@duncanlock I never understood the desire to hide media & make it rare combined with the simultaneous desire to create media for mass consumption. Like it's too good to even be seen? Only the right sort of people are allowed to consume this content? Preposterous.

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Yes. At the end of their sentences, inmates don't "fall into" freedom.

@duncanlock but only if they are preserved long enough

@duncanlock Without researching it, my hypothesis is that “fall into the public domain” became a colloquially used phrase somewhere around the ‘60s-‘70s when huge swaths of feature films and shorts entered the public domain because the studios that originally produced them sold their libraries off to small TV distributors who botched things either by failing to renew at 28 years or leaving out the proper copyright information when creating new title cards as mandated by the sale.

@duncanlock yea, verily! flippin A!

@duncanlock … or they don't because the editor made sure nobody could use it anymore. In which case, why would they get the protection under copyright in the first place?

@duncanlock Apotheosis!

@duncanlock "promoted to glory" as the salvos would have it.

@duncanlock That is true in the United States and some European countries. But Germany has no "public domain" concept. So being sure that an actual license is in place on every piece of creative work is vital to define what happens as time, authors, and other related things go away.