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Public Domain Day happens every January when works that are at least 95 years old (in the United States, at least) lapse into the public domain because their copyright status finally expires. Post cool works that lapsed into the public domain in 2023 (or any year, really!) and celebrate the joy of not getting sued by someone because we all own a little piece of it now! Hell to the motherfuckin’ yeah Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is one hell of an iconic, groundbreaking and gorgeous movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_4no842TX8 A song that inspired some dude named after Mexican food to remake as a synth-pop song in 1982 (Irving Berlin was still alive in 1982  ):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNbnJd5gm8o And while not falling into public domain this year, Night of the Living Dead is a touchstone of modern horror and zombie flicks that followed. It fell into the public domain immediately upon release because the distributor forgot to put a copyright notice on the film. Whoops!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXFuvmfuVgY You Are A Werewolf fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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Jan 8, 2023 17:58
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I would like to know more about these 95 year old pubic domains .
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Jan 8, 2023 18:23
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Not posting Steamboat Willie because I don't support abusing farm animals for music.
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Jan 8, 2023 19:10
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Can we post about how Disney is awful and has hosed things up for everyone?
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Jan 8, 2023 19:14
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metropolis is sick, i like it when the robot dances
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Jan 8, 2023 19:56
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Waltzing Along posted:Can we post about how Disney is awful and has hosed things up for everyone? It would be wrong not to.
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Jan 8, 2023 20:07
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Waltzing Along posted:Can we post about how Disney is awful and has hosed things up for everyone? Go hog wild. I know public domain status was originally 70 years, but Disney kept lobbying to extend Mickey Mouse’s status and copyright in general and now here we are. They better act fast because “Plane Crazy” and “Steamboat Willie” lapse next year  But yes, Disney does suck poo poo and I hope the U.S Copyright Office finally tells them to go suck a gently caress. You Are A Werewolf fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jan 8, 2023 |
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Jan 8, 2023 20:09
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R.L. Stine posted:metropolis is sick, i like it when the robot dances Hell yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be955EMr13o
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Jan 8, 2023 20:22
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Most people who keep track over Public Domain (or at least Public Domain's mist vocal ememies) know that this year marks the last gasp of legal ground to stand on, from the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate, as "The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes", ACD's last set of Sherlock Holmes stories, enters American Public domain this year, which means that the entirety of the great detectives adventures are now beyond the reach of copyright litigation. Cheers! 
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Jan 8, 2023 21:15
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Not posting Steamboat Willie because I don't support abusing farm animals for music. That's not until next year anyway, assuming Disney is in any financial state to lobby copyright fuckery with how much their stock's dropped lately.
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Jan 8, 2023 21:32
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super sweet best pal posted:That's not until next year anyway, assuming Disney is in any financial state to lobby copyright fuckery with how much their stock's dropped lately. They will spend billions if need be to keep Mickey out of the public domain.
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Jan 8, 2023 21:36
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they better not, i want to sell all these extremely pornographic steamboat willy t-shirts i've had made
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Jan 8, 2023 21:46
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Nosferatu is goony as gently caress. But the version of it I had bookmarked now ironically brings up... You Are A Elf posted:I know public domain status was originally 70 years, but Disney kept lobbying to extend Mickey Mouse’s status and copyright in general and now here we are.
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Jan 8, 2023 22:28
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Stonehouse Beach posted:Nosferatu is goony as gently caress. But the version of it I had bookmarked now ironically brings up... This version is the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iSolYGvLrE Monathin posted:Most people who keep track over Public Domain (or at least Public Domain's mist vocal ememies) know that this year marks the last gasp of legal ground to stand on, from the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate, as "The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes", ACD's last set of Sherlock Holmes stories, enters American Public domain this year, which means that the entirety of the great detectives adventures are now beyond the reach of copyright litigation. Cheers! Hell yeah
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Jan 8, 2023 23:26
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Waltzing Along posted:They will spend billions if need be to keep Mickey out of the public domain. In one of those "right for the wrong reasons" situations, Republicans said they won't stop Steamboat Willie from entering the public domain.
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Jan 11, 2023 08:13
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 Lol  Lmao
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Jan 11, 2023 08:20
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Dick Fontaine posted:
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You Are A Elf posted:Hell to the motherfuckin’ yeah Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is one hell of an iconic, groundbreaking and gorgeous movie: Video unavailable This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Stiftung that is one hell of a German name
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Jan 11, 2023 10:50
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You Are A Elf posted:And while not falling into public domain this year, Night of the Living Dead is a touchstone of modern horror and zombie flicks that followed. It fell into the public domain immediately upon release because the distributor forgot to put a copyright notice on the film. Whoops!: Lol, wtf. I had no idea Night of the Living Dead was hilariously in public domain by accident. That's a ridiculous oversight. That's a good movie that basically invented the zombie genre, and they just basically accidentally gave it away for free Probably explains why the movie had such widespread distribution though, if it was free and all HJE-Cobra fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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Jan 11, 2023 11:26
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HJE-Cobra posted:Lol, wtf. I had no idea Night of the Living Dead was hilariously in public domain by accident. That's a ridiculous oversight. That's a good movie that basically invented the zombie genre, and they just basically accidentally gave it away for free Charade starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant suffered a similar fate as Universal Studios forgot to put a © symbol or the word “copyright” before the year on the notice at the end, so it also fell into public domain immediately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uc86VH8hdA And lol at that Metropolis video going down. The most German name.
