A year ago, Ars Technica broke the news that three of the nation's most powerful rights holder groups in the country, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the Authors Guild, were not even going to try to pass legislation extending copyrights.
"It's not something we are pursuing," an RIAA spokesman told me.
The reason was simple, Grimmelmann argues: they knew they weren't going to win.
"There's now a well-organized, grassroots lobby against copyright expansion," Grimmelmann tells Ars. "There are large business interests now on the anti-expansion side. Also a wide popular movement that they can tie it into."
lol @ Thinking Disney won't pull the rug from under you in the eleventh hour.
Bitch, they own 90% of entertainment IP's now. Mickey won't public if they can get the heat off them.
lol @ Thinking Disney won't pull the rug from under you in the eleventh hour.
Bitch, they own 90% of entertainment IP's now. Mickey won't public if they can get the heat off them.
Mickey is, as Disney's logo, protected overall by trademark law (separate from copyright law), and further iterations of Mickey are still under copyright by Disney (for instance, him wearing gloves or his shorts being red, etc.)
I wouldn't be so sure. They have less than three years on the clock, though I suppose the Corporatecrats being in power isn't a great sign. :trumps They already shoved some unrelated anti-piracy streaming BS into the COVID relief package. :biden
Still, for now I'll operate under the assumption Disney won't be trying shit.
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The 2022 list is led by the A.A. Milne children's classic "Winnie the Pooh" and Ernest Hemingway's first novel, "The Sun Also Rises." Hemingway's first collection of short stories, "In Our Time," entered the public domain last year.
Another children's classic character, Felix Salten's "Bambi," as well as works by Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker and William Faulkner are also entering the public domain.
But there are some film gems entering this year, including Buster Keaton's "Battling Butler" and "The Son of the Sheik," the final film of early film star Rudolph Valentino before his sudden death at the age of 31.
All sound recordings published before 1923 are also heading to the public domain. That's the result of interesting public domain rules,according to Jennifer Jenkins, the director of Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain.
Less than 2 years left for Mickey Mouse 👀
Less than 2 years left for Mickey Mouse 👀
"oh it's only steamboat willie, and only that particular incarnation of him, the implementation of his world in kingdom hearts 2 represents a refresh of the IP"
I wonder if there's any remote recourse of fixing the damage Disney did to public domain?
like imagine if in 5 years the government is like "ok nah, this is ridiculous, we're accelerating it to 1950 this year"
Damn still 15 years until MGM's Wizard of Oz is public domain... Gotta sub out Ruby Slippers with Silver until then. (Along with a lot of other film-specific elements.)
I wonder if there's any remote recourse of fixing the damage Disney did to public domain?
like imagine if in 5 years the government is like "ok nah, this is ridiculous, we're accelerating it to 1950 this year"
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Tuesday proposed legislation that limits copyright protection to 56 years. According to the Copyright Clause Restoration Act of 2022, the law would retroactively apply to existing copyrights.
But even if Disney’s copyright for Steamboat Willie expires, only the original design of Mickey Mouse will hit the public domain. There have been several iterations of the character over the past century. The copyright for sorcerer Mickey, for example, which appeared in the 1940 movie Fantasia, expires in 2036.
Trademarks, which cover words and symbols used to identify products, may also serve to protect Disney’s business interests in controlling the commercial use of its characters.
but i guess anyone can make their own character design and name it mickey mouse, sort of like what marvel currently is doing to the norse pantheon? or the games being released that are set within the cthulhu mythos?
If the Copyright Acts of 1976 and 1998 get repealed (which is what Hawley's bill effectively does), Friday the 13th Part III (where Jason gets his mask) will enter public domain in just 16 years... :rejoiceNo, it won't. The bill (which won't even be brought up in committee because it's just for attention for a presidential campaign) doesn't do anything retroactively because that would be unconstitutional. We're never escaping this hell, babe.
