Here's the more precise tables. You might get a year or more from these.
Of course, knowing this, we're told to save for 30 years of retirement starting at 65.
Star Trek Public Domain??
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Of course, knowing this, we're told to save for 30 years of retirement starting at 65.
One of my former colleagues at Diamond retired this week. Dying at his keyboard at the office was his dream, and it was an elaborate one. Thankfully, it did not come to pass.I have no intention of retiring. I fully intend to drop dead at my keyboard like a proper writer.
I have no intention of retiring. I fully intend to drop dead at my keyboard like a proper writer.
Good news, then... the way things are going, most of us are probably going to have to work till we die, so you won't be alone in that.
Personally, I'm just hoping to survive the neverending layoffs long enough to make it to retirement, assuming such a thing does still exist by then. And if I'm really lucky, maybe I'll be able to afford to keep a roof over my head after retiring.
The first season of Star Trek will fall into the public domain in the US on Jan 1, 2061, so that's 35 years.
36 is correct. 1966 copyrights expire (in the US) at the end of 2061, not the beginning.
I can't imagine Disney will ever let characters like Mickey Mouse go completely into the public domain, or that DC/WB will let Superman and Batman, Lucasfilm will let Star Wars, or Paramount will let Star Trek, I'm sure they'll find some way to stop it. There's no way they're going to just let anybody do whatever they want with their core characters, they might be willing to put with a few early things going that way, since they tend to be fairly limited, but once we reach the point where the most famous elements of those characters or shows/movies are going, they're going to stop it somehow, there's just to much on the line for them.
I've always been a huge fan of puppets, and things like that, I'm a huge lifelong Muppets fan, and some of my favorite movies and shows are Farscape, Dark Crystal, and The Never-Ending Story, and one of my favorite parts of them is all of the puppet creatures.
Ironically, one of the most consistent things that actors who work with puppet characters like The Muppets or other Henson creations say, is that half the time they'd forget they were even puppets.
I've always been a huge fan of puppets, and things like that, I'm a huge lifelong Muppets fan, and some of my favorite movies and shows are Farscape, Dark Crystal, and The Never-Ending Story, and one of my favorite parts of them is all of the puppet creatures.
You're right. I'm sick and loaded up on medication and did my math badly.
I'm sure they'll get the laws changed.
I don't expect that. We're already a few years into Mickey Mouse cartoons entering the public domain. Disney seems to be fine with that.
Don't math on drugs, kids.
Right. I expect that if people start creating derivative works that are actually in competition with recent, still-copyrighted material, the corporations will try to throw up roadblocks. But keeping the original works themselves copyrighted doesn’t seem to be a priority anymore.
Don't forget that it will also be 100% AI-generated slop.
But who knows, maybe it'll be a distraction from the 50°C temperatures and the lack of potable water.
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