What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? 331
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain about items that would enter the public domain starting on January 1, 2010, if not for copyright extenions: "'Casino Royale, Marilyn Monroe's Playboy cover, The Adventures of Augie March, the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Crick & Watson's Nature article decoding the double helix, Disney's Peter Pan, The Crucible'... 'How ironic that Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, with its book burning firemen, was published in 1953 and would once have been entering the public domain on January 1, 2010. To quote James Boyle, "Bradbury's firemen at least set fire to their own culture out of deep ideological commitment, vile though it may have been. We have set fire to our cultural record for no reason; even if we had wanted retrospectively to enrich the tiny number of beneficiaries whose work keeps commercial value beyond 56 years, we could have done so without these effects. The ironies are almost too painful to contemplate.""
Re:Offensive (Score:3, Funny)
Glad to see you are offended. You might check out some early feminist literature - I refer specifically to a book called "The Woman Who Did". After reading this you will understand why nobody is interested in feminist literature before about 1960 or so. Depressing and whacked-out come to mind to describe this early version of the genre.
Re:Immoral is what it is (Score:4, Funny)
I thought it was an "I Got Yew" tree.
Re:Immoral is what it is (Score:5, Funny)
No one cares about the U.S. Constitution any more... it fell out of copyright.
Re:Immoral is what it is (Score:1, Funny)
who cares about their bullshit 'laws', just upload the fuckers to piratebay.
Re:Offensive (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Steamboat Willie Event Horizon (Score:3, Funny)
Mickey Mouse will never enter the public domain.
Steamboat Willie is eight minutes of silent era sight gags with a synchronized audio track.
Nitrate stock.
Phonographic disk with mechanical synchronization. That's a problem for MoMA and The Library of Congress.
Entry into the public domain doesn't mean you have legal or physical access to primary sources.
It doesn't fund conservation. Restoration.
The Disney archives remain intact not only because the studio values its history - and not only because it uses these resources to recruit and train new talent.
The archives remain intact because they are self-supporting. Disney's shorts, features and television productions still have commercial value.
Re:Congress is Working Well (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder if anyone who listens to talk radio would realize that your post was satirical.
It sounds exactly like something a certain radio host who was rushed to the hospital yesterday with "chest pains" from an oxycontin overdose would say.
Re:Cool (Score:1, Funny)