Someone is crowdfunding a project to make a story of Steamboat Willie's Mickey Mouse meets Popeye the Sailor, basing it all on Public Domain on Indiegogo. Its called "Wiley Mouse: In The Land That Never Was" it features Mickey, Popeye and an assortment of other Public Domain characters, done is a amazing art style that feels both old and new at the same time. I have nothing to do with it, but I think its cool and a perfect example of why the Public Domain is awesome.
I was just thinking how much public domain potential popeye has, with so many people comparing his cartoons with Shonen battle anime, he would work so well in comics and animated shows/ movies
I mean it's also a minefaild as steamboat whilly and Popeye are still very much copyriten... It's just that one tiny bit of media isn't... So they must only show the media in question anbd CAN'T be confused with the current copywriten stuff... So yeah 100% if someone were to comercally use the Legio set version of Steam boat whilly or any 0other copyrighted materal they could be in deep trouble... So yeah I would never make a comercal game with a currently copyrighted IP even ifsome of it was public dpomian... Just a minefield like legelly reverse enggering oatanted stuff...
One thing to note with tintin is that he has only come into public domain in the US as in europe where it was originally published the copyright follows the 70 years after the death of the author rule. Hergé only died in 1983 so it won't become public domain in europe (and anywhere else that follows the same laws) until 2053.
So if you released a video game featuring Tintin, it would be banned in the EU because it violates copyright laws? Will they track all violations that have been released on UA-cam?
@@jacobhargiss3839 Tintin copyright holders are know for being pretty strict with their IP. Anyone publishing a video on Tintin using US public domain law should be very careful that the video is not available in Europe (there is geo-restriction settings available on UA-cam).
Nintendo can finally make their Popeye arcade game! They had to invent some red wearing Italian plumber as a main character for their jump man arcade game.
Title: Spinach & Thorns Genre: Dark Drama/Thriller Pitch: In a grim port town, Popeye is no longer the hero of old-he’s a bitter, broken man, once full of potential but now lost in a haze of spinach-infused moonshine. His strength, once his pride, is now his crutch, as he drowns his frustrations and missed opportunities in alcohol. Olive Oyl, his long-suffering wife, is trapped in a cycle of abuse, forced to endure Popeye’s cruel and erratic behavior. With no way out, she becomes a prisoner of her own life, suffocated by the expectations of the time and Popeye’s unrelenting grip. Bluto, a ruthless and jealous man, seeks to take Olive away from Popeye. His infatuation with her isn't about love but about winning, seeing her as a prize to be claimed. Bluto’s manipulations are cruel and calculated, and while Olive is tempted by the promise of escape, she knows the cost of living with such a man. As Olive navigates the dangers posed by both men, the story reveals the heartbreaking complexity of her situation. Popeye, once a hero in stories, is now a hollow man whose occasional moments of tenderness only make his cruelty more unbearable. Olive’s choices seem few, but her inner strength grows as she faces the harsh realities of a world that offers no sanctuary for women like her.
0:51 These are bad examples. Dracula (1931) and The Wizard of Oz (1939) were both made while their respective works were under copyright. The source material is in the public domain *now,* but it wasn't then, so those aren't examples of how the public domain has been used.
he was wrong about the spinach thing too as you need to renew copyrights on changes as well which wasn’t done for both the spinach and the blue sailor uniform he wears
A lot of Popeye shorts weren't renewed, which include his first 2 technicolor appearance's. Also I found an article that found that Popeyes first mention of spinach giving him powers was also not renewed.
Yeah, so the spinach thing IS actually fair game, even though it was introduced later. Ahh, the magic of lapsed/incorrectly filed copyrights. Same thing that made Night of the Living Dead public domain!
I think an interesting idea for a Popeye public domain story would be one about Ham Gravy. Popeye literally stole his girlfriend and friends and then he was kicked out of his own comic book series, the psychological effect it would have on someone being replaced like that would be interesting
How about Popeye gets stuck in an iceberg for 400 years and meets Buck Rogers... now THAT is a story. Also, one of the most famous songs is now public domain, "Singin in the Rain." (The 1929 song, not the movie) is now Public Domain, so one can make a remix of it.
