Super Swanky Site for Your Surfing Pleasure

[Ghoulish Delight]

Uh-oh, did I just notice a "buy art" link under each of those images?

[Alex]

Not something that appeals to me (I demand more purple in art). I'm sure they must be legitmately able to sell these prints of other peoples works but at least some acknowledgment of the original artists, publications, etc. would be nice (and the lack is what makes me wonder; most of these prints would be from dates that are not yet in the public domain).

They also think their customers are stupid:

We started out in 1999 as EphemeraNow. (Pronounced "Ephema . . . wha?") After a few years our business manager, who's sharp as a tack, thought it might be good to have a name that the average person could say and spell (not to mention understand), so we became Plan59 in January 2006.

[3894]

It's 70 years on the copyright, n'est-ce pas, Alexandre?

Plan59 is a better business name than EphemeraNow. Do some of my fellow vintage swanksters recall those braindead Ecology Now! bumperstickers from the early 1970's?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by 3894

Do some of my fellow vintage swanksters recall those braindead Ecology Now! bumperstickers from the early 1970's?

I recall those. Does that mean I am vintage?

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by 3894

It's 70 years on the copyright, n'est-ce pas, Alexandre?

Plan59 is a better business name than EphemeraNow. Do some of my fellow vintage swanksters recall those braindead Ecology Now! bumperstickers from the early 1970's?

My Brain went to Seinfeld and "Serenity Now!"

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

My Brain went to Seinfeld and "Serenity Now!"

Let's get a new one going:

"Serendipity Then!"

[Alex]

Originally Posted by 3894

It's 70 years on the copyright, n'est-ce pas, Alexandre?

Plan59 is a better business name than EphemeraNow. Do some of my fellow vintage swanksters recall those braindead Ecology Now! bumperstickers from the early 1970's?

Better at what? Being stylish or conveying what the business does? Is Plan 59 a reference to something I'm too clueless to recognize? With Ephemera Now I have an immediate (if vague) idea as to the area they're working in. But the "they think you're stupid" is to the idea that their average customer couldn't pronounce ephemera nor knew what it means. I'm sure they meant it jokily but it's an odd practice.

But then maybe I'm way too skewed on that word since I once spent a month learning how to catalog ephemera.

As for the copyright, potentially the period is 95 years. I looked into it a bit more and for the things shown on that site they were probably published during the period (pre-1964) when the term was only 28 years and required an explicit renewal. If they did renew they'd be swept up into the current 95 year term. But for advertising materials it is probably unlikely that many companies spent time on the renewals.

Trademark protections might still apply for living trademarks though.

But my concerns are позаботьтесь о и исключите, Челень.

[wendybeth]

That aqua kitchen is going to give me nightmares.