Whitney Bigelow, The Daily Universe; Film and music festival celebrates student creatives and public domain
"Student filmmakers and musicians walked away from Wednesday night’s
Public Domain Film and Music Festival with over $3000 in cash prizes.
The festival was put on by the BYU Copyright Licensing Office.
Students had 48 hours to create a film based on one of ten pieces of
literature from 1924 that entered the public domain at the start of this
year. Entries in the music category were given audio recordings from
that same year to incorporate into their compositions.
The winner of the evening’s prestigious Best Picture award and $1,000
was a group of students called RHEEL Productions, including Heather
Moser, Avery Marshall, Laura Marshall and Emma Spears. Their entry was a
dramatic short film entitled “What’ll I Do,” based on the 1924 novel
“Some Do Not” by Ford Madox Ford."
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Freed From Copyright, These Classic Works Are Yours To Adapt; NPR, January 5, 2019
Milton Guevara, NPR; Freed From Copyright, These Classic Works Are Yours To Adapt
""Copyright has been overextended so many times, largely at the behest of major copyright holders," says author Naomi Novik. "Even though what that actually does is inhibit people from creating new works and sharing these older works." Novik is a founding member of the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit that focuses on preserving fan fiction and art — that is, work created by fans, based on characters and worlds from their favorite written works, film, and TV, which can occasionally come into conflict with copyright law.
"For a character to live, that character has to belong to the audience," says Novik. "Works of art are meant to nourish our collective understanding; they're meant to nourish our conversation."
Duke Law's entire list of works that entered the public domain this year can be found here."
""Copyright has been overextended so many times, largely at the behest of major copyright holders," says author Naomi Novik. "Even though what that actually does is inhibit people from creating new works and sharing these older works." Novik is a founding member of the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit that focuses on preserving fan fiction and art — that is, work created by fans, based on characters and worlds from their favorite written works, film, and TV, which can occasionally come into conflict with copyright law.
"For a character to live, that character has to belong to the audience," says Novik. "Works of art are meant to nourish our collective understanding; they're meant to nourish our conversation."
Duke Law's entire list of works that entered the public domain this year can be found here."
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