I think an interesting idea for a Popeye public domain story would be one about Ham Gravy. Popeye literally stole his girlfriend and friends and then he was kicked out of his own comic book series, the psychological effect it would have on someone being replaced like that would be interesting
@@vantablack6288 Genndy was getting tons of stupid notes like, "make Popeye a teenager" and "Popeye can't be a sailor because kids don't know what a sailor is". If he had complied with all of that, the movie would've sucked, anyway.
Not if you do it yourself and put your creative work to actually making good stuff out of the public domain instead of idiots like that giving it a bad name
Plus I sent a lot of suggestions to people on the comment section so maybe if you looked at them you can see if you can adapt some of these works I mentioned all of them are in the public domain
Just a reminder that US copyright law originally had a relatively sane 28 year term (14 years with an optional 14 year extension). If it weren't for corporate greed distorting the laws over the centuries, everything copyrighted before 1997 would be in the Public Domain today. While there are a some prominent IPs from the 90s, the vast majority of works from that period have already been forgotten and don't even turn a dine for their creators. Copyright was _never_ intended to be a century long cash grab for corporate lawyers, a legal cudgel welded against creators revisiting their childhood memories, or a paywall for a relatively few IPs that retained the public attention for more than three decades. It was argued that longer terms should be allow for those truly popular works. The problem is that copyright expansion didn't stop there...
Finally. Popeye is gaining freedom from the clutches of the Hearst family. Imagine being a gruff sailor man but you're not allowed to swear for over 80 years because it might negatively impact merchandising.
@@zimbu_ I think an interesting idea for a Popeye public domain story would be one about Ham Gravy. Popeye literally stole his girlfriend and friends and then he was kicked out of his own comic book series, the psychological effect it would have on someone being replaced like that would be interesting
I would very legitimately love a full-budget Buck Rogers show or movie with the same campy visual style, but the characters and dialogue are *just* grounded enough that they feel like real people taking their world seriously without overdoing it. A tough balance, but I think it'd be absolutely beautiful
Come on, you know that Buck Rogers would just end up being an insufferable sassy woman fighting the future patriarchy. It would be another forgettable slop fest. Let sleeping dogs lie.
I'm one of the few people who has actually read the original "Thimble Theatre" comic strips from their peak in 1928-1938. So, Popeye being in the public domain is especially interesting to me. I've even read some of the stories from before then, and they are quite funny.
@@KasumiKenshirou I've read the "E.C Segar's Popeye Collection". That might be the same series. There were 6 volumes. But I've also read "The Pre-Popeye Comics of E.C Segar".
People, please don't just make Popeye a shitty horror movie or game. Popeye is the closest we'll get to a Public, free to use Superman. Have some IMAGINATION when you use Popeye.
@@oliverbrownlow5615 Yes & even then they won't be able to show him flying, just leaping, & they won't be able to use his familiar chest logo either. The original logo was just a normal red S on a yellow shield. Also, no Daily Planet. Clark worked at the Daily Star under Editor-in-Chief George Taylor, so no Perry White.
About Tintin, a « well, actually » comment. It’s only the 1st album that’s in the domain, and only for the US. The law is different in Europe. We need to wait 70 years after the author’s death, plus a few extra years if his country was at war sometime during his lifetime. Tintin’s creator Hergé died in 1983, and lived through 8 years of world wars. Tintin will enter Europe’s public domain in 2061.
Funny how both Tintin and Popeye would be entering the PD in the US on the exact same year, given that the latter was already copyright free in most of Europe since 2008.
The extra few years is only for France (and I believe it's debated there whether it survived the change to life+70). In the rest of the EU and the UK, it's just life+70.
@@prosfilaes just the UK. Most European countries signed the Bern convention. While France is the most protective, other signatories apply similar criteria.
