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I just published a public domain book on amazon kdp. Since then I have come across information that reviews will automatically get added into your book version. Can you explain how this happens? Thank you
Based on a delightful post about someone's infernal take, "Public domain is useless". So infernal, I just wonder why someone thought "public domain bad" was a good idea to post here. There's opinions, and then there's being salty when people have made an Alice in Wonderland adaptation over the years.
Hell, there's even historical and mythological stuff like Mulan and Hercules. While Disney's original characters + versions of these stories are still under their copyright, these original stories they adapt change over the years, so they technically also adapted Winnie the Pooh and Bambi.
Anyway, people should read pinned posts before they make more infernal takes. And realize the movies of their childhood ARE off of stories in public domain. Also probably why you'd see Arthurian legends, Frankenstein and Dracula everywhere.
P.S.: Found out the guy who made the "hot take" is a corporate shill, so he's absolutely miserable. Shout out to this one comment though that is the best response.
Exactly, I made a post in response to an infernal post with the same vibes. Public Domain is needed....but the copyright laws need to be reformed in an equitable manner so that more can open up.
There is a guy (I'm pretty sure it's the same guy, anyway) who appears on multiple q&a sites under different names, always spewing his hatred of the public domain.
I suspect the "Public Domain is Useless" post is just one more example of his work. It resembles comments made by "NeverEatShreddedWheat" on this subreddit a few months back (now deleted), and NESW was making the same arguments as a guy I debated on Quora about a year ago (also now deleted).
Basically he has two big arguments:
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Characters don't enter the public domain with their works, because they are ideas that are not copyrightable, and are protected by trademark (no matter how they're actually used).
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The only works that should enter the public domain at all are works of natural authors (i.e., not for hire) and defunct companies.
So from what I am to understand about public domain comes from Google -
The public domain is a category of creative works that are not protected by intellectual property laws. This includes copyright, trademark, or patent laws. The public owns these works, not the individual author or artist.
I was interested in an HP lovecraft project that I wanted to publish because as I am to understand his works are copyright free. Then I come across this interview where a director claims to "own" the re-animator films.
https://youtu.be/dD-xB5xMQmQ?si=X6KzhhLaz7wAN1QC
Can somebody explain what he is claiming to own? What assets are legally his that I'm not allowed to touch?
In addition to advantages, are there any disadvantages related to the public domain? Like, its possibility to flood the market with potentially low quality material?
If a book was published in 1924 and then renewed in 1952 when would it enter the Public Domain?
When ever the idea of copyright law comes up people bring up going into the public domain as it getting loss in a dark forest of suck for an eternity. But that’s not how it works.
Nothing stops something from continuing to work with a public domain property just that anyone else can also work with it.
When people say that “once it’s in the public domain it means that people can make shit with it. Like those shitty horror films”
Like being under copyright doesn’t stop things like that from happening. Warner Brothers released that Banana Splits FNAF ripoff movie as the proper rights owner.
Also of course the cheap shit riding on the fact they can use something like Micky Mouse legally gets made first. Making good art takes time and effort.
The idea that you need to protect the honor of Micky Mouse or Captain Marvel is so fucking stupid. Being under the lock and key of a huge corporation doesn’t mean they are “safe” from “desecration” whatever that is.
Not to mention when in the public domain anyone can make their own version of it.
Which means no “cannon”.
Hello, I'm doing some research and would've loved to pull Public Domain Review's photos on Flickr here — https://www.flickr.com/photos/publicdomainreview/ — except things I search for give me few to no results. Am I doing something wrong?
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After a few month trial we have decided to allow general posts requesting Public Domain Alternatives again. We noticed a tick down in people actually getting a response to their requests in the larger master thread, so we wanted to work to have people get the replies they wanted. We do recommend that you attempt to search for similar inquiries to your question before posting again.
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Do people like this just not understand that the foundation of just about everything they've ever experienced was available to them because of public domain?
I can't seem to wrap my head around thinking like this kind of thinking.