ChaoticNeutralCzech
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- Comment on My moon is in Silty Loam but my Sun sign is Clay. 7 months ago:
Areas with loam touch all three sides. So… Some kind of loam exists without sand, some without clay and some without silt. I am not a soil scientist but I’d guess that any substance that contains neither is a kind of loam.
- Comment on When will "Star Wars: A New Hope" enter public domain? 9 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.
- Comment on When will "Star Wars: A New Hope" enter public domain? 9 months ago:
I think that at least the sub-title “Episode IV: A New Hope” was added in that DVD release… Anyway, a “4K77” scan of a 1977 film reel distributed directly by the studio exists, it’s just noisy and needed color correction.
- Comment on When will "Star Wars: A New Hope" enter public domain? 9 months ago:
find an original film print and have it scanned
The 4K77 project did just that, scan and color correction to reverse fading, and effectively no other processing so they cannot claim copyright. Arguably, Harmy’s Despecialized Edition cannot either, even if the original becomes public domain, as it could be argued that their effort only served a technical purpose. I don’t think you can scan, upscale and denoise Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney, 1928) and claim copyright on that even if you do it by hand.
- Comment on When will "Star Wars: A New Hope" enter public domain? 9 months ago:
Interesting… Too bad a right-holder can do minor edits to their work and effectively extend copyright (which is already very long in my opinion) if they nuke the previous version. Lucas was surprisingly successful in that, and I think game studios or other creators could do that today too with their aggressive DRM tactics.
- Comment on When will "Star Wars: A New Hope" enter public domain? 9 months ago:
Thank you, great point!
- Submitted 9 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 21 comments