[HN Gopher] What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2022?
___________________________________________________________________
What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2022?
Author : Amorymeltzer
Score : 131 points
Date : 2021-12-02 18:54 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (publicdomainreview.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (publicdomainreview.org)
| Teknoman117 wrote:
| A lot of the early SD card patents are expiring, so maybe soon we
| won't have to pay SD association in order to use the 4-pin data
| mode on SD cards.
| Pxtl wrote:
| Worth noting that during the USMCA negotiations under Trump,
| Canada agreed to extend copyright to life-plus-70 years, up from
| the current life-plus-50. However, Canada has a 2 year deadline
| (from 1 July 2020) to actually implement the change to life-
| plus-70.
| maxwell wrote:
| Sounds like the Doors may slip through.
| Pxtl wrote:
| Albums are weird and backwards in Canada because the actual
| recordings are 70 years flat (thanks to Randy Bachman of
| Bachman Turner Overdrive who was about to see his first
| albums enter public domain and lobbied the gov't to extend it
| from 50 to 70), but the copyright on the written composition
| is 50 years after death of author.
|
| This strikes me as backwards - like, I feel like there's
| minimal public interest in getting the specific recording of
| the performance of the songs into the public domain, while
| substantial interest in getting the songbook into the public
| domain so that people can cover it and make derivative works
| freely. And yet the length of the copyright terms is far
| stricter on the songbook vs the album, where one is a fixed
| time from recording while the other adds the lifespan of the
| author to the mix.
| bluedays wrote:
| Something something bad design, give me my upvotes for saying
| what everyone else already said.
| VBprogrammer wrote:
| Mickey mouse? Naw, didn't think so.
| maxwell wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_in_public_domain#Entering...
| coolspot wrote:
| They will claim that the author (Walt Disney) is not dead, just
| frozen in sleep, so copyright doesn't expire.
| lucumo wrote:
| This design mimics a traditional advent calendar. I think it's
| kind of cute.
| nemo44x wrote:
| It's a really bad UX though. There should at least be a link to
| just a standard list of things.
| aaron695 wrote:
| Great even more reboots.
|
| Can't _anyone_ have an original thought anymore?
|
| Disney tells us Winnie the Poo is part of our culture, because
| the more of our culture they own the more money they get, so our
| response is to fight for these old shitty copyrights?
|
| Not create a new book, or film, or interactive game. We can only
| copy and remake and sequel and reboot and Universe.
|
| And people think when we get UBI people can sit around all day
| creating art.
| jurassic wrote:
| The 1950 United States census will also be released by the
| National Archives in April 2022. There will be much rejoicing
| among genealogy nerds.
| DantesKite wrote:
| This is the worst site I've ever visited. By far. It is acutely
| annoying. Like if I had to design something to frustrate a
| person, this would be the platonic ideal.
| thanatos519 wrote:
| Just tell me when I get my Mickey Mouse hentai, will you?
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| The trademark will never expire so derivative works will be
| limited in scope.
| pbhjpbhj wrote:
| You can use trademarks without permission, you can disclaim
| the origin to avoid any possibility of confusion. AIUI EU
| courts have frowned on attempts to extend copyright using
| trademarks.
|
| It feels like a lewd art piece would clearly not be from
| Disney in any case so trademark really wouldn't be an issue.
|
| I learnt v.recently that UK copyright since 2015 has allowed
| parody and pastiche (following an EU directive from ~2001),
| so with a disclaimer on origin you might be able to have your
| Mickey manga right now?
|
| I guess it will depend on whether Disney can buy another
| copyright extension in the USA and pay off enough people to
| push those changes to other jurisdictions based on very
| spurious notions that we somehow have to harmonise with USA.
|
| _This is not legal advice and in no way relates to my
| employment._
| bombastry wrote:
| In addition to its annoying layout, this site bizarrely decides
| to mix public domain works from the various different major
| copyright systems together (life + 50 years, life + 70 years, the
| old American system of 95 years). For example, Nabokov's first
| novel in Russian, Mary, is listed because it was published in
| 1926; he died in 1977 which means in virtually every non-American
| country, that work will still be copyrighted until 2028.
|
| They also include Jim Morrison who died in 1971, whose death is
| only relevant to the countries still on the life + 50 years
| system. However, it seems like very few of the Doors' songs give
| just Morrison songwriting credit. This means that only a small
| handful of Doors songs will be in the public domain in those
| countries and most likely this will not apply to the recordings
| either.