@@prosfilaes … and just a note on Tintin: the Moulinsart trust, which handles all Tintin rights, works under French law. Meaning even when the works become public domain, they own moral rights. Which effectively enables them to deny use of works. And that bit is not limited in time.
@@CineMiamParis All European countries have signed the Berne Convention, but the Berne Convention does not include the extensions for the World Wars, just the basic life+50.
Or you could combine multiple public domain characters in a crossover. Tintin hires a gruff sailor Popeye to take him to some island. Mickey Mouse as a hardboiled detective. People need to stop with the unoriginal horror remakes
@@alm5992So corporations don't have to make anything original and can have a monopoly on creative works but everyone else has to make something original? That seems fair.
All those old school detectives trickling into the public domain will eventually lead to the greatest crossover mystery story ever. Imagine the minds of Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple solving one big case together.
If you're into that, you should track down the 1976 film Murder By Death which in volves satirical versions of Spade, Poirot and Marple as well as Charlie Chan and Nick and Nora Charles. Fair warning, Peter Sellers yellowface portrayal of "Sidney Wang" (Charlie Chan) can be pretty off-putting for a modern viewer even though it's an accurate choice. Chan was always played by a white actor in the past.
Imagine a seulth movie like Clue with all these characters in it. Could even pay homage to the original Clue with multiple endings by releasing multiple copies of the movie with a different ending each.
On the bright side, Popeye still being in copyright in 1981 is how we got Donkey Kong and, by extension, the entire Mario series. So to the US Copyright Office, jump up super star!
Hi Austin. I am so proud of your recovery. You have dine so good for yourself and glad to see you getting back to your old, lovable, dorky ways. Happy new year xx
Cant wait for the “lazy low budget public domain based horror film” genre to either grow some balls and actually make a good movie, or the genre dies out entirely and the public domain is used creatively
Seems to just be slowly fizzling out so far, but that shouldn't make one dent in any of your plans if you want to make a good one. I'll watch it. It would never be my favourite rendition of the character, but good horror is good horror
I love these types of videos near the new years, the amount of possible new stories that can be made are amazing (and the low budget horror movies of childhood classics is something I guess)
@sonicfanboy3375 You’d be surprised. Her current voice actor, April Winchell, spoke about one time being approached by a throng of Japanese fans of the character.
For those who don’t know, Nintendo originally wanted to make a game with the Popeye characters, but was denied a license so they made Mario, Donkey Kong and Pauline for the Donkey Kong arcade game.
@blixten635real I think an interesting idea for a Popeye public domain story would be one about Ham Gravy. Popeye literally stole his girlfriend and friends and then he was kicked out of his own comic book series, the psychological effect it would have on someone being replaced like that would be interesting
Next year the biggest entry is Betty Boop. Her cartoons and others form the same studio were a huge influence on early Anime, a bigger influence on Osamu Tezuka then Disney or Warner ever was. So I want Weebs to dome something with her to Homage that legacy. I want Mahou Shoujo Betty Boop with Bimbo as her Mascott.
It would have to be her earliest iteration, where she was an anthropomorphic dog for the first couple of years before her more iconic human design becomes available.
I love public domain indie adaptations! My first animated project was an adaptation of Camilla. I really think it's an incredible resource for new creators!
Lol, Tintin's dog is called "Snowy" in the US? Man, seems like every country has a different name for it. In the original French it's "Milou", and in Dutch they named him "Bobbie".
