#scotus skroowed the pooch on this case. They missed a golden opportunity to rule that the Berne Copyright Convention is incompatible with the US Constitition, and that, as directed by the #constitution , #copyright in the US is currently unconstitutional and should expire after 28 years.

#Copyright was intended to last for a limited time, not to provide a continuing income stream for creators, and certainly not for the #heirs and #estates.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/05/justices-rule-against-andy-warhol-estate-in-copyright-dispute/

#copyrights #copyrightlaw #archivist #scotusblog #fairuse #fairuseweek #fairusedoctrine #publicdomain #PublicDomainDayCountdown #publicdomainday #publicdomainday #publicdomainday2023 #libraryofcongress

My entry for the #1927gamejam is live over on itch.io - I’m really excited by how it came out… though I have no friends, so it hasn’t been play-tested yet. ;-)

Take a gander, maybe print it out & give it a play, and while you’re over there: there’s still time to build something cool and enter it in the jam!

#mastoart #cardgame #gamejam #publicdomainday2023

https://tjjohn12.itch.io/trompe-loeil

My entry for the #1927gamejam is live over on itch.io - I’m really excited by how it came out… though I have no friends, so it hasn’t been play-tested yet. ;-)

Take a gander, maybe print it out & give it a play, and while you’re over there: there’s still time to build something cool and enter it in the jam!

#mastoart #cardgame #gamejam #publicdomainday2023

https://tjjohn12.itch.io/trompe-loeil

Meemoo, de Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (KBR) en Wikimedia België organiseren op 15 februari a.s. weer samen de jaarlijkse Publiekdomeindag. Benieuwd naar de acties die verschillende instellingen voor cultureel erfgoed in 2022 ondernamen om hun publiekdomeincollecties toegankelijk te maken? Schrijf je dan snel in.

#Publiekdomeindag #Publiekdomeindag2023 #publiekdomein #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomainDay2023 #publicdomain

https://meemoo.be/nl/vormingen-en-events/publiekdomeindag-2023

#Laurel and #Hardy - The Battle of the Century (1927) - The Pie Fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHY5SM0YFv0

Funktioniert immer noch. ;-)

#PublicDomain
#PublicDomainDay2023

January first is (US) #PublicDomainDay2023! Every year thousands of works become public domain, to the chagrin of some (see Disney, Mickey) and the delight of others. What is now public domain? Check out the list

https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/01/public-domain-day-2023

Today the number #8 was released to public domain by the octopus community.

#PublicDomainDay2023

"The Velocitudinous Hedgehog" #PublicDomainDay2023

"The Haarlem Excursionists' Ball" #PublicDomainDay2023

"The Gritty Sportsman" #PublicDomainDay2023

In honor of Sherlock Holmes joining the public domain, a thread of possible books.

First, "The Lost Kingdom of Lemuria" #PublicDomainDay2023

Robert Berkeley "Bob" Minor (15 July 1884 – 26 January 1952)

... entered the public domain.

Finally a cartoon like the one with Trump isn't a copyright violation.

Minor created a timeless work, which apparently transforms as here in Kevin Siers political cartoon mustering AGs to get away with his criming.

#publicDomainDay #publicDomain #publicDomainDay2023 #RobertMinor

Hey kids, happy #PublicDomainDay2023!

H. T. Webster has entered the public domain.

#publicDomainDay2023 #publicDomain #publicDomainDay #HTWebster #Cartoonist

Harold Tucker Webster (September 21, 1885 – September 22, 1952) American cartoonist known for The Timid Soul, Bridge, Life's Darkest Moments

More here: https://www.polygon.com/entertainment/23527444/public-domain-2023-sherlock-holmes-metropolis

#PublicDomainDay2023

It’s Public Domain Day 2023 and lots of interesting works from 1927 are entering the public domain. Newly PD films I’d recommend are Metropolis (Fritz Lang), Wings (William A. Wellman) and Sunrise (F.W. Murnau). Archive.org is a good place to find them, e.g. https://archive.org/details/metropolis.1927.fritz-lang

#PDD #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomainDay2023 #archivedotorg #HappyNewYear

Movies and books entering public domain today #PublicDomainDay2023 #PublicDomain
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's last Sherlock Holmes book to enter public domain in #2023
#publicdomainday2023
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/12/30/public-domain-2023-works-include-sherlock-holmes-alfred-hitchcock/10970440002/

"Wie an jedem Neujahrstag feiert Wikimedia Deutschland gemeinsam mit Wissens-Aktiven weltweit auch heute den Tag der Gemeinfreiheit. Denn immer mit diesem Datum endet der urheberrechtliche Schutz derjenigen Werke, deren Urheber*innen siebzig Jahre zuvor gestorben sind – heute also von Personen aus Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft, die bis 1952 lebten." #publicdomainday2023
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2023/01/01/public-domain-day/

"The Library of Congress can now authoritatively report that the loss of American silent-era feature films constitutes an alarming and irretrievable loss to our nation’s cultural record. […] we and future generations have already lost 75% of the creative record from the era"

It's entirely possible that copyright trolling has destroyed part of the cultural record, and without the 1998 extension these films may not have been lost.

#PublicDomainDay2023 #PublicDomain