Why are copyright laws allowed to expire?! That only brings in ways for people to distort the origins of these stories, characters, and the history of how these came to be 😢
Copyright laws don't expire, but copyrights do, right.
Personally, I like the history and origins of stories and ideas. When you mix it up, it feels like history is rewritten, and you get people believing things like Jack and Rose are a real love story during the sinking of the Titanic.
But is that an issue with folks remixing or is that more of an issue of media literacy? I would contend we need more education for our kids and adults to be able to discern that a film inspired by actual events doesn't mean that the entire work is fact.
I absolutely loved this article! Thank you! The subject, though fascinating to me, can be dry and uninspired, but you have made it a great read with wonderful visuals.
Thank you for sharing. Every young person considering entrepreneurship as a career should be enrolled in the local community 2 yr college. We talk about this in marketing classes, entrepreneur classes, etc.
I love it that Bluesky has a post about Public Domain Day! I'm an amateur musician living in an exurban area, and the music publishing companies have actually bothered to shut down small town street fairs for not paying up. So I look for the PDD list every year to see what songs we can play!
Protect our Public/School Libraries whatever the cost. Thomas Jefferson said our Freedom depends on the quality of our libraries and the number of books therein. Copyright free books at no cost, pdf's for download, can be found at https://Archive.org, make it a regular stop or go to YOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Cool stuff. As it applies to composers/arrangers, we can sell arrangements of tunes out of copyright for small ensembles, orchestra, chrolae, and pick up some coin. IMSLP has the list of music out of copyright. Good way to find obscure artists, esp. women composers.
It will be quite interesting to see which of these works will now be re-imagined & how. I wonder if Alfred Hitchcock would appreciate the advancement of ADR & sound used today🤔.…. Nice share Mark. Really enjoyed this article. Thanks🙏🏼
The left has a variety of outlets online today, each of which has pros and cons. Between TYT, Humanist Report, Secular Talk, Luke Beasley, Farron Cousins, and dozens more I haven't mentioned, there is a broad ecosystem. It just isn't well marketed these days, not as a whole.
Because they treat it like newness in a product rollout calendar, missing the point of IP which is affinity for that thing, outside of something flashy and new.
But that takes creative vision, which is not something they teach you when you get your MBA, so they churn and burn creative.
When in reality, there is a case to be made for most IP to be a 365 brand, if the people charged with product development, or even IP management, were super fans themselves.
It’s easy to copyright on photo shop go to file info and all of your camera info comes up and you select copyright and description of work and various other choices
That’s me I’m trying to register some photos . I have hit a wall because I’m technically challenged. I’m Canadian and have my key etc. but can’t figure out the pricing do I send copies some photos are poster size Tiffs large format. I’m trying to set up a web page I have copy righted on photoshop
Wow! It seems like 95-100 years isn’t necessarily enough time for an author. (I’m an author, so I’m biased that way.) But then I LOVE that we will have more open access to these great works!
95 years from the moment of creation isn't long enough for an author?
I am genuinely curious at the rationale for a century-long monopoly on a creative work, as not an author who might want to adapt older works in new ways.
My heirs should benefit from selling my intellectual property. Once the 95 years passes, ANYONE can publish my creations and I/my heirs have no say in the matter.
As an author who creates, it should always be mine or whomever I pass it down to’s. Imagine building a house from scratch on your property and 100 years later it becomes open to the public only because 100 years has passed. Something a mind builds should remain the possession of the creator. IMHO
“Ain’t Misbehavin’” is entering the public domain this year?!
That’s incredible news. I’ve loved Fats Waller for a long time and that song is definitely one of my favorites.
Thank you! 💛
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I don’t know if you are on the board of Bluesky but i think you should be and help make Bluesky a viable alternative to autocratic corrupt Twitter,Threats etc., Mark.
Often different renditions of cartoon characters are separately copyrighted. Hence the earliest Mickey Mouse is open but later versions are not. Don’t know about Popeye.
Instead of making crappy low-budget films based on children's characters (e.g. Popeye), people need to get more creative. How about a comedy musical version of "All Quiet on the Western Front"?
Come on low-budget movie makers. There are genres other than slasher-horror.
Ok so the guy that made the Winnie the Pooh movie is actually very passionate and that first fil gave him enough budget to make a sequel that is surprisingly good. Without these kinds of movies many young filmmakers wouldn’t get a chance. 1/2
In fact some of todays most respected filmmakers started in these kinds of bad horror movies including Spielberg, James Gun, Del Toro, Brian de Palma, Oliver Stone, Peter Jackson, James Cameron, and Coppola to name a few.
Preach. However, when it comes to dollars making sense, the slasher films get cranked out because they are the most affordable. Filmmaking is expensive. Comedy musicals (which I adore) are expensive.
In Library Land it's called Copy Left and many small publishers make a good living reprinting any print book that is available at the Internet Library which keeps track of open sourced free copyright. I reprint all the time books about Thomas Jefferson that were written in the late 1800s, fun reads
I'm interested in why Ivanka Trump has copyrights for voting machines in China. Her copyright for coffins is my second most concerning copyright. I mean WTF 🤔
In UK, it used to be 50yrs after author's death. So 60s EngLit pupils all had anthologies of the War Poets (many of whom were conveniently dead), which, in turn, may have fuelled the anti-war feelings of the time.
70yrs (as it is now) makes PD lit too remote to revisit.
Here is an example, When the original Mickey Mouse image became public domain, people like me were able to make and sell themed soap without worry. Even without including a copied image, they will come after you for just having a theme like it.
When the image becomes public domain, that is the way around it. Today, you could try and obtain a license to produced but the prices are typically out of reach. I won't even get close to the theme to avoid issues.
there's derivative works. For example setting a poem to music. Or making a short story into a play. Traditionally artists build on what came before, but since the "Sonny Bono" law a good portion of American art is inaccessible to the next generation of artists
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If copyrights never expired, we wouldn't have basically any Disney content, as Walt's leading focus was retelling of classic stories in a new medium.
I think copyright should be shorter to encourage folks to remix ideas.
Personally, I like the history and origins of stories and ideas. When you mix it up, it feels like history is rewritten, and you get people believing things like Jack and Rose are a real love story during the sinking of the Titanic.
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I think you are the person to lead the charge. Just sayin.
But that takes creative vision, which is not something they teach you when you get your MBA, so they churn and burn creative.
Putting the best fans, at that creative pinch point, then sell to them as one of their own.
Except turning Popeye into a slasher. That's just. . . no. . . ugh.
I am genuinely curious at the rationale for a century-long monopoly on a creative work, as not an author who might want to adapt older works in new ways.
https://comicbookmovie.com/horror/popeye-the-slayer-man-stalks-a-spinach-factory-in-gruesome-red-band-trailer-a214712#gs.ihx2fe
That’s incredible news. I’ve loved Fats Waller for a long time and that song is definitely one of my favorites.
Thank you! 💛
What an absurdly great Noir novel by Dashiell Hammett! It’s like getting punched in the gut by a mysterious redheaded dame.
Inception copyrighting 🤔
Very cool!
I interviewed them at a conference.
Quaint, now.
Come on low-budget movie makers. There are genres other than slasher-horror.
70yrs (as it is now) makes PD lit too remote to revisit.
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