Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--George Santayana
The past is the luxury of proprietors.
--Jean-Paul Sartre
The Globe and Mail has an interesting story about how reports on the effects of increasingly restrictive permissions costs on documentary filmmaking (registration required, natch).
As a big fan of documentaries, I find this a bit sad. I certainly believe in copyright protection, but they may be right that certain types of history could, in fact, become a commodity. So much else has.
Book(s) of the Night: Lucky Child : A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung (review). AND Welfare Brat: A Memoir, by Mary Childers (review). Both read on Sunday.