This week’s comic, The League of Public Domain Properties, is not only a comment on copyright extensions, but also a reference to Alan Moore and Kevin O’Niell’s excellent book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Their tinkering with various literary properties would not have been possible without those properties at some point lapsing into the public domain. Constitutional and Property arguments aside, don’t Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde at some point, decades after their author’s death, become part of our common ethereal culture? At this point, aren’t we all better off with artists like Moore and O’Neill being able to engage in a literary exploration of these characters?