Comment on When will "Star Wars: A New Hope" enter public domain?

• Newby@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why I didn’t say will but should. But your emphasis is apt.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First sentence of my post, for this very reason – they own the franchise, after all. The law may also change the other way but that’s very unlikely to happen in the US within 50 years.

  I wonder if they could develop a system of draconian DRM (only their own theatres with metal detectors, personalized online streams…) and mildly edit movies every few decades so that they can destroy the original and effectively renew copyright. The gaming industry’s always-online DRM makes nuking a release possible but copyright lasts for about 20 console generations so they don’t even have to do that.

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• IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They already lost control of Steamboat Willie. The limits of copyright have been reached. Disney even tried to leverage trademark by putting Steamboat Willie as the Disney logo at the beginning of all their movies. There is a limit to their ability to bend the law in their favor before reason takes over.

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• 50gp@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it would be quite hard to justify increasing it for even longer duration when all adults who saw the original release will be dead by the time copyright expires already

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Disney has already ruined US copyright laws multiple times, I wouldn’t put it past them to try again.

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    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s why it was hilarious when DeSantis thought he could win a legal battle against them.

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