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I'm sort of embarrassed to contemplate how much emotional energy goes into casting copyright arguments in such overwrought terms. Locking culture away from us?

• scrollaway 11y ago
  Where do you get violence from a metaphorical lock and the idea of culture? Care to explain how copyright does not achieve that? The term isn't overwrought, it actually perfectly describes what it achieves. It puts a lock on cultural works.
• baldfat 11y ago
  It is a big thing if you step back and think what should have become Public Domain this year. https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2016/pre-1976 https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2016/pre-1976 Nothing has entered Public Domain until 2019 IF it isn't extended. Good case of how it sucks: Sherlock Holmes. Half the stuff is copyrighted and the earlier stuff is Public Domain. So we only get half the stories and nothing about an older Sherlock.
  • kuschku 11y ago
    By the way, this year in Germany "Mein Kampf" and Anne Frank’s diary entered the public domain. In the US, it’s a bit more complicated, and they’re still illegal to copy, despite being out of copyright in the country of the copyright holder.