@Deacan-t8u Belgium. Was undecided between panties and knickers, and decided the latter was the least recently used one for me, so I went with that. 🤣 And yeah, if you don't grow up in an English speaking country, unfortunately, your English will be all over the map. Personally I prefer the British spelling, vocabulary and pronunciation. But most of our English language entertainment (shows, movies, songs) come from the States. Which means we'll unconsciously gravitate towards that version of the language. Not something that's likely to happen to a native speaker, same as how I'll never get confused between Flemish (the Dutch variant spoken in Belgium) and Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands. But for us foreigners who are exposed to mostly American English, and often learn words through their written forms rather than spoken, it's a bit more of a challenge to stick to the correct vocabulary and pronunciation. Point in case: I was in my 30's before I realised the L in "salmon" is just an M wearing glasses and a fake nose. 😂
Technically the original newspaper strip from 1931 that introduced popeyes spinach power up is outside of copyright: it lapsed early. However this mention of spinach is a single line of dialogue. Popeye does not actually consume the substance on the page. So the concept of him getting powers from Spinach is in the public domain, but the usual depiction of the spinach powers (the can. crushing the can so the spinach bursts out, Buff arms, fast helicopter hands etc) isn’t in the public domain yet. If you want popeye to gain spinach powers, you must think of an original way for those powers to manifest.
You definitely have to do this every year. I am always super pumped about public domain news and I especially love you and your community throwing little ideas here and there that just help stir the creative stew! Thanks, dude. I’m actually at the start of creating a script for a supernatural take on Don Quixote, but knowing that The Maltese Falcon novel is up for grabs is already giving me new ideas for the future ❤
No but him gaining the power from it you can I'd assume, and also if anyone even cared. I don't think most care enough about Popeye for anyone to do anything about it anyway lol
there’s a kickstarter for a comic about steamboat willie mickey and popeye fighting captain hook, if that’s close enough for you. it’s called “willy mouse in the land that never was”
a lot of Looney Tunes was parodies of radio shows, comics, films, etc. that are now forgotten. For example, Foghorn Leghorn was a parody of Senator Claghorn from the Fred Allen radio show. The timeless cartoons have often managed to outlive the legacy of what they were parodying!
Given that most of the Cthulhu mythos stories are also in the public domain, I would totally watch a movie of Popeye fighting aquatic eldritch beings with the power of Spinach
One of the funniest episodes I’ve ever seen of Popeye is the one when he’s a (Handyman) and she asks him to fix a leak under her sink. and he just destroys everything it just gets worse and worse he floods her apartment he floods the building ,he floods the entire city… Classic! Lol😂😂😂
When it comes to some of our most cherished adaptations of "public domain works" - Disney's Pinocchio and MGM's Wizard of Oz - both of those were actually under copyright at the time and were _licensed_ adaptations that paid dues to the creator.
Americans will never understand just how _big_ Tintin is He's one of the biggest, most important European comicbook characters. Think Superman big. Think Captain America big. The only one who can easily beat him in popularity is Asterix
@@geoffreyrichards6079And even then, the estate of Hergé has the permanent moral right over the franchise. So, if they don't like something, they can easily shoot it down.
It should be like trademark. If you're still actively using and profiting from it, I'm OK with it working in perpetuity. But the hot minute you abandon a property commercially, it's public domain. As a gamer, this is my argument for "abandonware shouldn't be piracy."
Yes, If you create a work you should very well damn have a "monopoly" over it aka ownership. And you Have no idea what a monopoly is. A monopoly is control of an industry not ownership of one aspect of it. For example Disney only had control over mickey mouse they didn't not have control over the concept of a mischievous dancing singing anthropomorphic mouse.
Beware, however, that Captain Haddock was not introduced until 1941, in the NINTH Tintin book. I had to look that up and even as a pretty big fan of the series, I was still shocked.
yeah, the current absurd near-100 year limit is the result of Disney lobbying for extending copyright over and over again. it's stupid and really only protects corporate interests. 20 years would be plenty - enough time to support yourself off it for a while if its a hit. really, we shouldn't need copyright at all, but alas.
While the character of Popeye from E.C. Segar’s original 1929 comic strip is entering the public domain, this status does not extend to all subsequent iterations, adaptations, or properties related to Popeye. Many of the later cartoons, films, and merchandise featuring Popeye, including his iconic spinach-eating scenes and character developments, remain under copyright protection.
