Popeye, Tintin and more will enter the public domain in the new year (www.npr.org)
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MurrayL@lemmy.world on 27 Dec 2024 11:18 next collapse

As always, the headline should be qualified with ‘… in the USA.’

Tintin the brave cub reporter — and his dog, Snowy — will enter the public domain in the U.S. well before they will in the European Union, where they are copyrighted until 2054. That’s because EU copyright terms extend 70 years past creators’ deaths, and Belgian cartoonist Hergé died in 1983.

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca on 27 Dec 2024 17:10 collapse

How does that work anyway? Would any American public domain usages of the characters be banned from release in the EU?

josefo@leminal.space on 27 Dec 2024 17:30 collapse

Or, they have to pay royalties to the owners there?

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca on 27 Dec 2024 17:51 collapse

That definitely makes more sense. Admitedly I didn’t put much thought into it

TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee on 27 Dec 2024 12:13 next collapse

Jenkins says there are already three Popeye slasher flicks in the works.

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SpaceFox@lemmy.ml on 27 Dec 2024 19:10 collapse

I can’t wait for all the shitty horror movies that will be made 🙄

sawdustprophet@midwest.social on 27 Dec 2024 21:25 next collapse

Popeye vs Tintin vs Pooh

Actually that’s such a ridiculous concept I might watch it.

[deleted] on 29 Dec 2024 01:40 collapse

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SpaceFox@lemmy.ml on 30 Dec 2024 04:57 collapse

These movies may as well be made on a conveyor belt.