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The Great American Novel enters the public domain on January 1, 2019
A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain
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I must admit I'm a little surprised that no-one's pushed for works that are currently in copyright in the US to gain a copyright that's the maximum of copyright length under old rules, and life+70.
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I think that the copyright battle is being fought more over movie and music copyright than over book copyright. Steamboat Willie came out in 1928, so we still have a few years before Disney gets worried.
From a movie, music point of view, I don't think we will see any big movement until the movies from the mid to late 30's come up (especially 1939). From a book point of view, I'm trying to think of a book that is worth enough money to fight over. The Hobbit came out in 1937. Maybe Gone With the Wind or some of the Agatha Christie books. |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_in_film "The Ten Commandments" (the silent film) dir. Cecil B. DeMille "Safety Last!" starring Harold Lloyd "The Covered Wagon" (the first American epic not directed by D.W. Griffith) Major Books that become public domain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_in_literature ) "Cane" by Jean Toomer (I already see two pre-orders that come out in 2019 for that) "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran "Murder on the Links" by Agatha Christie (the 2nd Hercule Poirot novel.) [Also several short Hercule Poirot stories may become public domain] 3 Georgette Heyer novels The final Psmith book by P.G. Wodehouse & the 2nd Jeeves short story collection. The original French text of Marcel Proust's The Prisoner (vol. 5 of In Search of Lost Time) Two English language translations of novels credited to Jules Verne as translated by Cranstoun Metcalfe (1866-1939) "New Hampshire" by Robert Frost (that is a big deal because Frost's estate strictly controls a certain popular poem in that https://www.mhpbooks.com/2019-will-b...public-domain/) January 1, 2019 will be a big Public Domain Day if Congress leaves this alone. I remain cautiously optimistic that the public domain will start growing again and books from the beginning of the Coolidge Adminstration will finally be set free. |
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I expect a rider to some important bill around midnight on the last day of the session this year. Probably by a voice vote. . .
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How is this putting the US "in harmony with the rest of the world" if they're not moving to life+70? What has 95 years got to do with anything? (Apart from being a panic reaction to the last time certain things were about to expire?)
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(Note the move to life +70 in Europe was strongly lobbied by the the US copyright holders before the US extended the US copyright. Nothing in the 1909 Berne agreement requires life + 70. . . . ) Because of the flat rate override, only one year (1922, because the extension bill didn't get passed at the end of the year, and got passed early the next year) has gone into the public domain in 39 + years. . . The Mouse House successfully lobbied twice already for extensions, I can't believe they are about to stop now . . . |
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