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What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by djxfade »

aftbit wrote: post #22
PowerfulWizard wrote: post #5

For those of us who are helplessly impatient, run this in console: document.querySelectorAll(".countdown-calendar__door").forEach(e => e.classList.add("will-open"))

Here's all of the titles: Arnold Schoenberg W. B. Yeats’ Estrangement Vladimir Nabokov’s Mary Sinclair Lewis A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh Faust directed by F. W. Murnau Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd D. H. Lawrence’s The Plumed Serpent Igor Stravinsky Don Juan directed by Alan Crosland Louis Armstrong Battling Butler directed by Buster Keaton Diane Arbus Oscar Micheaux William Faulkner’s Soldiers’ Pay…

Oh great! I have been looking forward to $$('.door-interior span.title').map(x=>x.textContent).join("\n")

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by xwdv »

camjohnson26 wrote: post #24

Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when the copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to expire? Only the companies who sell licensed merchandise. Think about how many fan works we’ll never see because we bizarrely decided to grant creators a monopoly on whatever they create, even if the work enters the public mythology like with Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. The people of the country…

The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by maxwell »

Pxtl wrote: post #25

Worth noting that during the USMCA negotiations under Trump, Canada agreed to extend copyright to life-plus-70 years, up from the current life-plus-50. However, Canada has a 2 year deadline (from 1 July 2020) to actually implement the change to life-plus-70.

Sounds like the Doors may slip through.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by est31 »

xwdv wrote: post #32
camjohnson26 wrote: post #24

Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when the copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to expire? Only the companies who sell licensed merchandise. Think about how many fan works we’ll never see because we bizarrely decided to grant creators a monopoly on whatever they create, even if the work enters the public mythology like with Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. The people of the country…

The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes.

The greatest works of past times are "shitty fan works". In the eras before copyright, people were taking each other's works all the time, and improving upon it.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by paulryanrogers »

xwdv wrote: post #32
camjohnson26 wrote: post #24

Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when the copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to expire? Only the companies who sell licensed merchandise. Think about how many fan works we’ll never see because we bizarrely decided to grant creators a monopoly on whatever they create, even if the work enters the public mythology like with Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. The people of the country…

The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes.

Disney has plenty of derivative dribble. One might even argue they've had to buy other creators to escape their old strategy of rehashing pre-copyright fairytales.

People will create even if the long tail of profit is cut short.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by [deleted] »

xwdv wrote: post #32
camjohnson26 wrote: post #24

Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when the copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to expire? Only the companies who sell licensed merchandise. Think about how many fan works we’ll never see because we bizarrely decided to grant creators a monopoly on whatever they create, even if the work enters the public mythology like with Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. The people of the country…

The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes.

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Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by GhettoComputers »

camjohnson26 wrote: post #24

Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when the copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to expire? Only the companies who sell licensed merchandise. Think about how many fan works we’ll never see because we bizarrely decided to grant creators a monopoly on whatever they create, even if the work enters the public mythology like with Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. The people of the country…

What’s the incentive for spending any resources on creative works, or research and development? The twilight fanfic 50 shades of gray benefited from becoming its own brand as did league of legends from DOTA which was derived from warcraft, when blizzard was making a warhammer 40K game, so you’re not making a great point.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by shrubble »

xwdv wrote: post #32
camjohnson26 wrote: post #24

Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when the copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to expire? Only the companies who sell licensed merchandise. Think about how many fan works we’ll never see because we bizarrely decided to grant creators a monopoly on whatever they create, even if the work enters the public mythology like with Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. The people of the country…

The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes.

Brilliant as JRR Tolkien was, I don't think he had the ability to see into the future of copyright law.

Therefore I believe that his motivation lay elsewhere.

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