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To avoid the advent calendar, this may be more useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_public_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_public_domain
by Arainach 11mo ago
To avoid the advent calendar, this may be more useful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_public_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_public_domain
- venturecruelty 11mo agoNeat! I just discovered that Carolyn Keene's first Nancy Drew story, "The Secret of the Old Clock", will be in the public domain next year. I remember reading this in elementary school when I was on a big mystery kick for a while (I had some of the computer games, too). I had no idea it was that old.
- Fordec 11mo agoWhat really sends home just how ridiculously long it takes public domain to kick in to me is that Mein Kampf is on that list. It feels like something that even in 1996 would have been a bit eye-raisingly overdue.
- chistev 11mo agoWhat does it mean to be in public domain
- fsckboy 11mo agothat the Hitler estate can't sue you for copyright infringement if you publish it yourself and distribute copies.
- chistev 11mo agoInteresting that he still has an estate. And thanks for explaining what it means
- gbear605 11mo agoIn practice, there was not a Hitler estate - the government of Bavaria (a state in Germany) took ownership of the copyright.
- fsckboy 11mo agoHitler did have a nephew by blood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston and I guess a few others, but dwindling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_family https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/some-of-hitlers-last-relatives-are-living-secret-lives-on-long-island/ https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/some-of-hitlers-last-relatives...
- j2kun 11mo ago...did they exercise it?
- gbear605 11mo agoRather the opposite, they disallowed anyone from printing copies
- realityking 11mo agoEstate is a common law concept. There’s no direct equivalent in German law.
- teraflop 11mo agoThat question is answered by the first sentence on the page that this thread is discussing: > At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose.
- estsauver 11mo agoThat is only for Spain, which has copyright of Death of Author + 80.
- rzz3 11mo agoThen why is he listed in that table? I don’t get it.
- GolDDranks 11mo agoBecause that table is "Entering the public domain in countries with life + 80 years".
- mikae1 11mo agoAre you mistaking William Faulkner's mustache for Hitler's?
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- culi 11mo agoIt's absolutely ridiculous and has almost everything to do with Disney trying to maintain their hold on Mickey Mouse. Every single time his expiration came up they managed to lobby for an extension and now we're left with this current mess of a system
- actionfromafar 11mo agoWow, I didn't know the connections between Mickey Mouse and Mein Kampf ran that deep. ;-)
- Oarch 11mo agoI was like you once... takes long drag from cigarette
- aaronbrethorst 11mo agoI see that How to Win Friends and Influence People is on there. I'm looking forward to the inevitable And Zombies adaptation coming in 2027.
- al_borland 11mo agoSo is the Diary of Anne Frank, that will surely get some sort of zombie remix in poor taste, I’m sure.
- b3lvedere 11mo agoOne could even combine How to Win Friends and Influence People, the Diary of Anne Frank, the works of Einstein and Adolf Hitler into a some strange gory anime and others could do nothing about that. The possibilities are endless.
- lukan 11mo ago"and others could do nothing about that. The possibilities are endless." Well, I wouldn't be so sure about it. Just because other people have no more copyright legal angle, there are still other legal and plenty of non legal ways to bother you, if you manage to piss enough people off.
- b3lvedere 11mo agoWell yeah, but that's just being part of this universe and applicable to anything. If one were to write fanfic with all those things combined, legally there are no repercussions, but people have indeed been tried and burned for less. Imagine all the weird generative AI now these works all go public. Don't have to like it, but just imagine. So much crap will be produced in 2026.
- weberer 11mo agoThere's already the new musical, Slam Frank, which gives the story of Ann Frank the Hamilton treatment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_Frank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_Frank
- nottorp 11mo agoPretty sad that even a well intentioned non profit thinks it has to resort to "engagement" shenanigans.
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- nottorp 11mo agoThey need money to recover the money they spent on “engagement” “experts”? You get predatory tactics in part because you accept them as normal.
- AnimalMuppet 11mo agoDo they? Do they really think I'm going to come back each day to see what the new reveal is, and on the 17th day I'm going to decide "Oh, hey, maybe I should send them some money"? No. No, I'm not. I'm gone and I'm not coming back. Ain't nobody got time for games like this.