[HN Gopher] What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?
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       What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2024-12-01 20:17 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (publicdomainreview.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (publicdomainreview.org)
        
       | Amorymeltzer wrote:
       | It's advent calendar-style, so
       | <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_in_public_domain> might be
       | more informative.
        
       | aaronbrethorst wrote:
       | I, for one, am looking forward to _A Farewell to Arms and
       | Zombies_ , inevitably coming out soon.
        
         | gweinberg wrote:
         | I guess putting a book on a trash can to trap your possessed
         | severed hand is considered fair use.
        
       | cle wrote:
       | Here's the full list, base64-encoded (since HN doesn't support
       | spoilers...)                   QSBSb29tIG9mIE9uZSdzIE93biBieSBWaX
       | JnaW5pYSBXb29sZgpUaGUgTWFuIFdpdGhpbiBieSBHcmFoYW0gR3JlZW5lCkhlbnJ
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         | zamadatix wrote:
         | For those on the lazy side: A pastebin link option
         | 
         | https://pastebin.com/raw/9wfPfzT3
        
           | saghm wrote:
           | At the risk of the above comment being edited and making this
           | stop working, here's an alternative lazy version:
           | curl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42291112 | grep
           | 'QSBSb[^<]\+' -o | base64 --decode
        
         | arealaccount wrote:
         | Surprised Gandhi is on that list, was he generally someone
         | known to assert his intellectual property rights?
        
         | doublerabbit wrote:
         | And if you can't read base64, a base16 encoded version below.
         | 4120526F6F6D206F66204F6E652773204F776E2062792056697267696E69612
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       | GeneticGenesis wrote:
       | I know it's not public domain per-say, but for me, the thing
       | that's most exciting is that in 2025, the last remaining patents
       | on the h.264 (AVC) video codec will expire [1].
       | 
       | Now if only HEVC wasn't such a hot patent / licensing mess.
       | 
       | [1]
       | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M...
        
       | swyx wrote:
       | handpicked selection of notables:
       | 
       | - Frida Kahlo
       | 
       | - Henri Matisse
       | 
       | - Alan Turing
       | 
       | i guess the Chrysler Building is public domain now? what can you
       | do with a buidling?
        
         | diggan wrote:
         | > i guess the Chrysler Building is public domain now? what can
         | you do with a buidling?
         | 
         | I guess maybe the design of the building, if anything? If that
         | will become public domain, expect it to appear in Macau in a
         | year or less, and probably other places :)
        
       | timpark wrote:
       | In May 1998, before the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
       | went into effect, there was an amusing Tom the Dancing Bug comic
       | regarding characters falling out of copyright.
       | https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/1998/05/17
       | 
       | In that vein, similar to the Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh
       | horror movies that have been released in recent years, Popeye
       | will be entering the public domain next year and people are
       | working on a horror movie based on that.
        
         | saghm wrote:
         | Even as someone who isn't really into horror much as a genre,
         | it's hard not to appreciate how one of the first instincts we
         | have as a society when freeing some IP is "We should make a
         | creepy version of this!".
        
           | Swizec wrote:
           | > it's hard not to appreciate how one of the first instincts
           | we have as a society when freeing some IP is "We should make
           | a creepy version of this!"
           | 
           | Almost certainly rule 34 happens first and just gets less
           | attention in public. There were "bear" posters of Pooh all
           | over SOMA (in SF) almost immediately after the copyright
           | ended.
        
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