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!
It's infuriating. How much art have we lost *because* it was not allowed to be preserved for posterity due to corporate copyright gobblers.
even with fairly recent TV programmes made in 90s and 00s aimed at youth audiences in Europe, particularly those featuring pop music any archives are often deliberately wiped (or not even kept in the first place) despite tech being able to preserve them due to the risk of copyright lawsuits. Worse still, a lot of producers of 90s rave music sold out to major labels (at least here in UK) so stuff constantly disappears from YouTube etc..
@MachineGrrrl I wondered why I saw very little archive stuff from MTV Europe. Was the archive that burned in UK, PL or USA when it happened? I've only heard about archive stores in USA burning, but I read a lot of "999/112 news from UK/Europe and don't recall any news reports about any incidents in UK/Europe (but they could I guess just have been reported as a "normal" fire in business premises)
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Machine Grrrl
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