#scotus skroowed the pooch on this case. They missed a golden opportunity to rule that the Berne Copyright Convention is incompatible with the US Constitution, and that, as directed by the #constitution , #copyright in the US is currently unconstitutional and should expire after 28 years.
#Copyright was intended to last for a limited time, not to provide a continuing income stream for creators, and certainly not for the #heirs and #estates.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/05/justices-rule-against-andy-warhol-estate-in-copyright-dispute/
#copyrights #copyrightlaw #archivist #scotusblog #fairuse #fairuseweek #fairusedoctrine #publicdomain #PublicDomainDayCountdown #publicdomainday #publicdomainday #publicdomainday2023 #libraryofcongress
Thursday’s decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith provides a major statement in the role that copyright law plays in fostering artistic creativity, as the court upheld the claim of a famed celebrity photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, that the Andy Warhol estate infringed her
My entry for the #1927gamejam is live over on itch.io - I’m really excited by how it came out… though I have no friends, so it hasn’t been play-tested yet. ;-)
Take a gander, maybe print it out & give it a play, and while you’re over there: there’s still time to build something cool and enter it in the jam!
Meemoo, de Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (KBR) en Wikimedia België organiseren op 15 februari a.s. weer samen de jaarlijkse Publiekdomeindag. Benieuwd naar de acties die verschillende instellingen voor cultureel erfgoed in 2022 ondernamen om hun publiekdomeincollecties toegankelijk te maken? Schrijf je dan snel in.
#Publiekdomeindag #Publiekdomeindag2023 #publiekdomein #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomainDay2023 #publicdomain
https://meemoo.be/nl/vormingen-en-events/publiekdomeindag-2023
#Laurel and #Hardy - The Battle of the Century (1927) - The Pie Fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHY5SM0YFv0
Funktioniert immer noch. ;-)
January first is (US) #PublicDomainDay2023! Every year thousands of works become public domain, to the chagrin of some (see Disney, Mickey) and the delight of others. What is now public domain? Check out the list
https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/01/public-domain-day-2023
Today the number #8 was released to public domain by the octopus community.
Patrick
First Dread Pirate Roberts
TJJohn12
Patrick Vanhoucke
fetopa (Großhirn an Kleinhirn)
mark_e_evans
micah
Chris @ 🦣
