The Mary Sue: Every year on January 1, much of the world celebrates Public Domain Day: the day when new works fall out of copyright and enter the public domain. In Canada and New Zealand, January 1, 2018 marked the day when creative work by anyone who died in 1967 (50 years ago) became part of the public domain. In most of Europe and South America, it marked the day when creative works by anyone who died in 1947 (70 years ago) became public domain.
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In response to the title: yes I am sick of the reboot era of movie making. I think an interesting point that this article talks about how limiting U.S. Copyright Law because it shows that the public domain drought is not more than an American problem. It is ridiculous that the huge corporation of Walt Disney has so much control that it can determine that the government changes a copyright law. This issue shows how much control corporations have in the government, which is very scary. The one positive I found in this article is when the author talks about how in the US “copyright protections are applied automatically, even if an artist doesn’t know enough to file for it; that means artists who don’t have lawyers or an education in copyright are still entitled to protection for their creativity.” As an emerging stage and production manager who works with young artists trying to make it, I am so happy to be reminded of how much protection my peers’ work gets. Even in a school setting is nice to know that what my friends and I are creating for the class is ours on a legal level. Yes, I understand that many company contracts say they own someone’s ideas on a show after the artist works for them on that show but still for freelancers, not in this situation, it is nice to know that copyright law isn’t all bad and does protect my fellow artists and authors.
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