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thewayneThank you, Disney and The Mouse. [/sarcasm]
Yes, thanks to Disney and Cher's ex-husband slamming into a tree while skiing, copyright got extended and for 20 years, in the USA, nothing was released into the public domain to protect Steamboat Willy. Well, this year that changes. Doesn't mean that Disney won't be gearing up for other changes and exclusions, but at least for now we'll be getting something.
Among new (almost century old) material getting released:
--Poems of Robert Frost
--Plays of Oscar Wilde
--Writings of Winston Churchill
--Cecil B. DeMille’s original The Ten Commandments
and lots of other stuff
A lot of this was already available on sites like Project Gutenberg in Canada and Australia, just not here.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/
Yes, thanks to Disney and Cher's ex-husband slamming into a tree while skiing, copyright got extended and for 20 years, in the USA, nothing was released into the public domain to protect Steamboat Willy. Well, this year that changes. Doesn't mean that Disney won't be gearing up for other changes and exclusions, but at least for now we'll be getting something.
Among new (almost century old) material getting released:
--Poems of Robert Frost
--Plays of Oscar Wilde
--Writings of Winston Churchill
--Cecil B. DeMille’s original The Ten Commandments
and lots of other stuff
A lot of this was already available on sites like Project Gutenberg in Canada and Australia, just not here.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/
