Public Domain Any Forums

>An author's work may be put into the public domain... unless the publisher re-publishes the work.
This HAS to be incorrect somehow. Otherwise, their copyright law is even more draconian than fucking Mexico's.
Publishers can keep the rights to any remotely-popular series FOREVER with just a simple reprint? Who the hell thought this one up? At least in the US you can only get around it with different permutations of characters and settings (so that when Steamboat Willie becomes PD, it's only going to be THAT black&white version of Mickey that'll be free). Un-fucking-believable.

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>Sato is not making his work copyright-free
Not public domain

Yeah, that's fucked up, guess only unpopular/niche manga and anime will become PD.

>Publishers can keep the rights to any remotely-popular series FOREVER with just a simple reprint?
This is far better than just sitting on it. In fact, my own take on when copyright should expire requires consistent and reasonable availability after ten years, and caps out at twenty.

Also, Mickey is trademarked, Steamboat Willie will be free to distribute and modify but only Steamboat Willie.

Journey to the West is public domain, and was a direct inspiration.

In the US at least they would own the copyright on that derivative work, but the original version's copyright would expire enabling others to similarly create derivative works.
Its probably the same deal in Japan, so if the publisher create a new version with higher quality prints, extra content, etc that would be a new work, but the copyright on the original wouldn't be re-established.
So if you wanted the public domain version you'd have to go back to the original, you wouldn't be able to take the updated version.

>Mickey is trademarked
and that's retarded. Characters or real life persons shouldn't be trademarks.
Not even the Church trademarked Jesus.

To be fair, Moslem tried to trademark Mohammad.

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Nah, public domain in Japan for works owned/created by authors is 70 years after the death of the author, not after publication. After publication is only for stuff owned by companies.

So, for example, Super Sentai will go public domain in 2049 due to Battle Fever J coming out in 1979 and being owned by Toei, with an actual author, but Goranger, the actual first Super Sentai, will remain under copyright until 2068, 70 years after Ishinomori's death.

Go Nagai isn't even dead yet, so it will take a long time for Devilman to go public domain. Most people here won't even be alive by then.

When will Lupin be PD?

Pretty sure that part is wrong, looking at the Japanese page. It's 70 years from the death of the author, if created by a natural person, but 70 years from (original) publication if it's done by a company. Whoever was writing the English page mixed both together.

They even extended the date from 50 to 70 years fairly recently, which would be pointless if they could eternally extend copyright already.