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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I know that it’s important to get things into the public domain, but I feel apathetic about this as I have no interest in works this old. Music of this era is extremely low quality and so are films, etc. It’s like, okay, whatever, I guess.
It’s the characters that are most interesting to me. The Hardy Boys fell into public domain last year, Nancy Drew follows in a couple of years. Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh, obviously. Popeye. Sherlock Holmes.
These characters are still relevant in the public consciousness, and now they can appear in other works, be remixed, etc.
The Coconuts is pretty good though.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Then go yell at Disney. Without them, I think originally copyright was domething like 20 years.
Which means this year Greg the Bunny would be public domain. What? You never heard of Greg the Bunny??? Go ask Seth Green about that. Or ask Fox why you never heard of him.
At one point Fox canceled like 20 other shows, with Greg the Bunny being one of them, between the time Fox cancelled Family Guy, and the time they brought back Family guy. All 20 of these shows ran for like 1 seaaon, or less. Andy Richter had Andy Richter Controls the Universe. I think The Tick was part of that. Ironically starring the guy who Voices Joe from Family Guy. And I think 2004 was also the year they cancelled That 70s Show. I know that one lasted way longer that 1 season, but it would mean that Fox Cancels Family Guy. Then cancels shows starring Mila Kunis, Seth Green, and Patrick Warburton all in the same year. Then brings back Family guy.
Fox is a weird company.
JWBananas@lemmy.world 3 days ago
TL:DR youtu.be/0oMTmtN7lHI?si=Q3IF3TDij6jkaJ8t
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Also, why is it that different things enter the public domain at different times? For example, I learned of a movie from like the 1970s called The Last Man on Earth that is public domain, or at least I’m guessing it’s public domain, and yet it’s from the 1970s, where this is talking about stuff from 1929. I obviously know some stuff is made and released immediately into the public domain, such as open source software, etc. But I wouldn’t figure a movie would be like that.
vonxylofon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just FYI, most open source software is not in public domain, it is protected by the same copyright we are talking about here, except the author made it available under certain conditions (the licence).
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Good point, I didn’t even think of that because the GPL and MIT are so permissive.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
This has to do with how copyright laws changed over time, for example there used to be a requirement in the US for works to have a copyright notice, or for copyright to be renewed, so some things that didn’t meet those requirements became public domain earlier than they could have if the copyright holder had cared about all the formalities.