Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are...
by acdha on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:16PM
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Yeah, there would definitely need to be some thresholds for things like lifetime revenue and use (e.g. you wouldn’t want a service trying to play silly games pretending that they didn’t collect revenue for a movie because it’s a complimentary to their members with some other purchase).
Limited editions are interesting, especially if they’re not something easily compared to a mainstream release. Maybe you’d need an appeal process where someone could get a special exception by the Copyright office under certain circumstances.
I also wonder about the implications for the copyright status of a "limited edition" version of a work. I'm not sure how that would play out.