When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, works of art & culture from 1928 will enter the public domain in the US, meaning they can be remixed & reused in new creative works. And 1928 was a big year, thanks to a famous mouse... Join our celebrations: blog.archive.org/2023/12/05/w...
IT BEGINS
the “register now” link takes me to a page where there is no option to register??
Copyright is over a hundred years? How the hell did Disney get away with fucking up copyright law so badly?
Thank you for the material I used when I put this video together! youtu.be/En8KJHZltjw?...
Are there going to be three hours where Steamboat Willie is public domain on the east coast but not in California?
🍻 Free culture!
Oh neat, Call of Cthulhu goes into the public domain too. New League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, when?
Great.
The only downside is that people without any creativity are just going to take the mouse and make him evil, which in turn proves to companies that having a death grip on the public domain is the only way for characters to be innocent.
Hooray!