[Clipart] Public domain now screwed

[Greg Bulmash]

For one thing, this only applies to foreign works that were in the
Public Domain because their foreign copyrights were treated
differently than U.S. copyrighted works. Popeye doesn't go back into
Copyright protection. OTOH, you either have to draw Popeye yourself or
take an image from a PD work, because newer copyrighted illustrations
and cartoons are still protected individually, even if the character
has fallen out of copyright.

Where it's problematic is not in new uses where one tries to determine
the PD status of a work, but in prior uses that were previously legal.
If you don't have detailed records on the origin and provenance of
every PD work you've ever used, anything containing PD stuff could be
a potential landmine.

- Greg

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Seb <sebastien.lanteigne at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here. We can all stop debating, at least about Popeye and other art that is
> no longer copyrighted. Apparently congress can just decide to put it back
> under copyright. Even if it's already being used un public domain.
>
> Terrible News: Court Says It's Okay To Remove Content From The Public Domain
> And Put It Back Under Copyright
>
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100621/2320049908.shtml
>
>
> This is indeed terrible news.
>
> Seb.
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