Tintin is actually a character I’d be very interested in toying around with. I feel like that would happen more often if all the characters weren’t 100 years old, though it will continue to become even more exciting as OG versions of big name characters become available in the coming years: Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, etc. Great video!
If the rule is 90 years in the US, and say 70 Years somewhere else - would a character made in the US 70 years ago be public domain in the other country, or do copyright rules apply to wherever they were made, with other countries having to conform to those rules if something was made in the US
The country's laws would apply in that country, you just couldn't export it to the US. (Unless the country's law says that you have to respect the longer copyright from the country it was created in.)
If something is made in the US (95 years from publication, as a massive simplification), then other countries will give it their full terms (like life+70 in the EU), unless they have the rule of the shorter term, where it will lose copyright in that country when it loses copyright in its home country (the US, in this case). I don't know of any country that will give a work from a foreign country a longer term than a local work, no matter what the copyright is in that work's home country.
Some characters I think Austin should revive The puppteer Green mask Us Jones Strongman (Holyoke) Kinks mason The eagle Original daredevil 711 Air boy The heap Fighting yank
You can use spinach since the first popeye comic with spinach was released without copyright notice infact a lot of iconic characters are in the public domain because of that
Another story from 1929 for anybody interested is the golden mask I think it’s by this author who wrote a lot of stories for a title called weird stories I think his last name is Quinn so if anyone wants to make a horror film on a low budget this might be a good idea
Actually, several Popeye shorts and such are already in the public domain, including his whole thing with spinach. So it can be used. It's just that the character himself was not. Bluto takes awhile tho.
It's complex. The law as many people understand it protects those Popeye shorts as a derivative work of copyrighted Popeye. For whatever reasons, nobody seems to be enforcing that. In the case of Bluto, as far as I can tell, he's in the public domain for the same reason the spinach is.
The Wizard of Oz was not in the public domain when the 1939 movie was released, so that's not a good example of the use of public domain materials. The book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L Frank Baum, was published in 1900 and went into the public domain in 1958. All of Baum's other Oz books are currently in the public domain.
I am pretty excited to see how Popeye gets re-imagined. Even though he's not as popular as he used to be I think there's a lot of potential in him still.
7:34 Only the book novel about The Maltese Falcon is entered the Public domain, while the film adaptation is still under copyright control especially Warner Bros. under Turner.
The film is remarkably faithful to the novel, though the 1941 film (there was an earlier film version made in 1931) does remove some elements due to The Hays Code. The 1931 film was pre-code.
Now that popeye is public domain, I, and I'm sure others, want to upload the animatic from the 2014 cancelled popeye movie by sony since it was leaked online a few years ago. But since it includes bluto in it (spoilers) we can't since he was introduced later. Meaning we have to wait for another 2 years (if I'm correct) until that movie can finally be seen by the public since bluto will finally enter public domain too. Unless there's some other hurdle I'm not aware of.
Every time you create a new creative work, that creative work is covered by copyright; for recent works, in the US or EU, that's for your lifespan plus 70 years. Popeye may be in the public domain, but any recent Popeye works are still under copyright for many decades.
If I ever somehow can make a famous work, I'll make it absolutely certain that all of my works instantly enter the public domain upon my passing. None of these ip's would benefit me once I'm gone.
@@lildeathbed6003 Book dumb Kaminari from My Hero Academy apparently did, that's the first time I ever heard the book not sure if its more popular in Japan considering the reference in the first place.
We also got 12 new additions from Disney’s Mickey Mouse now in the public domain - including his first talking role in “The Karnival Kid” and the first appearance of his friend Horace Horsecollar in “The Plow Boy”.
