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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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What Happens When ‘Steamboat Willie’ Hits The Public Domain In 2024?
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(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.