Post ARD5cckH2H6co2j4KW by plantarum@ottawa.place
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(DIR) Post #ARD5cbhOvTDJYqNGDI by plantarum@ottawa.place
2023-01-01T19:52:16Z
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Happy #PublicDomain day to my American friends! Like Thanksgiving, we celebrate later in Canada. Unlike Thanksgiving, we celebrate 20 years later, since #Trudeau brought in #copyright extensions that mean no new works will enter public domain until 2042.https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/the-canadian-government-makes-its-choice-implementation-of-copyright-term-extension-without-mitigating-against-the-harms/@pluralistic
(DIR) Post #ARD5cckH2H6co2j4KW by plantarum@ottawa.place
2023-01-01T19:55:55Z
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If I understand correctly, Arthur Conan Doyle's #SherlockHolmes, which fully entered US #publicDomain today was.already in the Canadian PD. Prior to 2022 our copyright terms were less egregious than the American version