first appearance of literature's greatest perennial sex-pest: #Tigger.
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