Title: Tintin and the Case of the Imaginary Captain Genre: Dark Comedy/Satire Pitch: Tintin, a homeless schizophrenic, roams the streets with delusions of grandeur. His only companion is Snowy, a stray dog who silently follows him, the only witness to Tintin’s increasingly bizarre and fantastical discoveries. Encouraged by the manifestation of his childhood hero, Captain Haddock, he attempts to thwart a local scientist, professor Calculus, from providing nucleur secrets to Russia. Unable to distinguish reality from delusion, Tintin takes Professor Calculus hostage, certain he’s foiling a global crisis. As Detectives Thompson and Thomson close in, Calculus attempts to reason with Tintin, urging him to confront his actions and question his evidence. With a mix of desperation and uncertainty, Tintin grapples with his sanity, while Calculus’s innocence-and Tintin's delusion-remain in the balance.
Genndy Tartakovsky should make a new Popeye series. Man was influened by Popeye on his recent show Unicorn: Warriors Eternal and nearly made a Popeye movie with Sony.
Unfortunately only in America. French copyright law is particularly strict, with proprietary ownership lasting 70 years after the author's death, and moral ownership being indefinite. This means that tintin will only be public in 2054, and even then, you can only adapt it if the Hergé estate approves.
Please make “public domain day” a yearly series! Loving this
@@AlphTime I think it might be, last year he talked about Steam Boat Willie
i second this!!!!
Yeah, but he doesn't need to reexplain the basic concept at the start of every video though, we all know what the Public Domain is now.
@ i guess but its helpful for new viewers and people who dont already know what it means
@@kaydenclary-stork4988 Everyone who would click on a video like this already knows what it is.
Someone is crowdfunding a project to make a story of Steamboat Willie's Mickey Mouse meets Popeye the Sailor, basing it all on Public Domain on Indiegogo.
Its called "Wiley Mouse: In The Land That Never Was" it features Mickey, Popeye and an assortment of other Public Domain characters, done is a amazing art style that feels both old and new at the same time.
I have nothing to do with it, but I think its cool and a perfect example of why the Public Domain is awesome.
I was just thinking how much public domain potential popeye has, with so many people comparing his cartoons with Shonen battle anime, he would work so well in comics and animated shows/ movies
That's really cool, I'll look it up!
i love this.. that's the name i always wanted.. why not call steamboat mickey wiley?
I personally really disliked the artstyle but the project has potential
I mean it's also a minefaild as steamboat whilly and Popeye are still very much copyriten... It's just that one tiny bit of media isn't... So they must only show the media in question anbd CAN'T be confused with the current copywriten stuff... So yeah 100% if someone were to comercally use the Legio set version of Steam boat whilly or any 0other copyrighted materal they could be in deep trouble... So yeah I would never make a comercal game with a currently copyrighted IP even ifsome of it was public dpomian... Just a minefield like legelly reverse enggering oatanted stuff...
Popeye vs Steamboat Willie has so much gas as a concept
For real
Popeye Vs Pete would be cool too.
ehh, not really
Can’t wait
@@RiseOfTheKumquat67 not gas, but boat loads of coal!
Please do a yearly Public Domain Day video, I loved this one and last year's!!
Look at me right in the eyes
Pow
Gone
I second this!!
+
F*cking sml ytp movies?
I loved the one for next year too. Im from the future btw.
Tintin goes to find out the secret government experiments done on Popeye to give him his spinach based strength.
Where can I buy it? I need this!
you need to wait with the spinach
along side his new travel companion Sam Spade
@@ReaperCH90no the spinach is free too
*his whiffle hen(?) based strength
One thing to note with tintin is that he has only come into public domain in the US as in europe where it was originally published the copyright follows the 70 years after the death of the author rule. Hergé only died in 1983 so it won't become public domain in europe (and anywhere else that follows the same laws) until 2053.
So if you released a video game featuring Tintin, it would be banned in the EU because it violates copyright laws? Will they track all violations that have been released on UA-cam?
@@leonthayne well, more than likely, you'd just have to negotiate its release with the IP holder.
@@jacobhargiss3839 Tintin copyright holders are know for being pretty strict with their IP. Anyone publishing a video on Tintin using US public domain law should be very careful that the video is not available in Europe (there is geo-restriction settings available on UA-cam).
At least Popeye can be used now in both the US and Europe.
