The Custodian Of The Past.

I've come to terms with the fact that I am The Custodian of the Past.
There are more and more examples of how this manifests itself.
The latest is the TV commercial for the United States Postal Service.
It is airing constantly now that it's Christmas Season.
It's a very tasteful commercial about how if you are sending packages for Christmas, you can't do better than by using the U.S. Postal Service.
Better than FedEx, better than UPS.
Where it goes off the rails is it's use of the standard song "Oh there's no place like home for the holidays."
Now, it's not the classic recording made by Perry Como.
It's a newly-minted recording by an artist unknown to me.
He sings it well enough, but it's just not Perry.
Until this year, Perry owned this song.
The Carpenters covered it, but it was still Perry's song.
The Carpenters were just renting it out.
It belonged to Perry.
Perry also had a lease on "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas".
But he didn't own it.
If this commercial runs many more times, Perry will lose his rightful ownership of it.
How much could it have cost to pay Perry's estate to have used his version?
Couldn't have been much.
It's like using someone else's version of "White Christmas".  Which is like the only thing
Bing Crosby has left.  How sad is that?
Then it would just be about how he beat his kids.
It's a sad state of affairs, and why I have to exercise my role as Custodian of the Past.

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