Public Domain Day 2023

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Wow wee! No one bothered to make a thread celebrating the works that are now in the public domain. Anything made in 1927 is now free to use at least in the USA.
Here's a list of the highlights:
Early Oswald The Lucky Rabbit shorts
Metropolis (the movie)
Wings (The first Oscar winning Best Picture movie)
The last Sherlock Holmes novel marking the Doyle's estate complete demise
The Jazz Singer
The first three Hardy Boys books
The full Ice Cream, You Scream song
Sunrise
Buster Keaton's College
London After Midnight, maybe this year we'll have some collector finally unearth the movie because the excuse that it's copyrighted won't work anymore.

For you European users, or creators who are now 70 years long gone, you can now use the following:
Casablanca
Maya The Bee (Congratulations Germans, now go jack off to girls shitting you insane pieces of shit.)
 
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George Romero's OG zombie apocalypse "Night of the Living Dead" was instantly public domain upon its release in 1968. This is the fault of the distributor, who forgot to put the required copyright notice on the theatrical prints after the film's title was changed from its original title Night of the Flesh Eaters. Whoops.
 
ToroidalBoat dijo:
DeviantArt users can hold a fanatical - and inaccurate - pro-copyright view.
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Should I link the retard's Status on this?

He even has a delusional idea about merging several websites together into a mega-conglomerate and making long-lost European cartoons mainstream again, despite such channels existing and lost media channels and the Lost Media Wikia being things. I should also mention that company mergers seems to be a hyperfixation besides roleplaying diaperplay.
Retard's thoughts on Sherlock Holmes being Public Domain
 
ToroidalBoat dijo:
Stuff like that is part of why I'm skeptical of the claim that autism is "neurodiversity" instead of disability.
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Oh, it gets better!
He even compares the abuse the LGBTQ community has to his diaper roleplays. I'm not joking. He even is unaware that disabled people are capable of having career and jobs.

I'll have to stop as this is derailing the thread.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye dijo:
If the estate doesn't try suing people under some fresh legal theory, how many shitty adaptations of Sherlock Holmes are we about to see?

Also, it's interesting that humanity has a better copy of Manos: The Hands of Fate than Metropolis.

It seems like Wikipedia jumped the gun on Buster Keaton's College and nobody noticed. I'm not sure:

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Manos is a more recent production than Metropolis, so having a better work print is logically sound.

Wasn't Metropolis public domain anyway?
 
London After Midnight, maybe this year we'll have some collector finally unearth the movie because the excuse that it's copyrighted won't work anymore.
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I wish. Greed was put into PD a few years ago and no one's done shit with it. :/
 
It's so nice that stories and films from ninety-six years ago are finally in the public domain. Perhaps I'll be alive in 2080 or so when Super Mario Bros. and friends enter, unless the law is changed again, of course.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid dijo:
Manos is a more recent production than Metropolis, so having a better work print is logically sound.

Wasn't Metropolis public domain anyway?
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It's completely logical, just nutty that it happened. In a different timeline Manos would have been lost and forgotten.
The American copyright for Metropolis lapsed in 1953, which led to a proliferation of versions being released on video. Along with other foreign-made works, the film's U.S. copyright was restored in 1996 by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act; the constitutionality of this copyright extension was challenged, but was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012's Golan v. Holder. This had the effect of restoring the copyright in the work as of 1 January 1996.

Under current EU copyright law, the film will remain under copyright in Germany and the rest of the European Union until the end of 2046, 70 years after Fritz Lang's death. Under current U.S. copyright law, Metropolis entered the public domain on 1 January 2023; the U.S. copyright limit for films of its age is 95 years from publication per the Copyright Term Extension Act.
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This law doesn't affect these books, because they must've been approved and exist, but one of the best Sherlock Holmes pastiches are the Mycroft Holmes books by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Apparently this black American basketball guy is a MASSIVE Sherlock Holmes nerd, and he writes Doyle-esque, very period authentic books telling the stories of Sherlock's brother solving mysteries before Sherlock got established as a detective.

I'm no big Sherlock guy, but they're damn enjoyable and an immediate buy for me whenever he puts out a new one.
 
I saw a Tumblr post last night about them celebrating reading older fictional works online due to the public domain. Do I screenshot that during the day?
 
Just imagine some 10 - 15 years from now that Gone With The Wind would become public domain material unless US changes the law again. Citizen Kane is entering Public Domain next year in many countries as well as Mein Kampf entering Public Domain 3 years from now, In Spain at least.
 
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