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!
...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.
@toxtethogrady @FediThing @rysiek
They've been coming up short for years! look at all the shitty remakes and 'sequels'. Do we really need another remake/sequel of Home Alone?
This isn't 'retelling the stories of oour culture', this is recycling shit content because they still have the copyright, and a brand new audience every generation.
@sparseMatrix imagine the explosion of creativity if all Disney content got put in the Public Domain today.
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Porn? You guys have lost me lol
@toxtethogrady @BillySmith @rysiek @FediThing
Wait that's going to require a substantial amount of lubrication, I'm not sure the supply lines are up to that kind of demand rn
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