Picture this: Kermit in period-specific 1920s dress, playing the mysterious host to a huge party in West Egg. Or Miss Piggy, decked out in flapper regalia, in an abusive relationship with Fozzie Bear as her cruel, philandering husband, Tom Buchanan. There’s obvious aesthetic charms to The Muppets version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel, but beyond that, The Muppets’ takes on classic stories are often better. Writers for Bright Wall/Dark Room and The Guardian have made compelling cases for The Muppet Christmas Carol as the best adaptation of Charles Dickens’ work and I can’t imagine it would be any different for The Great Gatsby.
On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 will enter the US public domain, where they will be free for all to use and build upon. These works include books such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, and Franz Kafka’s The Trial (in the original German), silent films featuring Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, and music ranging from the jazz standard Sweet Georgia Brown to songs by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, W.C. Handy, and Fats Waller.
Something that never made sense to me, why do all these works enter the public domain on January 1st as opposed to like a rolling release? Like if I publish some kind of copyrightable work on New...
Something that never made sense to me, why do all these works enter the public domain on January 1st as opposed to like a rolling release? Like if I publish some kind of copyrightable work on New Year's Eve, do I effectively lose like an entire year of copyright protection? I mean, with current copyright terms, another year is basically a drop in the bucket, but it still seems illogical to me.
We deserve The Muppet Great Gatsby
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Something that never made sense to me, why do all these works enter the public domain on January 1st as opposed to like a rolling release? Like if I publish some kind of copyrightable work on New Year's Eve, do I effectively lose like an entire year of copyright protection? I mean, with current copyright terms, another year is basically a drop in the bucket, but it still seems illogical to me.
My guess is that it’s easier from a logistical and practical perspective.
Seven Chances (1925), starring Buster Keaton,. T. Roy Barnes, and Ruth Dwyer.