Saturday, August 07, 2004

Public Domain

Wired News: Fencing Off the Public Domain
著作物は誰のため? 作品の再利用をめぐる米国の現状

These articles are little bit old, but it talks about "copywright".

"Today, corporations receive 95 years of protection, while individuals get protection for their lifetime plus another 70 years."

This means there are a lot of, arts, music, movies, can be used for free. You can even use them in your piece of works, and even sell them.

"The way our culture works is not through inventing something truly new, but by recycling a few themes in ways that are insightful, given changing times and the ways we relate to each other,"

You can find many many Public Domain Materials! Lots of movies!



More about it later.

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