"The Christmas Classic that Almost Wasn't"

Ronald J. Rychlak explains how copyright law helped to make It's a Wonderful Life a Christmas classic:

The other night, along with many other Americans, I watched the Frank Capra classic It's a Wonderful Life. Starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed, the movie has become a Christmas staple -- but it was not always that way, and how it attained its holiday status has as much to do with the intricacies of intellectual property law as it does with the storyline and the production values.

Read how here.

(Hat tip: The Volokh Conspiracy.)