Happy Public Domain Day!

Seventy years after their respective deaths, the works of - Alfred Stieglitz, US-American photographer, see here- Alfred Rosenberg, Baltic German philosopher, ideologue of the Nazi Party - Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist and novelist, Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1912 - Gertrude Stein, US-American novelist, poet, playwright, wrote one of the first "coming out stories" - H. G. Wells, Engish "father of science fiction" (The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds) - John Maynard Keynes, British economist, co-inventor of the Bretton Woods system - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter and photographer - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer - Patty Hill, co-composer "Happy Birthday to You", which led to a lot of copyright issues- Paul Lincke, German composer and theater conductor, "father" of the Berlin operetta and composer of the (unofficial) Berlin anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnLxfoDJtTs

and many more finally became public domain today.

Public Domain Day also reminds us of the over-extended copyright periods that harm culture in favour of benefit for few. Copyright should, similar to patents, term 20 years after publication instead of 70 years (rounded, so this can go up to almost 71 years) after creators death.

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Alfred Stieglitz