{"id":136075,"date":"2018-04-08T19:16:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T01:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136075"},"modified":"2018-04-09T07:07:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:07:07","slug":"the-us-public-domain-floodgates-prepare-to-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/08\/the-us-public-domain-floodgates-prepare-to-open.html","title":{"rendered":"The US Public Domain floodgates prepare to open"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to believe that the major media companies will actually let things start sliding into the public domain again on 1 January 2019. But is there any desire or will in Congress to protect Big Media right now? (This may be the sole tarnished silver lining of having the GOP in charge, given that the Dems have tended to be more Big Media-friendly.)<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping the past starts being accessible again.<\/p>\n


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\nA Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain – The Atlantic<\/a><\/span>
\nFor the first time in two decades, a huge number of books, films, and other works will escape U.S. copyright law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It’s hard to believe that the major media companies will actually let things start sliding into the public domain again on 1 January 2019. But is there any desire or will in Congress to protect Big Media right now? (This may be the sole tarnished silver lining of having the GOP in charge, given that … Continue reading “The US Public Domain floodgates prepare to open”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,263,79,28,374],"tags":[1487,305],"class_list":["post-136075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-disney","category-media-intellectual-property","category-media-moguls","category-money-politics","tag-big-media","tag-copyright"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129500,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/in-a-world-where-us-copyright-law-wasnt-changed-in-1976.html","url_meta":{"origin":136075,"position":0},"title":"In a world where US copyright law wasn't changed in 1976","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Jan-16 6:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... we in the US would have seen creative works (books, movies, even scientific papers and articles) from 1959 enter the public domain. 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