Used to be that copyrights expired after 75 years, so in 1998 we got access to 1922. Then Disney got that extended to 95 years. On Jan. 1, we finally get to integrate 1923.
“The public domain has been frozen in time for 20 years, and we’re reaching the 20-year thaw,” says Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. The release is unprecedented, and its impact on culture and creativity could be huge. We have never seen such a mass entry into the public domain in the digital age. The last one—in 1998, when 1922 slipped its copyright bond—predated Google. “We have shortchanged a generation,” said Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. “The 20th century is largely missing from the internet.”
The Meal wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:36 am
If I were to write an answer to this topic (and I've posted it here a time or two before) it's that Orville Wright died on January 30, 1948 (aged 76) in
Dayton, Ohio, but that Neil Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, OH. One of the dudes that built the first airplane overlapped 18 years of life with the first guy who hopped across the surface of the moon. Wild!
Semi related, but I've always found it amazing that it was only 10 years that elapsed between the Wright Brother's proof of flight and the start of WW1 with many airplanes in the sky. During the course of their experimentations, they tried in vain to convince militaries around the world that they'd solved the flight problem. It feels like an amazing amount of technological process in a short time.
It was a devisive structure when it was first built. Some loved it, but many hated its odd, skeletonized shape. Decades later the French became attached to the tower and adopted it as a national symbol. France united around the tower and recognized it for being more attractive than it actually is.
McNutt wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 11:07 am
France united around the tower and recognized it for being more attractive than it actually is.
France and Trump have a lot in common. Trump is fond of building unattractive towers (we have one here in Chicago), and he adores useless walls (Maginot line, anyone?)
Used to be that copyrights expired after 75 years, so in 1998 we got access to 1922. Then Disney got that extended to 95 years. On Jan. 1, we finally get to integrate 1923.
“The public domain has been frozen in time for 20 years, and we’re reaching the 20-year thaw,” says Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. The release is unprecedented, and its impact on culture and creativity could be huge. We have never seen such a mass entry into the public domain in the digital age. The last one—in 1998, when 1922 slipped its copyright bond—predated Google. “We have shortchanged a generation,” said Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. “The 20th century is largely missing from the internet.”
I'm a copyright Dove, and I would love to see restrictions on reproduction and redistribution loosened, but the highlighted statement seems hyperbolic. The 20th century was an explosion of mass media, and it was better preserved and indexed than any century before.
If you're willing to visit a major physical library and spend a little time on requests, there's really nothing of consequence that copyright laws will keep out of your hands. The only problem you'll encounter is if you believe you should have everything instantly and on-screen, and that's something that few believed feasible even 10 years ago.
Only 66 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the U.S. are confident that the world is round, according to a new national survey.
The findings don't necessarily indicate an epidemic of flat-Earthism, as only 4 percent of the 18- to 24-year-old age group said they actually believe the world is flat. Rather, there seem to be a relatively large number in this age group who are willing to entertain doubts: 9 percent said they had always believed the world was round but were recently having doubts, 5 percent said they had always believed the world was flat but were becoming skeptical of that conclusion and 16 percent just weren't sure.
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Overall, the results suggest that 84 percent of Americans believe the world is round. Five percent said they always believed the world to be round but have recently become skeptical. Two percent said the world is flat. Another 2 percent said they always thought the world was flat but have recently become skeptical. And 7 percent just weren't sure.
"Young millennials," or those ages 18 to 24, were the most likely to exhibit round-Earth skepticism, with only 66 percent firm in their belief in a spherical world. For comparison, 94 percent of those 55 and older think the world is round, as do 85 percent of 45- to 54-year-olds, 82 percent of 35- to 44-year-olds and 76 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds.
IDK if I'm more reassured that 84% of Americans know the earth's a sphere or bothered that 16% don't. The bottom 15-20% of responses in any poll are garbage, though, and this is consistent with that.
Used to be that copyrights expired after 75 years, so in 1998 we got access to 1922. Then Disney got that extended to 95 years. On Jan. 1, we finally get to integrate 1923.
“The public domain has been frozen in time for 20 years, and we’re reaching the 20-year thaw,” says Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. The release is unprecedented, and its impact on culture and creativity could be huge. We have never seen such a mass entry into the public domain in the digital age. The last one—in 1998, when 1922 slipped its copyright bond—predated Google. “We have shortchanged a generation,” said Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. “The 20th century is largely missing from the internet.”
I'm a copyright Dove, and I would love to see restrictions on reproduction and redistribution loosened, but the highlighted statement seems hyperbolic. The 20th century was an explosion of mass media, and it was better preserved and indexed than any century before.
If you're willing to visit a major physical library and spend a little time on requests, there's really nothing of consequence that copyright laws will keep out of your hands. The only problem you'll encounter is if you believe you should have everything instantly and on-screen, and that's something that few believed feasible even 10 years ago.
Accept for the material that was lost or disintegrated in the 20 years , waiting to be digitized
