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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
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are they expecting to live 100 years from the point of writing? Till death of the author seems most sensible.
What about the creator who has a wife and family and passes away a day after publication in an accident? Sure, that example is a bit constructed and imo the death+50 years or 100 years are way too long, but I see value a) in the fact that artists need some time to finance their work and b) that some degree of inheritance is good.
That is no different from somebody who has a regular job or starts a business and passes away too soon. There is no security for the family either. In the end the main beneficiaries are big corporations and not creators.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#63TL;DR The Castle.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#64Just tell me when I get my Mickey Mouse hentai, will you?
> Under current copyright law, Steamboat Willie is set to enter the US public domain on January 1, 2024; however, later iterations of the character of Mickey Mouse will remain under copyright protection until 2025
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#65Copyright 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 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end of our lifetimes.
People like whom? Disney?
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#66Is the site broken?
Only two of the weird tile things work for me
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#67Is the site broken? Only two of the weird tile things work for me
No, it's their UX of releasing according to the current date.
Like a Christmas advent calendar.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#68Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#69Copyright 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…
It's especially bad for video games, but I don't see people discuss that so much. Think about this, probably 99% of games that are over 10 years old cannot be played legally on any modern hardware (console games at least, PC games are probably a bit better, but still might require some tinkering), that's a pretty serious loss of cultural history. I think copyright needs to be shortened if publishers don't make games available in simple and reasonably priced ways. Just sell me a ROM, I'll gladly pay for it.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2022
#70Just tell me when I get my Mickey Mouse hentai, will you?
The trademark will never expire so derivative works will be limited in scope.
Trademarks can not be used as a roundabout way to enforce copyrights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dastar_Corp._v._Twentieth_Cent....