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I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. I have a bachelor's degree in linguistics from Swarthmore College and a master's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. Feel free to email me at patrick@runkle.info.

From 2000 until 2004, I was the editorial director for ArtistPro, a music-industry trade publisher in the Bay Area. I also was editorial director for ArtistPro's short-lived national magazine, which was distributed to all the members of the GRAMMY organization. (That includes Phil Spector.)

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December 22, 2007

As I make my annual preparations for Life Day, I had a frightening thought: The Star Wars Holiday Special will not enter the public domain until January 1, 2074, assuming that there aren't any more questionably constitutional retroactive copyright extensions. Will it be officially released or re-broadcast before then, and, if not, will anyone in 2074 care about it? I looked up the Copyright Office registrations for the legendary program, and found two funny character copyright registrations, one for "baby wookie," described as having a "ghoulish face with animal's nose and long hair," and one for "grandfather wookie," described as having a "ghoulish face with protruding gums and long hair."