From Motherboard
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 Kalas on Tuesday January 01 2019, @06:44AM
How on earth did this get voted to +5? I can get maybe one person (you in this case) skimming over the "/s" and taking that statement at face value but it's surprising to see so many other replies here that completely miss the sarcasm.
It should be pretty clear the AC was mocking such young fools who can't see the value in the classics. (I refuse to use the term millenial because it's abused to the point of losing meaning.)