079 - Public Domain 2023 feat. Nancy Sims

New Year New works in the Public Domain! This week we have Nancy Sims to talk about what’s entering the Public Domain in 2023. Of course we had to touch on AI authorship and copyright, Naruto the monkey, and a possible solution for regular weeding discourses. 

Readings

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

https://vimeo.com/696206791 - Sherlock Holmes presentation by Nancy

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/29/canada-steals-cultural-works-from-the-public-by-extending-copyright-terms/
Chapter 2 of Jamie Boyle’s “Public Domain” book - https://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/ - especially pages 19-23 or so, but the rest of it is also really telling about some historical thinking on exclusive IP rights. (With all the caveats about “founding fathers” that have ever caveated.) 

Media mentioned

https://xkcd.com/294/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_(TV_series) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing_(1993_film) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clueless

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Own_Private_Idaho