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As noted a few days ago, many notable works from the 1920s have ascended to the public domain in the US this year, as of New Year's Day. Cartoon Brew asks, What Happens When 'Steamboat Willie' Hits The Public Domain In 2024? and briefly covers a bit of what the public is set to gain. Notably, the earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain then as a result.
Assuming that 17 U.S.C. §§ 108, 203(a)(2), 301(c), 302, 303, 304(c)(2) is not modified yet again, be sure to observe the difference between trademarks and copyright.
Previously:
(2022) 2023's Public Domain is a Banger
(2022) Digitization Wars, Redux
(2022) Public Domain Day 2022
(2021) Public Domain Day in the USA: Works from 1925 are Open to All!
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by canopic jug on Tuesday January 03, @01:12PM (3 children)
[...] anything good has already been copied, cracked, read, listen to, watched and distributed [...]
Thus there has been this ongoing push to deploy digital restrictions management (DRM) technology throughout the hardware and software stacks: You already have HDMI's High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), UEFI, TPM 2.0 (not just 1,0), and Pluton.
Once each layer of the stack has DRM and once each layer's DRM is interconnected with the adjacent layers from top to bottom then the laws will come to make non-compliance illegal and you can kiss all that *BSD, */Linux, HaikuOS, or anything else goodbye. Look at how whitebox systems were basically banned for a while and, for all practical purposes, still are. That was about preventing GNU/Linux from hitting the store shelves via the OEMs and had really only one lobbying firm, M$, behind the push. With DRM there are all kinds of hangers on, not just M$ but also MPAA, RIAA, medical device manufacturers, automobile manufacturers, farm equipment manufacturers, mobile phone manufacturers, etc. They're already quite active greasing palms and have been for years now. The time to fight is now, before it manifests.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 03, @04:40PM
Reading this makes me very glad to not be living in a fascist corporatist police state with no human rights (AKA the USA). Something like you just described would never be allowed in free countries.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Tuesday January 03, @05:21PM
The Right to Read [gnu.org] is a scary bit of (thankfully so far) fiction about what happens once they get what they want.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Tuesday January 03, @05:33PM
DRM will never work because the last layer is in plain text, plain audio and plain image: people read unencrypted text, listen to analog audio and watch moving analog images. That last layer will never have DRM. Even if the sumbitches manage to lock the whole stack tight, people will just scan books, record the audio off the speaker and re-record movies with a camcorder pointing at the TV.
All DRM will ever achieve is inconvenience the shit out of everybody and lower the quality of the pirated copy a bit. It'll never achieve anything more than that, by virtue of human beings' input channels being impossible to DRM.