[HN Gopher] Public Domain Day 2026
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Public Domain Day 2026
Author : rolph
Score : 102 points
Date : 2025-12-27 22:15 UTC (1 days ago)
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| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Related:
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| _What will enter the public domain in 2026?_
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117112
| snvzz wrote:
| Imagine how much better the world would be if the copyright term
| was shorter and/or if past a certain point, registration (and
| payment of fee) was needed to renew copyright and use the full
| term.
| aqme28 wrote:
| "Or" would be terrible. Every work that's particularly
| interesting would just be kept in copyright forever by the
| estate or corporate overlords.
| kec wrote:
| Not if total duration was limited to some small number of re-
| ups (or the fee ramped up at some greater than linear rate)
| 63 wrote:
| Imagine all the incredible fan works that could spark careers
| and businesses if e.g. the original star wars trilogy were
| public domain, or how many indie dev studios could get started
| by riffing on pokemon. But alas, fans of both franchises
| continue to make works but can't profit from them and need to
| pray that Disney and Nintendo won't send lawyers after them if
| they get popular
| pennomi wrote:
| Fan works of Star Wars have long been as good or better than
| the official releases. The world would be a much richer place
| if anyone was free to create whatever they wanted.
| whycome wrote:
| Who would the fee go to? Copyright should be for the consumer.
| I should be able to modify the works of my own lifetime.
| herewulf wrote:
| Imagine simply owning your digital music, video, and game
| purchases in your own lifetime.
| falcor84 wrote:
| I've been imagining even just having legal access to the
| Spotify (or similar) API to legally stream music, so I
| could pay the rights holders without having to deal with
| these annoying interfaces. Can I not have that? I'm even
| willing to use an sdk with a drm blob if I have to.
| mjevans wrote:
| DRM is on my no list. I want my operating system to
| respect my freedoms and privacy.
|
| I'm barely willing to tolerate Steam's default DRM a
| little. Those are 'just games' and that particular
| version doesn't try very hard, plus the rest of the
| package (network effect, servers, and a strongly customer
| friendly brand) combine to balance out the negatives. I'm
| generally hopeful that as things become classic Steam
| will either continue to maintain the access servers or
| release versions that work properly without them.
|
| For static media, just give me a reasonable way to pay a
| reasonable fee for the use license and place to get an
| unencumbered official high fidelity copy to enjoy.
|
| Paraphrased: 'Copyright infringement indicates a customer
| service failure.' At least with respect to anyone who'd
| have considered the purchase in the first place.
| herewulf wrote:
| In an equitable world, LLMs would only provide answers from
| <=1930 data (as of 1 January).
|
| Yet another argument for copyright being far too long.
| falcor84 wrote:
| Well, there's a massive amount of public domain and creative
| commons content being released all the time; we don't need to
| wait for copyrighted works.
| 2ICofafireteam wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319826
| tzury wrote:
| I suggest looking at the https://publicdomainreview.org/ for a
| more comprehensive listings,
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| and this one for books:
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| https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
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