[HN Gopher] Happy Public Domain Day
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Happy Public Domain Day
Author : sacrosanct
Score : 70 points
Date : 2024-01-01 16:57 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| sjfjsjdjwvwvc wrote:
| Copyright is broken and needs drastic changes.
|
| It is not fulfilling its purpose for a long time now and is
| holding back humanity as a whole.
| rstupek wrote:
| I'm curious how copyright is holding back humanity?
| 1letterunixname wrote:
| It prevents archival, reproduction, and examination of
| interesting legacy works before they and their contemporary
| supporting materials disappear.
| sjfjsjdjwvwvc wrote:
| Learning materials are under lock and key and people need
| education. We desperately need more and better scientists yet
| publishing houses hold them hostage.
|
| Hundreds of thousands of lives are being wasted working on
| the legal systems in place to protect a few huge companies
| profits.
|
| And that is just from the top of my head.
| 1letterunixname wrote:
| 100, author+50, or author+70 years is absolutely absurd rent-
| seeking corporate greed that subsumed the protections of
| individual creators because of damn corporate personhood.
| Copyright should exist for a period of 2x "life sentence" used
| by Scandinavian criminal courts: 42 years. No extensions, no
| exceptions.
| shmerl wrote:
| For sure. The term should be rolled back to sane levels.
| Breaking DRM should not be banned and so on.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _2024 's public domain is a banger_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833881 - Jan 2024 (27
| comments)
|
| _Disney 's earliest Mickey Mouse enters public domain as US
| copyright expires_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830264 - Jan 2024 (162
| comments)
|
| _January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38823973 - Dec 2023 (15
| comments)
|
| _Copyright for original Mickey Mouse persona to run out 1
| January 2024_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799484 -
| Dec 2023 (10 comments)
|
| _Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain: "It's Finally Happening'"_
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38737164 - Dec 2023 (7
| comments)
|
| _Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle_
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38678021 - Dec 2023 (208
| comments)
|
| _Public Domain Day 2024 Is Coming: Here 's What to Know_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38586978 - Dec 2023 (6
| comments)
|
| _The Mickey Mouse Copyright Runs Out in 2024_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36559037 - July 2023 (64
| comments)
| fuzztester wrote:
| There is also System Administrator Appreciation Day. There was a
| good post on some site, some years ago, about the many ways in
| which they quietly go about their work, which is so essential to
| much of modern life, not just to software organisations, but
| still remain under-appreciated or even not understood.
| Duanemclemore wrote:
| In personal news, all my Mickey / Steamboat Willie slashfic is
| finally legal!
| blacksqr wrote:
| Regrettably, thanks to the international nature of the internet,
| it may still be legally hazardous to make works in the public
| domain in one's own country available on the internet.
|
| The legal question of whether putting something on an internet
| server constitutes publication in all countries simultaneously or
| just in the country where the server exists is still unsettled.
| So for example a UK citizen may wish to put Tolkien's works on
| the internet now that they are in the public domain there, but
| Tolkien's estate might decide to sue from the United States, or
| from many countries in Europe. Individuals and small entities are
| likely unwilling to bear the legal risk.
|
| So the effective public domain date, from the viewpoint of the
| internet, is set by the countries with the longest protection
| terms, which appear to be Spain (80 years) and the US (95 years
| for works made for hire).
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