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).
@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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Pluralistic: 2024’s public domain is a banger (20 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Unknown parent • •@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.
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