|
| For American readers, the best way to find out what will be
| entering the public domain is to go directly to the Wikipedia
| pages for the "1926 in literature"[1], "1926 in film"[2], etc.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_in_literature
|
| [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_in_film
| punnerud wrote:
| Anyone with a webpage that publish everything that gets public?
|
| Could upload to YouTube and Archive.org, but we still need some
| place to know what is published and what is not yet found.
| WoodenChair wrote:
| Well, that's a super annoying design. Listicles are popular for a
| reason.
| wolpoli wrote:
| Plus there is a newsletter subscription popup box with no close
| button, but you have to somehow figure out that you need to
| click in the grey area outside to close.
| fullstop wrote:
| There is a close button in the far upper right. Also,
| clicking outside of the box dismissed the popup. I did not
| test pressing escape.
| ocdtrekkie wrote:
| The fact I'd need to go check this every day (or check it on
| the last day) to see everything is... inane.
| owlbynight wrote:
| This is easily the worst UX of the year for me. Designed by an
| absolute alien. Do they really think I'm going to come to this
| site every day to see a GIS thumbnail instead of just doing a
| google search to find the entire, unopinionated list?
| gweinberg wrote:
| TL;DR The Castle.
| camjohnson26 wrote:
| Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when the
| copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to expire?
| Only the companies who sell licensed merchandise. Think about how
| many fan works we'll never see because we bizarrely decided to
| grant creators a monopoly on whatever they create, even if the
| work enters the public mythology like with Star Wars or Lord of
| the Rings. The people of the country should own the stories and
| characters after a reasonable length of time, and 100 years is
| laughable.
| GhettoComputers wrote:
| What's the incentive for spending any resources on creative
| works, or research and development? The twilight fanfic 50
| shades of gray benefited from becoming its own brand as did
| league of legends from DOTA which was derived from warcraft,
| when blizzard was making a warhammer 40K game, so you're not
| making a great point.
| civilized wrote:
| Why would we believe that the incentive is materially
| different if copyright is 50 or 30 years rather than 100? The
| vast majority of earnings on a creative work are in the few
| decades immediately following release. Who is going "I won't
| write this book because it might make me money for only 30
| years rather than 100"?
| throwawaycities wrote:
| Historically there might be just as many authors (and other
| artists) who's works didn't become popular and make money
| until after their death, as those that became rich and
| famous during their lifetime.
|
| Of course it seems "times are a changin" and the vast
| majority of fame comes in the form of a viral and fleeting
| 15 minutes. Perhaps the law could catch up with the times,
| by having life imitate art and literally give copyright
| protection no more than 15 minutes.
| bushbaba wrote:
| Funny as a patent is granted for much less time. You'd think
| patents and copyright would have the same duration
| CerealFounder wrote:
| They used to be commiserate. For whatever reason media based
| rent seekers lobbied better than ones with technical
| products.
| ggm wrote:
| Spellchecker changed commensurate to commiserate. Most
| apposite!
| intricatedetail wrote:
| > Copyright law has damaged global culture. Who benefits when
| the copyright to Winnie-the-Pooh takes almost 100 years to
| expire?
|
| Xi Jinping
| xwdv wrote:
| The 100 year expiration is necessary for encouraging people to
| make new things rather than just shitty fan works until the end
| of our lifetimes.
| shrubble wrote:
| Brilliant as JRR Tolkien was, I don't think he had the
| ability to see into the future of copyright law.
|
| Therefore I believe that his motivation lay elsewhere.
| _jal wrote:
| ...Which explains why there was no great art made before
| 1998, right?
| moffkalast wrote:
| Are they expecting to live 100 years from the point of
| writing? Till death of the author seems most sensible.
| johannes1234321 wrote:
| What about the creator who has a wife and family and passes
| away a day after publication in an accident?
|
| Sure, that example is a bit constructed and imo the
| death+50 years or 100 years are way too long, but I see
| value a) in the fact that artists need some time to finance
| their work and b) that some degree of inheritance is good.
| NoSorryCannot wrote:
| What does the average person have to do to provide their
| family this kind of security?
|
| I don't think copyright needs to do double duty as life
| insurance and it is mostly not helpless widows that are
| benefitting from it.
| spaetzleesser wrote:
| That is no different from somebody who has a regular job
| or starts a business and passes away too soon. There is
| no security for the family either. In the end the main
| beneficiaries are big corporations and not creators.
| est31 wrote:
| The greatest works of past times are "shitty fan works". In
| the eras before copyright, people were taking each other's
| works all the time, and improving upon it.
| moffkalast wrote:
| Reminder that Dante's Inferno was shitty fan fiction.
| GhettoComputers wrote:
| LoL came from DOTA, which came from Warcraft (which also
| deviated into MMOs, a copy of Everquest), which came from
| them making a warhammer game and reusing assets. It never
| stopped.