If the Copyright Acts of 1976 and 1998 get repealed (which is what Hawley's bill effectively does), Friday the 13th Part III (where Jason gets his mask) will enter public domain in just 16 years... :rejoiceNo, it won't. The bill (which won't even be brought up in committee because it's just for attention for a presidential campaign) doesn't do anything retroactively because that would be unconstitutional. We're never escaping this hell, babe.
Look what you've done Tasty:
https://twitter.com/ign/status/1529613540704780289
6. Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
5. Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
4. Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
3. Carnival of Souls (1962)
2. The Last Man on Earth (1964)
1. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
it's scary seeing the internet archive being sued by pissy book publishers for behaving exactly as a library does
protections like fair use, section 230 and the first amendment feel like the only thing holding back a lot of regressive garbage that only benefits big corpos
I'm really not one of those crazies who worships muh freedums but every time an attempt at further restriction crops up, it always feels self-evident and obvious which side to support
feels like it's always a very narrow victory that protects sharing and backhands the corporations
Look what you've done Tasty:
https://twitter.com/ign/status/1529613540704780289
Never been on board with the "buying is hard so just pirate" mentality myself. But I'm the only weird non-pirate on this site I think so whatever, lol. I was different in high school but things changed after I got a job and started screenwriting on the side.
Also, you could always just... choose to not consoom... :doge
That said, you should definitely smash the fuck out of DRM whenever you come across it. Your content and devices should be your own, and it sucks jailbreaking/etc. is a felony atm.
20 Years Of Copyright Wars: Author and activist Cory Doctorow reflects on the fight over who owns what in a digital world (https://gizmodo.com/cory-doctorow-copyright-laws-tech-antitrust-1849376858)I like that people like Cory Doctorow are out there fighting this sort of fight for us with such considered thought and a distinct lack of hysteria.
20 Years Of Copyright Wars: Author and activist Cory Doctorow reflects on the fight over who owns what in a digital world (https://gizmodo.com/cory-doctorow-copyright-laws-tech-antitrust-1849376858)I like that people like Cory Doctorow are out there fighting this sort of fight for us with such considered thought and a distinct lack of hysteria.
20 Years Of Copyright Wars: Author and activist Cory Doctorow reflects on the fight over who owns what in a digital world (https://gizmodo.com/cory-doctorow-copyright-laws-tech-antitrust-1849376858)I like that people like Cory Doctorow are out there fighting this sort of fight for us with such considered thought and a distinct lack of hysteria.
https://archive.org/donateEFF is my Humble Bundle charity, I always change the presets to direct less to IGN and more to them and I've done some work for them. I don't always agree with them completely but their points per possession are very high.
https://eff.org/donate
https://donate.wikimedia.org
Just tossed $10 to each of these guys. Y'all should too. :)
Too many people forget about archive.org. :( The entire world would be far worse off if it ever went offline, and I don't know if it could ever be fully replaced as it exists today.
Too many people forget about archive.org. :( The entire world would be far worse off if it ever went offline, and I don't know if it could ever be fully replaced as it exists today.
On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.
Less than 2 years left for Mickey Mouse 👀
In fact, if I had to wager on who might try to push the limits of copyright terms (currently, it’s 95 years for corporate authorship, 70 years after the death of the author for individual works, plus some further wrinkles on the clock), I’d look at Wall Street instead. Private equity firms including Blackstone, KKR, and Apollo Global just spent billions of dollars buying half-century-old song catalogs, including Genesis for $300 million and Neil Young for $150 million. A couple decades from now, in all probability, people will still be listening to The Beatles and Bob Dylan, so it’s conceivable that someone on Wall Street makes a play—sooner or later—to tap that royalty drip a bit longer. That would be one way to up a return on investment.
The version of the iconic character from “Steamboat Willie” will enter the public domain in 2024. But those trying to take advantage could end up in a legal mousetrap.
That means early versions of Popeye, King Kong, Donald Duck, Flash Gordon, Porky Pig and Superman will enter the public domain at various points over the next decade.