I suggest looking at the https://publicdomainreview.org/ for a more comprehensive listings,
and this one for books:
Public Domain Day 2026
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Re: Public Domain Day 2026
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who would the fee go to? Copyright should be for the consumer. I should be able to modify the works of my own lifetime.
Imagine simply owning your digital music, video, and game purchases in your own lifetime.
I've been imagining even just having legal access to the Spotify (or similar) API to legally stream music, so I could pay the rights holders without having to deal with these annoying interfaces. Can I not have that? I'm even willing to use an sdk with a drm blob if I have to.
Re: Public Domain Day 2026
#13In an equitable world, LLMs would only provide answers from Yet another argument for copyright being far too long.
Well, there's a massive amount of public domain and creative commons content being released all the time; we don't need to wait for copyrighted works.
Re: Public Domain Day 2026
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine simply owning your digital music, video, and game purchases in your own lifetime.
I've been imagining even just having legal access to the Spotify (or similar) API to legally stream music, so I could pay the rights holders without having to deal with these annoying interfaces. Can I not have that? I'm even willing to use an sdk with a drm blob if I have to.
DRM is on my no list. I want my operating system to respect my freedoms and privacy.
I'm barely willing to tolerate Steam's default DRM a little. Those are 'just games' and that particular version doesn't try very hard, plus the rest of the package (network effect, servers, and a strongly customer friendly brand) combine to balance out the negatives. I'm generally hopeful that as things become classic Steam will either continue to maintain the access servers or release versions that work properly without them.
For static media, just give me a reasonable way to pay a reasonable fee for the use license and place to get an unencumbered official high fidelity copy to enjoy.
Paraphrased: 'Copyright infringement indicates a customer service failure.' At least with respect to anyone who'd have considered the purchase in the first place.
Re: Public Domain Day 2026
#15In an equitable world, LLMs would only provide answers from Yet another argument for copyright being far too long.