https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/mouse-liberation-front/#free-mickey
'For the public domain, time stopped in 1998, when the Sonny Bono Copyright Act
froze copyright expirations for 20 years. In 2019, time started again, with a
massive crop of works from 1923 returning to the public domain, free for all to
use and adapt:
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/
No one is better at conveying the power of the public domain than Jennifer
Jenkins and James Boyle, who run the Duke Center for the Study of the Public
Domain. For years leading up to 2019, the pair published an annual roundup of
what we would have gotten from the public domain in a universe where the 1998
Act never passed. Since 2019, they've switched to celebrating what we're
actually getting each year. Last year's was a banger:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/free-for-2023/#oy-canada
But while there's been moderate excitement at the publicdomainification of
"Yes, We Have No Bananas," AA Milne's "Now We Are Six," and Sherlock Holmes,
the main event that everyone's anticipated arrives on January 1, 2024, when
Mickey Mouse enters the public domain.'
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
