“You were hundreds of thousands of visitors to admire the paintings of the famous surreal Belgian artist on this site. Our site is free and wants to inform the public about the news and work of the painter. Unfortunately, copyrights laws do not allow us to represent Magritte’s works on the Internet for free anymore.”

The above is from The Magritte Site — and it warns us all of the sorry state of the copyright wars.

Happy birthday anyway, Rene. I hope the cartoon won’t get me tossed behind bars. I know you, yourself, won’t mind me ripping off your blazing tubas, but the holders of the rights to your life and death need money.

I’m not even certain I won’t get busted for mentioning your birthday. That could be privileged information that the I Own The Internet Corporation wants to keep in the locked jewelry case.

We’ll see. The test is the following link to an actual painting. Come visit me in jail.