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!
@iffybooks I am not convinced abolishing copyright completely without other systemic changes would not be a cure that is worse than the disease.
What copyright *does* enable is copyleft licenses (like CC By-SA, or AGPL), and these proved to be a powerful tool in building a commons (be it cultural or code-related) that makes it very difficult for corporate rights hoggers to appropriate it.
And appropriate it they will whenever they get the chance.
@iffybooks but we absolutely do need to reform copyright dramatically.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Iffy Books