Hi. I posted this over in the Copyright forum, but I thought that you might like to see it as well. It has been a long time since I have read through the Canadian Copyright law (five years) and eight for the U.S.A Copyright law. I'm a library tech in Canada and we needed to be well versed in copyright law. You also must remember that most of the major countries have also signed international copyright agreements to protect international interests. I think that if the U.S. passed such a law there would be severe backlash from the international community. I am going to to start researching Canada, U.S. and international copyright law tomorrow and will try and post my findings when I can. While I think I only have one image on Renderosity (and it's not really worth stealing). As for work that fall in to Public Domain, at least in Canada works that fall into PUblic Domain are: 1) Works, in which 50-75 years have passed since the the original author has passed away. 2) Works that have been around since before Copyright laws have come into place (for example the Works of William Shakespeare, or Johnathan Swift, along with most music written before the 1800s. This does not include works that present the original conent in a new performance. So music by Mozart would be in the public domain, but, the London Symphony Orchestra recording of Motzart's opera the Magic Flute would be protected under copyright laws. There are laws in Canada that promote "fair use" execptions. Several involve Education, but I will have to look up what these exceptions are as I don't remember. More to follow. Sincerely, David Lein