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What will enter the public domain in 2026?
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Re: What will enter the public domain in 2026?
#32> works by people who died in 1955
70 years. After death.
The rules have to change. 70 years is way too long.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2026?
#33> works by people who died in 1955 70 years. After death. The rules have to change. 70 years is way too long.
I was actually extremely surprised that Disney didn't bribe congress and stop Mickey Mouse from ending up in the public domain.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2026?
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
no, it restricts copying, making copies
“Copying” here refers to distribution and derivation, at least in the US. It is entirely legal to create copies of media for personal usage for instance (so long as you aren’t circumventing DRM, thanks DMCA).
This isn't correct. It is infringement, for example, to write Harry Potter fan fiction in private on a typewriter, even if another soul never sees it. Copyright includes creation, not just distribution
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2026?
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
What really sends home just how ridiculously long it takes public domain to kick in to me is that Mein Kampf is on that list. It feels like something that even in 1996 would have been a bit eye-raisingly overdue.
That is only for Spain, which has copyright of Death of Author + 80.
Are you mistaking William Faulkner's mustache for Hitler's?
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2026?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Copying” here refers to distribution and derivation, at least in the US. It is entirely legal to create copies of media for personal usage for instance (so long as you aren’t circumventing DRM, thanks DMCA).
This isn't correct. It is infringement, for example, to write Harry Potter fan fiction in private on a typewriter, even if another soul never sees it. Copyright includes creation, not just distribution
Better let AO3 in on that
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2026?
#37For a literature-focused list of items entering the US public domain on 2026, Standard Ebooks has 20 ebooks prepared for release on January 1: https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
I don't think that they are allowed to prepare copyrighted items for release in advance of them being in the public domain.
I prepared three of the works listed here for Standard Ebooks, and I’m not in the US so I’m definitely not covered by US copyright law on my own machine.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2026?
#38Re: What will enter the public domain in 2026?
#39A lot of WW2 heavyhitters from all sides:
Hitler, Mussolini, Patton, Churchill, Goebels. Even Anne Frank and Einstein.
Re: What will enter the public domain in 2026?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
no, it restricts copying, making copies
“Copying” here refers to distribution and derivation, at least in the US. It is entirely legal to create copies of media for personal usage for instance (so long as you aren’t circumventing DRM, thanks DMCA).
from the about page:
Standard Ebooks is organized as a “low-profit L.L.C.,” or “L3C,” a kind of legal entity that blends the charitable focus of a traditional not-for-profit with the ease of organization and maintenance of a regular L.L.C.
corporations cannot make "personal copies" of copyrighted works, otherwise they'd buy just one copy of microsoft office