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When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, movies, songs, and books created in the United States in 1923—even beloved cartoons such as Felix the Cat—will be eligible for anyone to adapt, repurpose, or distribute as they please.
A 20-year freeze on copyright expirations has prevented a cache of 1923 works from entering the public domain, including Paramount Pictures' The Ten Commandments, Charlie Chaplin's The Pilgrim, and novels by Aldous Huxley.
Such a massive release of iconic works is unprecedented, experts say—especially in the digital age, as the last big dump predated Google.
In 2013, Paul Heald, a law professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, conducted a survey of books for sale on Amazon. He found that more books were for sale from the 1880s than the 1980s.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday January 01 2019, @02:05AM
It's got some really good point, alright. But my point was that just disliking the "classic literature" you get exposed to doesn't say much without saying *which* literature (and often even which translation) you disliked. There are versions of Dante's "Inferno" that I really like, but other translations leave me wishing the guy hadn't written it.
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