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Baphometa
12/14/24 4:16:12 PM
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80/80
Other notable works include:

Literature:
  • "The Sound of Fury" by Faulkner
  • "A Room of One's Own" by Woolf
  • "The Maltese Falcon" by Hammet
  • "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Remarque
Movies:
  • more Mickey Mouse cartoons, now including his gloves and voice
  • "The Skeleton Dance" - the first Silly Symphony
  • several Oswald shorts
Characters:
  • Tintin
  • Buck Rogers (technically already copyright free, despite disputes)
  • more Sherlock Holmes features
Music:
  • "Rhapsody in Blue" recording by Gershwin
  • "Nobody Knows the Trouble Ive Seen" recording by Anderson
  • "Singin in the Rain" by Freed and Brown
  • "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" by Dubin and Burke
Art:
  • several notable and NSFW pieces by Dal
And many many more.
https://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-2025/
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

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Stabwound
12/14/24 4:17:32 PM
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Cant wait for all the shitty horror interpretations!

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ArkhamOrigins
12/14/24 4:17:47 PM
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Stabwound posted...
Cant wait for all the shitty horror interpretations!


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Tom_Joad
12/14/24 4:18:46 PM
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https://youtu.be/SVKKRzemX_w

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Zikten
12/14/24 4:30:18 PM
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Stabwound posted...
Cant wait for all the shitty horror interpretations!
Popeye is already on his way

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BB_mofo
12/14/24 4:33:32 PM
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Baphometa posted...
more Sherlock Holmes features

This should be interesting. Original stories using Sherlock Holmes depict him as an asshole because only his early stories were in the public domain. Now that even more of his stories are in the public domain, his depiction might change to more resemble how he appears in the overall books.

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Robot2600
12/14/24 4:34:11 PM
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they really trickle out the VC releases these days

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Sonic_Cannon
12/14/24 4:46:38 PM
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Zikten posted...
Popeye is already on his way

https://youtu.be/CGO32Zmh2YI?si=7iroDFzyB1RzkXIt
LMAO they could possibly still get sued for this actually

While Popeye 1.0 had superhuman capabilities, he did not derive his strength from eating spinach until 1932.
Need to wait 3 more years for the spinach tie-in to be totally safe

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vycebrand2
12/14/24 5:01:20 PM
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The current version of Mickey mouse is protected anyway. As long as they still use him and make new material. That era starts mid 30's

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rick_alverado
12/14/24 5:12:43 PM
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BB_mofo posted...
This should be interesting. Original stories using Sherlock Holmes depict him as an asshole because only his early stories were in the public domain. Now that even more of his stories are in the public domain, his depiction might change to more resemble how he appears in the overall books.

I think "features" is being used there to refer to films, as the last of the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became public domain a year or two ago.
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Tyranthraxus
12/14/24 5:15:29 PM
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Miyamoto should take the opportunity to make one last Popeye game before he retires.

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Kisai
12/14/24 5:26:15 PM
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Stabwound posted...
Cant wait for all the shitty horror interpretations!
Why would it be horror? I can see Winnie The Pooh because of the "omg, what if we took something traditionally child-friendly and made it DARK?" but Popeye already had violence. I'd say just make it a Batman Begins-style "gritty realistic reboot" or like John Wick where Popeye is out for revenge against the city's criminals after Olive gets kidnapped. Horror doesn't fit Popeye, action does.

Tyranthraxus posted...
Miyamoto should take the opportunity to make one last Popeye game before he retires.
That would be hilarious. It's still insane to think about how different the gaming world would be if they actually got the rights to Popeye.

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yusiko
12/14/24 5:34:32 PM
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betty boop hits the public domain in 2026 and im looking forward to the terrible betty boop slasher

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ShaneMcComez
12/14/24 5:36:50 PM
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I want a movie where Popeye takes down the Trump administration.

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Irony
12/14/24 5:37:54 PM
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ShaneMcComez posted...
I want a movie where Popeye takes down the Trump administration.
Tax on spinach? I don't think so

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MacadamianNut3
12/14/24 5:42:59 PM
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Wake up babe, Mickey Mouse impressions are legal hAhA

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UnholyMudcrab
12/14/24 5:54:08 PM
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Kisai posted...
Why would it be horror? I can see Winnie The Pooh because of the "omg, what if we took something traditionally child-friendly and made it DARK?" but Popeye already had violence. I'd say just make it a Batman Begins-style "gritty realistic reboot" or like John Wick where Popeye is out for revenge against the city's criminals after Olive gets kidnapped. Horror doesn't fit Popeye, action does.
It's always horror (and specifically slasher horror) because they can be made with whatever spare change you found under the couch cushions that day.

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Irony
12/14/24 5:55:02 PM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
It's always horror (and specifically slasher horror) because they can be made with whatever spare change you found under the couch cushions that day.
What are you talking about they can totally make a romance for cheaper than horror

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Foppe
12/14/24 5:57:08 PM
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Kisai posted...
Why would it be horror?
We got at least three Popeye slasher in the works.

