Apparently all works from 1929 entered the public domain starting in January 1st 2025:
Name some latest top Public Domain Movies
Submitted 4 weeks ago by mindgames@lemm.ee to movies@lemm.ee
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zabadoh@ani.social 4 weeks ago
NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
Battleship Potemkin
Nanook of the North
I was reading wikipedia articles on “greatest movies” and both of those were uploaded in full. They’re not very “latest” though
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
And by latest do you mean recently made PD?
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Anyway, I am uploading some here:
video.infosec.exchange/a/emperor/
You can subscribe to them on here via:
- !publicdomainaction@video.infosec.exchange
- !publicdomainanimation@video.infosec.exchange
- !publicdomaincomedy@video.infosec.exchange
- !publicdomainhorror@video.infosec.exchange
- !publicdomainscifi@video.infosec.exchange
However, we’ve experimented with them and they aren’t currently drawing over new videos into Lemmy, and @flamingos@feddit.uk has figured out why so we should be getting that fixed.
Of the ones I updated I’d flag up:
- Steamboat Willy - just became PD this year and means that version of Mickey Mouse is now free to use, at least initially that means in crappy horror films.
- Laurel and Hardy: Battle of the Century - once thought to be lost except for the custard pie fight (which my Dad was a big fan of), the bulk of it has been found and it is all now PD.
Would folks be interested in a “public domain film” community? I’ve pondered starting one.
flamingos@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
The fix has been merged, but it hasn’t been backported to the 0.19 branch yet. It’s been brought up in another issue and it should be fairly simple to backport (most of the code isn’t even relevant for the 0.19 branch), so I’ll try to do that for Lemmy 0.19.12.
zabadoh@ani.social 4 weeks ago
Wikipedia to the rescue!
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_films_in_the_public_do…
You can sort the table by release year.
Apparently Debbie Does Dallas is now public domain!