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Jan 11, 2023 14:03
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Dick Fontaine posted:
Those might be legit claims since they have new soundtracks. As long as the person claiming it has the right to the soundtrack.
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Jan 11, 2023 14:27
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Schweinhund posted:Those might be legit claims since they have new soundtracks. As long as the person claiming it has the right to the soundtrack. This does bring up an interesting question as to how public domain/copyright works with different types of revisions. Like in Metropolis' case there's fuckery with the soundtrack including some very recent variations, colorized versions...and I think even something like a 4K remaster would qualify (so you couldn't distribute a version done from a remastered version). Japan is extra-weird because movies from before I think 1953 are all legally considered public domain so bootlegs of these older films are prevalent but they are all very clearly bootlegs, so lovely transfers, often have things like opening/closing credits removed etc.
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Jan 11, 2023 14:33
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Some incredible av material in there
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Jan 11, 2023 14:39
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Edward Mass posted:In one of those "right for the wrong reasons" situations, Republicans said they won't stop Steamboat Willie from entering the public domain. They head my infowars segment about Disney turning all the frickin mice gay
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Jan 11, 2023 16:49
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Star Wars is now public domain.
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Jan 11, 2023 17:18
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You Are A Elf posted:Go hog wild. I know public domain status was originally 70 years, but Disney kept lobbying to extend Mickey Mouse’s status and copyright in general and now here we are. I think Disney has stopped giving a gently caress about Mickey Mouse now that they have Marvel and Star Wars stuff to churn out forever. Also, they can still use their trademark to gently caress people over since those last forever.
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Jan 11, 2023 17:41
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you might wonder what music is in the public domain. well keep wondering lol because its such a mess of state laws that you need to hire a lawyer, and even then, its really just an opinion. as a rule of thumb, if it was recorded onto a wax cylinder, you're probably good. if it was recorded onto a shellac disc, maybe its public domain, but be careful. anything vinyl, absolutely not
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Jan 11, 2023 18:24
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You Are A Elf posted:Hell to the motherfuckin’ yeah Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is one hell of an iconic, groundbreaking and gorgeous movie: This link doesn't work, but it's an awesome movie. It's amazing how much of modern cyberpunk is in there completely unchanged in terms of both themes and imagery. It's got the towering buildings all lit up, with traffic and even flying traffic everywhere; it's got the impoverished workers struggling against a separated and uncaring upper class; it's even got android infiltrators. The one thing that does look funnily anachronistic is the scientist's lab looks like some sort of Frankenstein dungeon when now days they would make it a clean corporate lab full of specialists. Nice Van My Man fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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Jan 11, 2023 18:39
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your grandma is a public domain!
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Jan 11, 2023 18:46
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I don't respect the law. Respect is earned.
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Jan 11, 2023 19:03
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kntfkr posted:I don't respect the law. Respect is earned.
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Jan 11, 2023 19:04
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Fixed the dead link to Metropolis in the OP.
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Jan 11, 2023 19:09
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eSports Chaebol posted:you might wonder what music is in the public domain. well keep wondering lol because its such a mess of state laws that you need to hire a lawyer, and even then, its really just an opinion. as a rule of thumb, if it was recorded onto a wax cylinder, you're probably good. if it was recorded onto a shellac disc, maybe its public domain, but be careful. anything vinyl, absolutely not Isn't it some period of time after the artist dies? That might be some other country though, I can't remember
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Jan 11, 2023 20:28
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I can't wait for Steamboat Willie to enter public domain next year so we can meme about moeny hungry corpos
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Jan 11, 2023 20:41
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Dixville posted:Isn't it some period of time after the artist dies? That might be some other country though, I can't remember for literary works and films and almost everything yes, and the timers started applying retroactively after the U.S. signed the Berne convention in 1988, (over a hundred years late). But it didn’t apply to pre-existing audio recordings and so it’s a big mess
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Jan 11, 2023 21:33
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me r/n: 
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Jan 11, 2023 21:42
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Junk posted:me r/n: DU DU HAST DU HAST MICH
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Jan 11, 2023 22:02
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All Metallica and Taylor Swift albums have entered the public domain as of last week so feel free to download, share, sell them as you see fit.
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Junk posted:me r/n: Oh man the second one from the left in the back reminds me of 
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