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In most countries works go into public domain XX years after death of author. Predicting date of death is non-trivial problem.
by terramex 3y ago
In most countries works go into public domain XX years after death of author. Predicting date of death is non-trivial problem.
- ClassyJacket 3y agoWho is the author of a collaborative work like a film?
- terramex 3y ago> According to UK copyright law, in order to know if a film is in the public domain you need to identify the following creators: (a) the principal director (b) the author of the screenplay (c) the author of the dialogue, and (d) the composer of music specially created for and used in the film > Copyright in the film expires 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last person listed above dies. Taken from: https://www.copyrightuser.org/create/public-domain/duration/ https://www.copyrightuser.org/create/public-domain/duration/
- Snow_Falls 3y agoInteresting that the actors aren't taken into account, you would think so considering the large impact they have on the final product. Certainly more so than the music director. Maybe that last one is just a result of the powerful music lobby.
- daveoc64 3y agoI think it would be difficult to truly list all of the actors in a particular film, let alone establish when they all died. Do extras count? Many of them aren't going to be listed in the credits. Perhaps you could only count those actors listed in the credits at the end of the film and nobody else?
- ta1243 3y ago> I think it would be difficult to truly list all of the actors in a particular film, let alone establish when they all died. > Do extras count? Many of them aren't going to be listed in the credits. The person who is the most successful actor -- if you take the box office of all their appearances and sum them -- is Stan Lee. All those MCU appearances adds up. You probably wouldn't be too surprised about that if you thought about it. At position number 3 though is Frank Welker -- the guy who voices Fred in much of the original Scooby-Doo cartoons. More recently he's Nibbler in Futurama. The top 5 have 2 other voice actors, including Bob Bergan -- who played Merv in Monsters University, and unforgettably Ant Worker #2 in Antz When you are credited as "Additional Voices", does it really apply? Incidently, Stan Lee may be top of the charts in total, but Warwick Davis is a bigger hit on average -- bringing $633m per film he's in compared to Lee's $612m. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_actors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_actor...
- luismedel 3y agoThird hard problem in computing after the infamous "naming things", "cache invalidation" and "off by 1 errors".
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoI mean, dying is kinda nature invalidating cache... You key is evicted buddy, now go back to the big blob of matter.
- hyperpape 3y agoIf you have XX years, you can update the expiration date when the author dies. If the author is still alive, expiration is safely decades in the future. Of course, the real problem is that the system is not seriously designed with the idea that false positives are a problem.
- Dalewyn 3y agoMost systems (involving computers and otherwise) are not designed with death in mind, even though death comes for all. I would know because I'm on the tail end of cleaning up affairs from a recent family death.