User:Opencooper/20th-century black hole
The "20th-century black hole" refers to the gap in the public domain caused by overly restrictive copyright laws that came to affect works published since that time period.[a] The term, coined by librarians, was first used in a general publication[1] in a 2009 Financial Times article by James Boyle.[2] The black hole particularly affects cultural institutions that have to preserve and make available collections that are still in copyright.
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Notes[edit]
- ^ Generally post-1923 in the United States (prior to the copyright thaw that began on January 1, 2019).
References[edit]
- ^ Fallon, Julia. "The missing decades: the 20th century black hole in Europeana". europeana pro. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ Boyle, James. "A copyright black hole swallows our culture". Financial Times. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
External links[edit]
- https://www.ft.com/content/6811a9d4-9b0f-11de-a3a1-00144feabdc0?mhq5j=e3
- https://pro.europeana.eu/post/the-missing-decades-the-20th-century-black-hole-in-europeana
- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151009/17031332490/digital-orphans-massive-cultural-black-hole-our-horizon.shtml
- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151116/17303032828/more-evidence-how-copyright-makes-culture-disappear-giant-black-hole.shtml
- https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-hole-in-our-collective-memory-how-copyright-made-mid-century-books-vanish/278209/
- http://www.intellectualpropertymagazine.com/copyright/stop-20th-century-black-hole-for-orphan-works-says-us-copyright-office-director-108311.htm
- https://books.google.com/books?id=btxWPtKokDIC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=20th+century+black+hole+copyright