I guess it's nice that the first Mikey Mouse is now in #PublicDomain, but where are all of those other lesser known freshly Public Domain works that are small gems and can now be recovered from oblivion?
Saw that Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh has entered public domain. Never read it, but I've enjoyed Brideshead Revisited by him in multiple forms (particularly the Jeremy Irons TV mini-series).
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Mickey Mouse is to corporate IP rent seeking as marijuana is to the War On Drugs, the thing which once it breaks free might let us get rid of the whole stupid destructive system.
I am sure there are sites with a list of new public domain things (the federal government in Canada sold us out so no Public Domain Day here for 20 years)
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@bookandswordblog my understanding is that this is not really the time when anything Disney has really become free to use, that there are still so many limitations on the use of Mickey Mouse as a character (thanks to trademarks, subsequent restyling, etc.) that they could afford letting the copyright expire (instead of lobbying for another extension) because nothing is really going to change anyway.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •check this excellent article by @pluralistic.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/20/em-oh-you-ess-ee/#sexytimes
Pluralistic: 2024’s public domain is a banger (20 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/
and the thread at
https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/111680233393515679
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Mickey Mouse is to corporate IP rent seeking as marijuana is to the War On Drugs, the thing which once it breaks free might let us get rid of the whole stupid destructive system.
I am sure there are sites with a list of new public domain things (the federal government in Canada sold us out so no Public Domain Day here for 20 years)
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@bookandswordblog my understanding is that this is not really the time when anything Disney has really become free to use, that there are still so many limitations on the use of Mickey Mouse as a character (thanks to trademarks, subsequent restyling, etc.) that they could afford letting the copyright expire (instead of lobbying for another extension) because nothing is really going to change anyway.
I'd love to be proved wrong.
David Grigg
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