Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies
by aidenn0 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:20PM
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What about the ballet The Sleeping Beauty? Disney used Tchaikovsky's music heavily in their adaption despite it being less than 70 years after his death (and even further from being 95 years from its premiere).
That's always my go-to example for copyright because:
1. Disney has benefited both from extending copyright and from the previous shorter duration of copyright
2. The fact that a work from the 19th century would still be under copyright in 1959 is astonishing to many people
3. Disney's Sleeping Beauty, despite opening to mixed reviews, is generally well received today and is a great example of what we are missing out on; this work (judged "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the LoC) could not have been made if today's rules existed in 1959.
That's always my go-to example for copyright because:
1. Disney has benefited both from extending copyright and from the previous shorter duration of copyright
2. The fact that a work from the 19th century would still be under copyright in 1959 is astonishing to many people
3. Disney's Sleeping Beauty, despite opening to mixed reviews, is generally well received today and is a great example of what we are missing out on; this work (judged "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the LoC) could not have been made if today's rules existed in 1959.