• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 months ago

    Too late for copyright laws, it’s in the public domain and can’t go back afaik. Now trademark laws can be interesting.

    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Actually SCOTUS ruled that extending the copyright pulls it out of public domain in Golan v Holder. Congress passed a law that put some literary and musical works back into copyright from the public domain. A case was brought by some educators and musicians that the removal of these works from the public domain infri get on their free speech, but the Court disagreed 6-2.