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For Albert Clarke, the Rise of 'Goodnight Moon' Is No Storybook Romance (2000)

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Re: For Albert Clarke, the Rise of 'Goodnight Moon' Is No Storybook Romance (2000)

#21

For me, the primary takeaway from this article is the absurdity of copyright lifetimes that keep a book published in 1947 out of the public domain, printing money for people who had no part in creating it.

I feel like the time is ripe to change that. It used to be that copyrights were held by big corporations and small enterprises were the ones who wanted to infringe. Now copyrights are held by millions of users and big corporations like Google and Facebook want to make money off that content. They could lobby for a major change to copyright law.

Re: For Albert Clarke, the Rise of 'Goodnight Moon' Is No Storybook Romance (2000)

#22
we read this book to my son almost every night, and when we get to "good night nobody" he gets anxious and tries to turn then page quickly. Anyways, after reading this article I'll never look at this book the same again, not sure if good or bad.

Re: For Albert Clarke, the Rise of 'Goodnight Moon' Is No Storybook Romance (2000)

#24
Tangentially related, my grandmother purchased Clarke’s Cape Cod cottage that is mentioned in the article. Clark approached a real estate agent saying the property needed to sell by the end of the week. My grandmother, who was not wealthy, offered what she had and Clark immidiately accepted. He was described as an “interesting fellow”.

Re: For Albert Clarke, the Rise of 'Goodnight Moon' Is No Storybook Romance (2000)

#25

For the love of god can anyone explain the "good night nobody" line to me? I read this book to my kids and that part has been eating me.

Lately, my daughter (18 months) has been obsessed with "goodnight nobody". She will skip straight to that page and repeat "nobody" over and over again!
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