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If you look at this forum discussion... https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?p=743803#p743803 https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?p=743803#p743803 Yo
by Ologn 11y ago
If you look at this forum discussion...
https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?p=743803#p743803 https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?p=743803#p743803
You can see that an audio recording of a book published in 1921 was pulled due to legal letters.
Of course, in the US, works from 1921 are all supposed to be in the public domain. But already events like this occur for places other than LibriVox - multi-national companies with large legal departments and law firms on retainers not only assert rights for works from 1923 on, but for works before that as well. Most small companies and organizations can't deal with the time and expense required from these spurious legal threats and are forced to give in.
Once TPP passes, things will just get much worse.
- TheRealPomax 11y agoThat would be a more valid argument if the link provided was about an actual copyright court case, rather than the estate of Agathy Christy asserting their ownership over the material in question.
- Ologn 11y agoHow can they win "an actual copyright court case" for copyrights they don't hold? When TPP passes, they actually will hold these rights.