Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Jan 2, 2023

If you're excited that things are entering the #PublicDomain — which you should be! — perhaps it's worth considering reforming copyright.

In many places currently it's 70 years after the death of the author, or longer. This is insanity.

An important piece of culture made by a young author could be locked behind copyright (with rights usually held by publishers, not authors themselves anyway) for over a *century*.

That's how you get #Disney to own almost everything.

Reform #copyright!

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...and Disney of course used lots of public domain material while at the same time trying to extend copyright indefinitely on its own creations.

Cinderella, Aladdin, Snow White, Little Mermaid, The Jungle Book, Beauty & The Beast, Alice In Wonderland, Pocahontas, Frozen (based on the Ice Queen), Mulan, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood etc etc etc were all PD, but Disney has done everything it can to try to stop cartoons they made almost 100 years ago become PD themselves.

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@FediThing @rysiek not to mention the amounts of infringements they settled quietly, or just because "you don't face such a Goliath for a copyright infringement"
Jan 2, 2023 at 1:15pmWeb