this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2024
405 points (97.9% liked)

Data is Beautiful

2366 readers
1 users here now

Be respectful

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
KnowledgeIsPower@mander.xyz
Beaver@lemmy.ca
WanderingPhoenix@mander.xyz
405
The Next Characters to Enter the Public Domain (www.visualcapitalist.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz
60 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/next-characters-to-enter-the-public-domain/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In any case it's not like after it expires you could not trade on being the original. It's not like others could then come along and claim to have been the original creator. And if you kept making works those would each get their own period of copyright.