Since January 1! Happy Public Domain Day!
January 1 is a great day. Today, millions of people around the world congratulate each other on the holiday of ... Public Domain Day! Exactly at midnight on this day thousands and thousands of works of our culture are set free, in accordance with the laws they are freed from copyright and transferred into the public domain , i.e. become available to the whole society without copyright restrictions. With works in the public domain, you can do anything you want - copy, edit, translate into other languages, commercially use, take as a basis for new works that you create. This is a great celebration for all opponents of prohibitive copyright. Right holders can no longer obstruct the way of copying and using thousands of movies, songs, photos, texts. You can, for example, publicly perform a song or take a poem and create your own song based on it, or you can shoot a film based on a book. You can also put the text of the book on your website or independently publish the work in the form of a book and take money for it. Everything is absolutely legal! It is only necessary to specify the authorship, but in the US you can and do not.
In most countries of the world, copyright expires 70 years after the author’s death, i.e. the works of which the author died before January 1, 1941, or works published anonymously before January 1, 1941, are now in the public domain. That is, specifically in 2011, we recall the authors who died in 1940. The list of the most famous authors can be found on publicdomainworks.net or on Wikipedia in Russian ( short list , full list ) or in English ( short list , full list ).
In Russia, there is also a 70-year term, but in addition there is another border - if the author * died before January 1, 1943, or the work was published anonymously before January 1, 1943, then the work is in the public domain . That is, while 70 term is not so useful for us, but still not completely useless. On January 1, 2011, cinema, television and cartoons, television and radio programs, made public before January 1, 1941, are in the public domain . So, in 1940, the following films were released.
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Remember that public domain (and also Creative Commons licenses , because, unfortunately, ML is not enough now ) is our only legal method of coping with copywriting through the competition thus created . We have already defeated proprietary encyclopedias using Wikipedia and will soon defeat proprietary Google Maps and Yandex.Maps using free and free OpenStreetMap maps ! And in the future, free news sources ( Private correspondent and Wikinews ) will win proprietary media!
Maintain and actively use free content - copy pictures into your blogs that can be found through search.creativecommons.org ! Put on your posts on Habrahabr the license “ Creative Commons Attribution ” as I do it or pass posts into the public domain! Upload your photos to Wikimedia Commons , Flickr or Google PicasaWeb under free licenses! Tell your friends and in your blogs about copyright - everyone should know about the absurd term of copyright protection after the author's death!
Fight for the public domain! Information created with the money of Russian taxpayers should be in the public domain and not just be available for free, it should be free of copyright as it was done in the USA! The situation is unacceptable when American photos from Mars (!) Are available to Russians, and we even have information from the press services of government departments protected by copyright! Russian state media should produce content in the public domain as Voice of America does! Maps of Roskartografiya must also be in the public domain! All Soviet works (films, songs, etc.) also created with state money must be bought out and transferred to the public domain! It is necessary to cancel the stupid extension of the copyright during rehabilitation, participation in the Second World War or publication of the work after death (because of this, the works of Isaac Babel and the Master and Margarita and the Days of the Turbins by Bulgakov in the West are already in the public domain, and we have copyright, that is simply disgraceful)! It is necessary to stop copywriters, so that they do not dare to say that Russia has weaker copyright laws than in the West - we actually have much tougher legislation in Russia than is necessary ( see about European libraries )! The term of copyright protection should be reduced from 70 to 50 years - in accordance with the Bern Convention ! Photos should be protected 25 years from the moment of creation, and not 70 years from the moment of death of the author . And in the future, it is necessary to switch to the registration of copyright or the use of a special inscription ( as it was before in the USA ) instead of automatic protection from the moment the work was created. And so on and so forth. Our goals are clear, objectives are defined. For the work, comrades! =))
Once again, everyone happy public domain day ! January 1 is our day!
PS: Everyone says something about a new year. You do not know what it is?
Under the cut map of the terms of copyright protection in different countries.
UPD: So, who in karma and what shits?
See also:
PD-Russia-2008 Template on Wikimedia Commons
publicdomainday.org
publicdomainday.org - links
The text of the civil code of the Russian Federation
Public Domain Manifesto
* provided that: 1) the author did not work during the Second World War and did not participate in it - otherwise the copyright term is 74 years; 2) the author was not rehabilitated after the repression - otherwise the period is counted from the date of rehabilitation; 3) the works were published during his lifetime - otherwise the period runs from the moment of publication (for example, the Master and Margarita Bulgakov)
Disclamer: I am not a lawyer and I do not give legal advice, there may be errors in the text.
