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  • Godort@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlshould anything be copyrightable?
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    11 months ago

    Copyright is a good thing in general, but the way it’s handled now is incredibly stupid.

    The US had it right in 1790. 14 years by default and an additional 14 year renewal. After that it’s public domain.

    28 years is more than enough time to profit from a creative work before other people can use those ideas freely.

    Imagine the creative landscape if every piece of art older than 1995 was free for everyone to use as they saw fit.










  • It was a common issue with anime localization in the 90s, especially when it came to media for children.

    The “jelly donuts” from pokemon were actually onigiri, but the translators thought that American children wouldn’t know what a rice ball was, so they just called them jelly donuts.

    In Sailor Moon’s case, the network would not let them show a full-out lesbian couple in a cartoon for children, so they were rewritten in the dub to be cousins instead. Standard 90s homophobia aside, that one was especially egregious because you could very clearly tell they had a romantic relationship, so it just made them look like incestuous lesbians instead.