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@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ This is not a trivial question, firstly because the term *public domain* is not
Corporations and [capitalism](capitalism.md) are highly hostile towards public domain and try to destroy it, make it effectively non-existing, as to eliminate "free" works competing with the consumerist creations of the industry. Over many years they have pushes towards creating laws that make it extremely difficult and rare for works to fall into public domain.
Sadly due to these shitty laws most works created in latest decades are NOT in the public domain because of the [copyright](copyright.md) [cancer](cancer.md): copyright is granted automatically, without any registration or fee, to the author of any shitty artistic creation, and its term lasts mostly for **the whole life of the author plus 70 year!** In some countries this is life + 100 years. In the US, copyright lasts 96 years from the publication of the work (every January 1st there is so called public domain day celebrating new works entering the US public domain). In some countries it is not even possible to legally waive (give up) one's copyright. And to make matters worse, copyright isn't the only possible restriction of an intellectual work, there are also [patents](patent.md), [trademarks](trademark.md) and other kinds of [intellectual property](intellectual_property.md).
Sadly due to these shitty laws most works created in latest decades are NOT in the public domain because of the [copyright](copyright.md) [cancer](cancer.md): copyright is granted automatically, without any registration or fee, to the author of any shitty artistic creation, and its term lasts mostly for **the whole life of the author plus 70 years!** In some countries this is life + 100 years. In the US, copyright lasts 96 years from the publication of the work (every January 1st there is so called public domain day celebrating new works entering the US public domain). In some countries it is not even possible to legally waive (give up) one's copyright. And to make matters worse, copyright isn't the only possible restriction of an intellectual work, there are also [patents](patent.md), [trademarks](trademark.md) and other kinds of [intellectual property](intellectual_property.md).
Another bad news is that works in a **"weak" public domain**, i.e. most recent PD works or works that entered PD by some obscure little law, may as well stop being PD by introducing some shitty retroactive law (which has happened). So one may not be feeling completely safe going crazy by utilizing some recent PD works.