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Disney has plenty of derivative dribble. One might even argue
| they've had to buy other creators to escape their old
| strategy of rehashing pre-copyright fairytales.
|
| People will create even if the long tail of profit is cut
| short.
| lgrialn wrote:
| It's "drivel". But you're totally right.
| [deleted]
| lapetitejort wrote:
| Might be faster to link to the Wikipedia page [0]. As an American
| some names that stick out to me are Sinclair Lewis and Ludwig
| Wittgenstein.
|
| [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_in_public_domain
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| Winnie-the-Pooh !
| fnord77 wrote:
| > All sheet music published in 1926 enters the public domain
|
| from the linked wikipedia article
| karaterobot wrote:
| Does any site collect a list of works created based on works
| which have recently entered the public domain? The one that comes
| to mind is last year's movie _The Invisible Man_ (and here I am
| assuming they would have had to negotiate with the Wells estate
| prior to 2017). But, I 'd like to see a more complete list of
| examples.
| PowerfulWizard wrote:
| For those of us who are helplessly impatient, run this in
| console: document.querySelectorAll(".countdown-
| calendar__door").forEach(e => e.classList.add("will-open"))
| Arainach wrote:
| Is THAT what's going on? What an awful, miserable, hostile
| website.
|
| Please stop trying to do silly Javascript tricks and just give
| me text and pictures.
| imachine1980_ wrote:
| Won't somebody please think of the engagement
| croddin wrote:
| Then this to show all of the titles
| document.querySelectorAll(".door-front").forEach(e=>e.remove())
| dheera wrote:
| I love this, and wish there were a community browser that
| auto-offers the most popular JS hacks to fix UX. Similar this
| can be done for JS paywalls and to get rid of annoying
| newsletter and GDPR boxes without agreeing to them.
| mdaniel wrote:
| That's the problem ViolentMonkey and sites like
| https://greasyfork.org/ are trying to fix but as with many
| "community contributions" the quality is all over the place
| keithnz wrote:
| I mainly use ViolentMonkey for my own scripts
| mdaniel wrote:
| As do I. I've never published anything on any community
| userscript website mostly because I am scratching my own
| itch(es) and find it suspicious that anyone else would
| have the same itch and yet want it solved in exactly the
| same way
| keithnz wrote:
| it's super underrated I think, I customize sites quite
| regularly now to fix things that annoy me! Either to
| remove things, or to modify content so it takes advantage
| of a big monitor
| mdaniel wrote:
| > or to modify content so it takes advantage of a big
| monitor
|
| here's looking at you, GitHub diff div
| document.querySelector(".application-main .container-
| xl").style.maxWidth="100%"
|
| /me shakes his fist
| aftbit wrote:
| Here's all of the titles:
|
| Arnold Schoenberg
|
| W. B. Yeats' Estrangement
|
| Vladimir Nabokov's Mary
|
| Sinclair Lewis
|
| A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh
|
| Faust directed by F. W. Murnau
|
| Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
|
| D. H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent
|
| Igor Stravinsky
|
| Don Juan directed by Alan Crosland
|
| Louis Armstrong
|
| Battling Butler directed by Buster Keaton
|
| Diane Arbus
|
| Oscar Micheaux
|
| William Faulkner's Soldiers' Pay
|
| Dorothy Parker's Enough Rope
|
| Zora Neale Hurston's Color Struck
|
| Jim Morrison
|
| Arthur Conan Doyle's The Land of Mist
|
| Stevie Smith
|
| Ivor Novello
|
| Miyamoto Yuriko
|
| T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom
|
| Sound recordings published prior to 1923
|
| The Scarlet Letter directed by Victor Sjostrom
|
| Franz Kafka's The Castle
|
| Ludwig Wittgenstein
|
| Vita Sackville-West's The Land
|
| Andre Gide
|
| Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man
|
| Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
|
| $$('.door-interior
| span.title').map(x=>x.textContent).join("\n")
| djxfade wrote:
| Oh great! I have been looking forward to $$('.door-interior
| span.title').map(x=>x.textContent).join("\n")
| moffkalast wrote:
| The only title on the list I recognize, such a timeless
| classic.
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2021-12-02 23:00 UTC)