Popeye also went into the public domain in Europe before he did in the US.
The only thing worth making an horror game off is the Skeleton Dance, which also entered the Public Domain today.
oh, I love that one! 😍
And even then, I feel like Skeleton Dance would be better as a rhythm game.
Silly Simphonies' "The Skeleton Dance" one of the most famous of the Silly Simphonies.
Ah yes, the Spooky Scary Skeletons. 🎃💀
Never understood why the first thought of a popular character entering public domain is "let's make a horror film of it!"
Nintendo can finally make their Popeye arcade game! They had to invent some red wearing Italian plumber as a main character for their jump man arcade game.
Bluto still under copyright, so he's gonna have to still fight that gorilla.
I'm pretty sure they made that game a year after the original Donkey Kong was released.
I wasted so many quarters on that machine.
@RedMooshroom42Yeah they did, it’s at my local arcade
Popeye had some higher-end graphics than Donkey Kong. It was in an arcade inside of a laundromat my family always went to back in the day. Memories...
Him and tintin being free is so cool, I love these characters
Title: Spinach & Thorns
Genre: Dark Drama/Thriller
Pitch: In a grim port town, Popeye is no longer the hero of old-he’s a bitter, broken man, once full of potential but now lost in a haze of spinach-infused moonshine. His strength, once his pride, is now his crutch, as he drowns his frustrations and missed opportunities in alcohol. Olive Oyl, his long-suffering wife, is trapped in a cycle of abuse, forced to endure Popeye’s cruel and erratic behavior. With no way out, she becomes a prisoner of her own life, suffocated by the expectations of the time and Popeye’s unrelenting grip.
Bluto, a ruthless and jealous man, seeks to take Olive away from Popeye. His infatuation with her isn't about love but about winning, seeing her as a prize to be claimed. Bluto’s manipulations are cruel and calculated, and while Olive is tempted by the promise of escape, she knows the cost of living with such a man.
As Olive navigates the dangers posed by both men, the story reveals the heartbreaking complexity of her situation. Popeye, once a hero in stories, is now a hollow man whose occasional moments of tenderness only make his cruelty more unbearable. Olive’s choices seem few, but her inner strength grows as she faces the harsh realities of a world that offers no sanctuary for women like her.
Only public domain in US. Tintin will not be public domain in Europe until 2053
Public Domain is quickly becoming one of my favorite new holiday, mostly because of these videos lol
and baby einstein music.
Actually copyright was never renewed on the strip which introduced Popeye's spinach-induced powers, so it's also public domain.
I've heard that the spinach rendition will not enter the public domain until 2027.
Now I’m hungry for fried chicken.
@@jasonshereno it’s already public domain
not gonna chance it. Big Spinach is too powerfull.
Ooh thats good to know
0:51 These are bad examples. Dracula (1931) and The Wizard of Oz (1939) were both made while their respective works were under copyright. The source material is in the public domain *now,* but it wasn't then, so those aren't examples of how the public domain has been used.
I think that what he meant with it, the took public domain work and give a classic spin. That is also why he use Guy Richie sherlock holmes
Well, then Castlevania should definitely count
he was wrong about the spinach thing too as you need to renew copyrights on changes as well which wasn’t done for both the spinach and the blue sailor uniform he wears
A lot of Oz books were written by people other than the original author.
And nosferatu was sued by the author of dracula's wife
A lot of Popeye shorts weren't renewed, which include his first 2 technicolor appearance's. Also I found an article that found that Popeyes first mention of spinach giving him powers was also not renewed.
Yeah, so the spinach thing IS actually fair game, even though it was introduced later. Ahh, the magic of lapsed/incorrectly filed copyrights. Same thing that made Night of the Living Dead public domain!
it’s why he can wear blue uniforms and eat spinach both of which weren’t renewed
I think an interesting idea for a Popeye public domain story would be one about Ham Gravy. Popeye literally stole his girlfriend and friends and then he was kicked out of his own comic book series, the psychological effect it would have on someone being replaced like that would be interesting
How about Popeye gets stuck in an iceberg for 400 years and meets Buck Rogers... now THAT is a story.
