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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 17:56
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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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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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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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Fixed the dead link to Metropolis in the OP.
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Jan 11, 2023 19:09
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