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mickey says TRANS RIGHTS!
Y'all aren't doing public domain right.
THIS is how you do public domain.
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Why DVDs are better than streaming services.
Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"
Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
We're trying to give the Public Domain ninja shooting game a story mode on Kickstarter!
It would really mean the world to me, Wilson T. - the actual dude behind the computer - if you would give the trailer a watch and maybe pledge to our campaign.
Thank you so much!
October is #BatAppreciationMonth! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ernst-haeckel-s-bats-1904
In celebration of steamboat Willie coming into public domain, I made some totally original characters: Will and Petey!
Will is the captain of the S.S WILLIE (he named it after himself)! He’s pretty infamous for being petty, grumpy, and generally rude to almost everyone that he meets. He also has barely any social whatsoever, other than talking to his brother.
Petey on the other hand is the newest (and only other) crew mate! He loves his job and takes it very seriously, so much so that it usually gets him into a bunch of trouble (and Will has to get him out of it)
What kinda trouble you may ask?
Oh, you know… just your usual.
Sea monsters.
Pirates.
Angry customers.
Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"
Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
Happy public domain day!
Look I know I don't have, like, followers on here but I wanna spread this thing wherever I can.
I'm adding Mickey Mouse to my game the literal instant I can legally do so and I thought that was funny. Check it out on Steam or show your friends so they can find out that Mickey's inaugural project into the public domain won't be a shitty slasher movie.
Link to the Steam page here.
I just found out that my favorite Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, is in the public domain
🙃
Which do you prefer? Black & White or colored? (I made both models anyway cuz I wanted to)
Remember kiddos, you’re allowed to make your own adaptations of stuff, not every other adaptation of a thing besides the big popular one is a mock buster (and tbh I think the concept of calling a “mock buster” or something of the like is stupid and reinforces the “graveyard of ideas” bs, also saying only one version of a story is aloud to exist), and just because one is the big popular version does not make it the definitive version.
Also, adaptations are not inherently the same as remakes and/or reboots (literally has to explain this to someone once, but unfortunately they were legit not listening at all and were being intentionally obtuse)
Just some shit for y’all
People literally calling the Public Domain a graveyard have no clue what they're talking about. Without the Public Domain, most of your beloved childhood Disney movies literally would not have been made, because they are literally based on stories that were in the Public Domain.
Please unlearn capitalistic propaganda before you go saying things like "the public domain is the graveyard of ideas". Literally the only people that benefits are giant corporations like Disney who don't want you using the Public Domain like they have been this whole damn time.
Happy “Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse has entered the public domain” day to all who celebrate
Girl, is it rush hour? cause the traffic in that gridlock pic sure is big
In mortal engines, there’s a reference made about the mouse gods that 21st century North Americans worshiped.
…
anyways this makes me laugh. Ya know Disney maybe folks wouldn’t be so quick to make fun if you weren’t such jerks about copyright and in general
Did anyone else notice steamboat Mickey and Oswald the lucky rabbit are both in the public domain? Because I did :) to celebrate I drew this!
Description under cut
Description of drawing: [ID: Two digital drawings showing Oswald the lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse. Oswald is drawn as monochrome blue, with dark blue fur, grey shorts, and a white face and gloves. Mickey has dark red almost black fur, grey pants, white shoes and gloves, and a grey, white, and grey-red cap. The buttons on his shorts, gloves, and the blush on his cheeks are grey-red.
In the first drawing, Oswald is posed looking at the camera with a frown, while Mickey seems to be saying something to him, leaning forward with one hand on his hip and the other held up to gesture.
In the second, the two are sitting on invisible chairs, Mickey surrounded by hearts and holding his face in his hands with a lovesick expression, his thin tail crimped into a heart shape at the end, while Oswald looks over, looking shocked, sweating nervously.
Top corner signature: juni Oleary 2024
((Special thanks to @describe-things for reminding me to add a drawing description! ^^ this is there description they said I could use ((but I tweaked it a little))
THIS!! read this!!
Here's something Disney desperately does not want anyone to know:
When you create your own original design for Mickey Mouse now that he's Public Domain, you now own that version of Mickey Mouse.
This is the same reason that Disney owns their versions of Rapunzel, Cinderella, Briar Rose, and more, even though these characters came from the Public Domain.
If you make an original design for Mickey Mouse, it belongs to you. You own the copyright. Disney cannot use that design for profit unless they get your permission and/or pay you. The exact same way you can't use Disney's version of Cinderella for profit.
Copyright goes both ways, despite what the billionaires who run megacorporations want you to think. They rely on you thinking of them as all powerful and unstoppable. But the rules do in fact apply to them too. They are not all-powerful. They're not invincible. They're greedy, lying bastards who rely on your hopeless fear.
Have hope, be bold, go forth and create with joy.
Edit because I remembered another example:
This is also why you're not supposed to show writers your fanfiction for their series! Even though you are writing fanfiction, and the characters belong to their creator, what you have written belongs to you! Writers do not want to accidentally steal from you by incorporating your fanfiction into the official material, because that does genuinely open them up to lawsuits! They're taking your ideas and profiting off them!
Wow, it's like being given the Beast's Library! *sighs & collapses into a chair, o'erwhelmed* Thank you.
This is a masterpost of Gothic literature, a genre popular in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe (and to a lesser extent in America), which combined horror, fantasy, and Romanticism. The list is organised by genre and date. All texts are public-domain and are available online via the links provided. Happy reading, and feel free to ask if there’s anything you’d like me to add.
Novels and Novellas:
Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (1764)
Friedrich Schiller: The Ghost-Seer (1781)
Anne Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
Matthew Gregory Louis: The Monk (1796)
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1818)
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (parody, 1818)
John William Polidori: The Vampyre (1819)
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847)
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Edgar Allen Poe: The Light-House (unfinished, 1849)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla (1872)
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Theodor Storm: The Rider on the White Horse (1888)
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897)
Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera (1911)
H.P. Lovecraft: The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936)
Short Stories:
Washington Irving: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820)
Edgar Allen Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), "The Man of the Crowd" (1840), "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842), "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842-1843), "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) [You can find a complete index of Poe’s works here.]
Robert W. Chambers: The King in Yellow (short story collection, 1895)
H.P. Lovecraft: “The Moon-Bog" (1926), "The Music of Erich Zann" (1922), "Herbert West - Reanimator" (1922), "The Lurking Fear" (1923), "The Rats in the Walls" (1924), "The Dunwich Horror" (1929) [You can find a complete index of Lovecraft’s works here.]
Poetry:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798), "Christabel" (1800)
John Keats: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (1819), "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" (1820)
Edgar Allen Poe: “Lenore" (1843), "The Raven" (1845), "Annabel Lee" (1849)
Emily Bronte: “A Death-Scene" (1846), "Honour’s Martyr" (1846)