Re: Re: Re: Re: How does this matter when you kids believe even NEW works are yours for the taking?
Relative to other mediums, movies are pretty good. I watch a lot of obscure movies and it's amazing what's available. In fact movies are one area where being in the public domain makes it worse, because there aren't enough movies in the public domain to build an industry around like there is with books and music.
That said, lots of movies still aren't available or easily available or need restoration and copyright isn't helping anybody - even the studios that own them and doing nothing with them.
Re: Re: How does this matter when you kids believe even NEW works are yours for the taking?
It's not really the old movies, because the studios do a pretty decent job of making them available. It's all the collateral culture they copyrighted with it by extending the terms on everything.
This means books, poems, songs, photographs, TV broadcasts, magazines, and many other things that the creators never anticipated being under copyright long past their deaths, and no effort is being made to preserve them, archive them, or make them available to the public in any way - either because it's just not economically viable, or the owner just doesn't care. This is assuming, of course, the owner of the work is known. If not, the work sits unused because you can't even ask permission or pay someone to use it.
For the sake of the movie business, all the rest of culture suffers.
I don't care what Trump spews when he's not president, but when he's president, everything he says matter. If a Democrat or anyone else were put in his place, then yes, I'd hold them to the same standards. I don't know of any president that has publicly spewed as much hate, insults, and juvenile comments as Trump has in the last year.
There's no shrugging it off and saying "it's just his personal account" or "other people do it too." He's the goddamn president!
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Re: Where are the lobbyists?
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That said, lots of movies still aren't available or easily available or need restoration and copyright isn't helping anybody - even the studios that own them and doing nothing with them.
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On the post: Hopefully For The Last Time: The US Has Zero New Works Enter The Public Domain On January 1st
Re: Re: How does this matter when you kids believe even NEW works are yours for the taking?
This means books, poems, songs, photographs, TV broadcasts, magazines, and many other things that the creators never anticipated being under copyright long past their deaths, and no effort is being made to preserve them, archive them, or make them available to the public in any way - either because it's just not economically viable, or the owner just doesn't care. This is assuming, of course, the owner of the work is known. If not, the work sits unused because you can't even ask permission or pay someone to use it.
For the sake of the movie business, all the rest of culture suffers.
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Re: Lets say this
On the post: Right On Cue, Marsha Blackburn Introduces A Fake Net Neutrality Bill To Make The FCC's Idiotic Decision Permanent
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She's been a front for the telecom industry for almost 15 years, and her wealthy voting district is happy to her in office.
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Copyright is about to get much, much worse.
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There's no shrugging it off and saying "it's just his personal account" or "other people do it too." He's the goddamn president!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This smear job has flopped. Dropped off Drudge.
Too late!
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Re: The bigger story...
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