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Old 01-01-2023, 11:34 AM   #1
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Happy Sherlock Holmes Public Domain Day
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the U.S. This means that the Conan Doyle Estate can no longer sue somebody who writes an adaptation where Sherlock Holmes is "too friendly."

Some people are already worried that this means people will rush off to create Sherlock Holmes horror movies (as was done with Winnie the Pooh). Or (gasp!) Sherlock Holmes erotica. If the 1970s could survive Michael Dibdin's The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, we can survive whatever comes next.
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Old 01-01-2023, 01:34 PM   #2
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Next year is the big year. Disney's Steamboat Willie was released in 1928 and it's impending public domain release has caused so many problems with US copyright. Let's see if there isn't some 11th hour extension suddenly put in place this year.

I'm hopeful that once that happens and Disneyland doesn't spontaneously combust we will stop getting these crazy copyright extensions.
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Old 01-01-2023, 02:24 PM   #3
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I'm confused. He died in 1930!

Bring back Life +50. The extensions do nothing for creators and are just corporate greed.
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Old 01-01-2023, 03:26 PM   #4
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US copyright for works written during much of the 20th century is complicated.
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Old 01-01-2023, 04:18 PM   #5
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Bring back Life +50. The extensions do nothing for creators and are just corporate greed.
Heck, I’d rather go back to copyright for 28 years with a one-time extension of another 28 years. Which was the deal in effect when the books entering public domain now were published! The retroactive benefit can’t be justified in terms of encouragement to the artist, that part’s over, or the public weal.
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Here are a few more books, movies and musical compositions now in public domain (U.S.):

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/
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I'm far more excited about these titles:
  • Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
  • Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
  • Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women (collection of short stories)
  • Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé (the final installment of In Search of Lost Time, in the original French)
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Heck, I’d rather go back to copyright for 28 years with a one-time extension of another 28 years. Which was the deal in effect when the books entering public domain now were published! The retroactive benefit can’t be justified in terms of encouragement to the artist, that part’s over, or the public weal.
Well, I'd vote for that.
It is purely for corporates and has little value. It's not even about protecting the names and shapes of say Mickey Mouse or the Disney version of Seven Dwarfs as those are trademarks and probably also protected by Registered Design/Design Patent.

Also retroactive lengthening seems very dishonest.
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US copyright for works written during much of the 20th century is complicated.
Yes, and when US is doing a trade deal they say you've got to take US copyright rules.
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Heck, I’d rather go back to copyright for 28 years with a one-time extension of another 28 years. Which was the deal in effect when the books entering public domain now were published!
Yeah, I think most of the general public (at least those that could be bothered to have an opinion) would agree with you.

Unfortunately we aren't the ones represented when these laws are being put into place.
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Yeah, I think most of the general public (at least those that could be bothered to have an opinion) would agree with you.

Unfortunately we aren't the ones represented when these laws are being put into place.
Hey, we have the finest politicians money can buy!
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[*]Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women (collection of short stories)[/LIST]
Project Gutenberg has this already from the fadedpage edition. Fadedpage is life+50 and Project Gutenberg is US copyright.

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/69683
https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160117

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Obsolete. Politicians these days are rented.
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Obsolete. Politicians these days are rented.
Month-to-month, short term lease or long term lease?

How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving!
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