[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)