They should stick to publishing living authors instead of trying to monetise the PD works.
Maybe Disney & friends should have had a special copyright dispensation instead of the crazy extension of life + ever-increasing-years for everything.
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The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran for twenty years on BBC prime-time television. Running from 1958 to 1978, it was a weekly variety show that presented traditional American minstrel and country songs, as well as show tunes and music hall numbers, lavishly costumed. —Wikipedia
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Wasn't it more than 20 years past its sell by date in 1958 and always offensive? I lived in the UK till 1983 so remember my parents watching it.
The band in Wodehouse's book as a plot point is certainly offensive but it was even more a real thing in real life than the 20 years later start of the BBC thing. Which even as a kid I thought was very weird. Also puzzled by Al Jolson and the sequence in Bing Crosby's Holiday Inn. I thought, why are people doing this?