I apologize that I mix OD and free CC a bit, but in Russia and for our purposes it is almost the same.
This text is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License .
You may copy, edit and use this text for commercial purposes with the obligatory indication of authorship.
In most countries of the world, copyright expires 70 years after the author’s death, i.e. the works of which the author died before January 1, 1941, or works published anonymously before January 1, 1941, are now in the public domain. That is, specifically in 2011, we recall the authors who died in 1940. The list of the most famous authors can be found on publicdomainworks.net or on Wikipedia in Russian ( short list , full list ) or in English ( short list , full list ).
In Russia, there is also a 70-year term, but in addition there is another border - if the author * died before January 1, 1943, or the work was published anonymously before January 1, 1943, then the work is in the public domain . That is, while 70 term is not so useful for us, but still not completely useless. On January 1, 2011, cinema, television and cartoons, television and radio programs, made public before January 1, 1941, are in the public domain . So, in 1940, the following films were released.
')
Remember that public domain (and also Creative Commons licenses , because, unfortunately, ML is not enough now ) is our only legal method of coping with copywriting through the competition thus created . We have already defeated proprietary encyclopedias using Wikipedia and will soon defeat proprietary Google Maps and Yandex.Maps using free and free OpenStreetMap maps ! And in the future, free news sources ( Private correspondent and Wikinews ) will win proprietary media!
Maintain and actively use free content - copy pictures into your blogs that can be found through search.creativecommons.org ! Put on your posts on Habrahabr the license “ Creative Commons Attribution ” as I do it or pass posts into the public domain! Upload your photos to Wikimedia Commons , Flickr or Google PicasaWeb under free licenses! Tell your friends and in your blogs about copyright - everyone should know about the absurd term of copyright protection after the author's death!
Fight for the public domain! Information created with the money of Russian taxpayers should be in the public domain and not just be available for free, it should be free of copyright as it was done in the USA! The situation is unacceptable when American photos from Mars (!) Are available to Russians, and we even have information from the press services of government departments protected by copyright! Russian state media should produce content in the public domain as Voice of America does! Maps of Roskartografiya must also be in the public domain! All Soviet works (films, songs, etc.) also created with state money must be bought out and transferred to the public domain! It is necessary to cancel the stupid extension of the copyright during rehabilitation, participation in the Second World War or publication of the work after death (because of this, the works of Isaac Babel and the Master and Margarita and the Days of the Turbins by Bulgakov in the West are already in the public domain, and we have copyright, that is simply disgraceful)! It is necessary to stop copywriters, so that they do not dare to say that Russia has weaker copyright laws than in the West - we actually have much tougher legislation in Russia than is necessary ( see about European libraries )! The term of copyright protection should be reduced from 70 to 50 years - in accordance with the Bern Convention ! Photos should be protected 25 years from the moment of creation, and not 70 years from the moment of death of the author . And in the future, it is necessary to switch to the registration of copyright or the use of a special inscription ( as it was before in the USA ) instead of automatic protection from the moment the work was created. And so on and so forth. Our goals are clear, objectives are defined. For the work, comrades! =))
Once again, everyone happy public domain day ! January 1 is our day!
PS: Everyone says something about a new year. You do not know what it is?
Under the cut map of the terms of copyright protection in different countries.
UPD: So, who in karma and what shits?
See also:
PD-Russia-2008 Template on Wikimedia Commons
publicdomainday.org
publicdomainday.org - links
The text of the civil code of the Russian Federation
Public Domain Manifesto
* provided that: 1) the author did not work during the Second World War and did not participate in it - otherwise the copyright term is 74 years; 2) the author was not rehabilitated after the repression - otherwise the period is counted from the date of rehabilitation; 3) the works were published during his lifetime - otherwise the period runs from the moment of publication (for example, the Master and Margarita Bulgakov)
Disclamer: I am not a lawyer and I do not give legal advice, there may be errors in the text.
I apologize that I mix OD and free CC a bit, but in Russia and for our purposes it is almost the same.
This text is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License .
You may copy, edit and use this text for commercial purposes with the obligatory indication of authorship.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/110888/
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