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Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by Pxtl »

maxwell wrote: post #35
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.

Albums are weird and backwards in Canada because the actual recordings are 70 years flat (thanks to Randy Bachman of Bachman Turner Overdrive who was about to see his first albums enter public domain and lobbied the gov't to extend it from 50 to 70), but the copyright on the written composition is 50 years after death of author.

This strikes me as backwards - like, I feel like there's minimal public interest in getting the specific recording of the performance of the songs into the public domain, while substantial interest in getting the songbook into the public domain so that people can cover it and make derivative works freely. And yet the length of the copyright terms is far stricter on the songbook vs the album, where one is a fixed time from recording while the other adds the lifespan of the author to the mix.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by moffkalast »

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.

Are they expecting to live 100 years from the point of writing? Till death of the author seems most sensible.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by moffkalast »

est31 wrote: post #36
xwdv wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Reminder that Dante's Inferno was shitty fan fiction.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #28
thanatos519 wrote: post #20

Just tell me when I get my Mickey Mouse hentai, will you?

The trademark will never expire so derivative works will be limited in scope.

You can use trademarks without permission, you can disclaim the origin to avoid any possibility of confusion. AIUI EU courts have frowned on attempts to extend copyright using trademarks.

It feels like a lewd art piece would clearly not be from Disney in any case so trademark really wouldn't be an issue.

I learnt v.recently that UK copyright since 2015 has allowed parody and pastiche (following an EU directive from ~2001), so with a disclaimer on origin you might be able to have your Mickey manga right now?

I guess it will depend on whether Disney can buy another copyright extension in the USA and pay off enough people to push those changes to other jurisdictions based on very spurious notions that we somehow have to harmonise with USA.

This is not legal advice and in no way relates to my employment.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by moffkalast »

djxfade wrote: post #31
aftbit wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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")

The only title on the list I recognize, such a timeless classic.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by mdaniel »

keithnz wrote: post #23
keithnz wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mainly use ViolentMonkey for my own scripts

it's super underrated I think, I customize sites quite regularly now to fix things that annoy me! Either to remove things, or to modify content so it takes advantage of a big monitor

> or to modify content so it takes advantage of a big monitor

here's looking at you, GitHub diff div

    document.querySelector(".application-main .container-xl").style.maxWidth="100%"
/me shakes his fist

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by GhettoComputers »

est31 wrote: post #36
xwdv wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

LoL came from DOTA, which came from Warcraft (which also deviated into MMOs, a copy of Everquest), which came from them making a warhammer game and reusing assets. It never stopped.

Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Post by ggm »

CerealFounder wrote: post #30
bushbaba wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny as a patent is granted for much less time. You’d think patents and copyright would have the same duration

They used to be commiserate. For whatever reason media based rent seekers lobbied better than ones with technical products.

Spellchecker changed commensurate to commiserate. Most apposite!
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