Gregory's ServerHappy #PublicDomainDay 2023! Here are a list of all the works that are entering the public domain this year. Please support #copyright reform so that we don't have to wait a century for today's works to enter the public domain!
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TILvids
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TILvids
This is correct, and only serves to underscore how out of control not only the United States, but also the entire world's copyright systems are. Whether the term is 70 years, 95 years, or 120 years, it's all absurd and far longer than needed to give a creator a period of time to profit off of their original works. Current copyright terms only serve to protect one thing: corporate interests. We need copyright reform across the board, and across the globe.
Carlos Solís
@tilvids
@rodgerkibble Personally, that's why I regard life + 100 as the true public domain term - otherwise, in this interconnected world, we might end up suggesting accidental copyright infringement in the territories where life + 70 is not the law anymore.
Carlos Solís
@tilvids
Big disclaimer: those are works entering the #PublicDomain *in the United States*! For the rest of the world, if we regard the longest copyright terms of all countries, today we're getting works from authors that died in 1922. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922#Deaths |
@tilvids Just a reminder that this only applies to US law: elsewhere the works of eg Virginia Woolf and Conan Doyle have been public domain for some time. In the UK and EU for example copyright in literary works expires 70 years after the author's death, regardless of the date of publication.