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LightSnake
12/14/24 5:59:33 PM
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Foppe posted...
We got at least three Popeye slasher in the works.

it's so dumb because that's the most boring thing you can DO with Popeye

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Irony
12/14/24 6:00:30 PM
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Tbf slasher is just a genre, he'll probably be punching.

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Tyranthraxus
12/14/24 6:36:10 PM
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ShaneMcComez posted...
I want a movie where Popeye takes down the Trump administration.

Popeye punches Trump so hard he turns into 4 aces, 4 kings, 4 queens, and one jack.

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rick_alverado
12/14/24 6:49:54 PM
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I actually have an idea for a series within my fictional universe that would each year take advantage of works entering the public domain.

So basically, within my universe there is an organization that existed for a couple thousand years, from the founding of Rome until 1985. Originally it was basically a secret police within Rome, but it fairly early grew into a worldwide organization dedicated to protecting humanity from threats both internal and external. It's various members over the years would be a mix of historical characters (like Leonardo da Vinci), mythological characters (like Remus), public domain fictional characters (like Dracula), and characters of my own creation (like Hiroshi Tanaka).

Anyway, I have an idea for an ongoing series of short stories that jumps around to different times to tell different stories of the group, but one story each year would be set during the year of stuff that became public domain that year. So if I was already doing this series, in 2025 there would be a story set in 1929 and include characters that were introduced that year like Popeye and Buck Rogers (well, probably not Buck Rogers, since his stories are set in the future, but whatever). It would have other characters as well, of course, as it's not like this organization would have just reset its membership every year, but I would probably use those newly public domain characters as the viewpoint characters.

Of course, this would require me to be writing more consistently, which would require me to get my life under better control, but it's a fun idea.
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bigtiggie23
12/14/24 6:51:16 PM
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Singin' in the Rain of Blood, coming Halloween 2025.

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vycebrand2
12/14/24 7:51:32 PM
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rick_alverado posted...
I actually have an idea for a series within my fictional universe that would each year take advantage of works entering the public domain.

So basically, within my universe there is an organization that existed for a couple thousand years, from the founding of Rome until 1985. Originally it was basically a secret police within Rome, but it fairly early grew into a worldwide organization dedicated to protecting humanity from threats both internal and external. It's various members over the years would be a mix of historical characters (like Leonardo da Vinci), mythological characters (like Remus), public domain fictional characters (like Dracula), and characters of my own creation (like Hiroshi Tanaka).

Anyway, I have an idea for an ongoing series of short stories that jumps around to different times to tell different stories of the group, but one story each year would be set during the year of stuff that became public domain that year. So if I was already doing this series, in 2025 there would be a story set in 1929 and include characters that were introduced that year like Popeye and Buck Rogers (well, probably not Buck Rogers, since his stories are set in the future, but whatever). It would have other characters as well, of course, as it's not like this organization would have just reset its membership every year, but I would probably use those newly public domain characters as the viewpoint characters.

Of course, this would require me to be writing more consistently, which would require me to get my life under better control, but it's a fun idea.
So a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but expanded.

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WingsOfGood
12/14/24 7:53:09 PM
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Baphometa posted...
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Remarque

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Turbam
12/14/24 8:06:11 PM
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Popeye as a slasher villain kinda works, because he himself is practically an eldritch god that actually can't be stopped. Even if he's "killed", he can be fine if he eats his spinach.
Hell, even if he is completely erased from existence, he comes right back because he ate spinach.

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rick_alverado
12/14/24 8:07:56 PM
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vycebrand2 posted...
So a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but expanded.

There are definitely some things in common, and it may have been one of the things to inspire me when I first created this organization...2ish decades ago, if I recall correctly. Although my experience with League of Extraordinary Gentleman is limited to the movie, I have not read any of the comics.
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ShaneMcComez
12/14/24 8:41:42 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Popeye punches Trump so hard he turns into 4 aces, 4 kings, 4 queens, and one jack.
Popeye punches Stephen Miller so hard. The racism leaves his body and he becomes a decent human being.

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NatsuSama
12/14/24 8:47:19 PM
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Baphometa posted...
more Mickey Mouse cartoons, now including his gloves and voice
I bid anyone good luck on this one.

I'm pretty the Mouse is the main reason "public domain" laws became tricky in the first place.

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rick_alverado
12/14/24 8:51:53 PM
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NatsuSama posted...
I bid anyone good luck on this one.

I'm pretty the Mouse is the main reason "public domain" laws became tricky in the first place.

Disney did indeed play a big part in how much copyright was extended. If you know what you're doing it should be pretty easy to limit yourself to using Mickey Mouse how he was in the public domain years, and if so you should be fine. However one of the biggest thing I have learned from being on the internet is that when it comes to copyright (and other intellectual property law) most people don't know what they are doing.
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creativerealms
12/14/24 8:52:12 PM
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That explains all the Popeye horror films set to release early next year.

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Tyranthraxus
12/14/24 9:25:43 PM
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ShaneMcComez posted...
Popeye punches Stephen Miller so hard. The racism leaves his body and he becomes a decent human being.
No he's still a huge asshole just not racist. Popeye needs to punch him a few more times before he gets to decent human being

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