huh wierd I was just coming to post a public domain thread if there wasnt one. neat
So for college I'm doing something with public domain comic booksWhich books/issues in particular would you fags say are particularly exemplary
>>153055605He looks fucked up
I have quite the list of public domain I gathered up and have made some work on in various formats. i'll post some of the links shortly. finishing up some stuff with one currently.
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>>153055605I really do wonder what the fucking point of the 95 years after publication or 70 years after the death of the creator rule even is, I mean seriously, I really do.I get that maybe the earliest copyright laws that only allowed for something to be under copyright protection for less than 30 years weren't good enough, but who the fuck actually benefits from 95 years after publication? It's retarded, it's not like anyone care about the thing itself as much as the characters, and even then it's absurd, did the Disney company lose any revenue since 2024 when Mickey went public domain? And did Disney stop using Mickey? It's totally absurd, on average, a character stops being commercially relevant after 30 years anyway on average, they could have literally never lobbied for this bullshit and the impact on the revenue would have been virtually nothing. Fuck these cronies.
>>153057819>95 years after publication or 70 years after the death of the creatorso which one is it exactly? Spider-man came out in 1962 but steve and ditko died in the late 2010's
>>153055673I guess Tarazan (books) and Winnie the pooh
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>>153056360Whose that?
>>153057986https://pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Lara
>>153057819Unironically EuropePeople blame corporate lobbyists, Sonny Bono, etc and they are partially to blame, but the CTEA was largely enacted to coordinate American copyright terms with EU termsI don't know if they made new terms with the creation of the EU or if the US signing onto the Berne Convention in 1989 changed things but Europe has the most retarded copyright laws and Congress felt US terms should be comparable for strategery reasonsYou know you can copyright the damn phonebook in Europe?>>153057874In the US, 95 for works-for-hire, 70 for personal registrations. I believe the 70-years thing hasn't taken effect yet because it's going forwards from 1978
>>153055605For me its Michael Mouse
>>153057819ironic how Disney built its career on public domain IPs yet hates to see its characters used in the same way
>>153055605Here's a fun fact, Every cartoon in Japan before 1953 is in the Public Domain so you get lots of DVDs over there that look like this