Also, one of the most famous songs is now public domain, "Singin in the Rain." (The 1929 song, not the movie) is now Public Domain, so one can make a remix of it.
I'mma use the entire unedited instrumental and just add generic trap drums for profit 🤑🤑
@@BrokenValentine-333 dont forget to sing on top of it!
I think an interesting idea for a Popeye public domain story would be one about Ham Gravy. Popeye literally stole his girlfriend and friends and then he was kicked out of his own comic book series, the psychological effect it would have on someone being replaced like that would be interesting
"Biddy biddy biddy. What's up Pop?"
at this moment, sony should release the cancelled 3D popeye movie
They really stopped that and released THE EMOJI MOVIE😂
still important elements being under copyright.
@@arttashfilms9816 you dont get it, it was gonna make a bajillion dollars at the box office. no way popeye was gonna stand up to emojis, clearly
They can't use Bluto or Spinach, yet. They'd have to write Bluto out of it.
@@vantablack6288 Genndy was getting tons of stupid notes like, "make Popeye a teenager" and "Popeye can't be a sailor because kids don't know what a sailor is". If he had complied with all of that, the movie would've sucked, anyway.
I have a feeling the guy behind the Winnie the Pooh horror movie is gonna have a FIELD DAY with this.
Honestly the only good thing I’m hoping from this Genndy’s take on Popeye
Popeye horror movie, oh boy...
Not if you do it yourself and put your creative work to actually making good stuff out of the public domain instead of idiots like that giving it a bad name
Plus I sent a lot of suggestions to people on the comment section so maybe if you looked at them you can see if you can adapt some of these works I mentioned all of them are in the public domain
@@Labyrinth6000trailer is already out
Just a reminder that US copyright law originally had a relatively sane 28 year term (14 years with an optional 14 year extension). If it weren't for corporate greed distorting the laws over the centuries, everything copyrighted before 1997 would be in the Public Domain today. While there are a some prominent IPs from the 90s, the vast majority of works from that period have already been forgotten and don't even turn a dine for their creators.
Copyright was _never_ intended to be a century long cash grab for corporate lawyers, a legal cudgel welded against creators revisiting their childhood memories, or a paywall for a relatively few IPs that retained the public attention for more than three decades. It was argued that longer terms should be allow for those truly popular works. The problem is that copyright expansion didn't stop there...
Can't believe it took me this long to find out the whole reference behind Duck Dodgers
Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a halfthphth...century!
My parents actually told me about the name Buck Rogers the first time I saw that cartoon. 😋
Wait until you find out about the live action TV Show from the late 1970s
@lukewright9031 that's how I knew Buck Rogers.
@@lukewright9031 THERE WAS A LIVE-ACTION DAFFY DUCK SHOW?!?!?! OMG I'M NOT GOING TO EAT OR DRINK UNTIL I'VE FOUND THIS!!!!
Finally. Popeye is gaining freedom from the clutches of the Hearst family. Imagine being a gruff sailor man but you're not allowed to swear for over 80 years because it might negatively impact merchandising.
@@zimbu_ I think an interesting idea for a Popeye public domain story would be one about Ham Gravy. Popeye literally stole his girlfriend and friends and then he was kicked out of his own comic book series, the psychological effect it would have on someone being replaced like that would be interesting
I would very legitimately love a full-budget Buck Rogers show or movie with the same campy visual style, but the characters and dialogue are *just* grounded enough that they feel like real people taking their world seriously without overdoing it. A tough balance, but I think it'd be absolutely beautiful
Come on, you know that Buck Rogers would just end up being an insufferable sassy woman fighting the future patriarchy. It would be another forgettable slop fest. Let sleeping dogs lie.
@@nekad2000 Take insufferable out of there, and we're completely on the same page, this would be fucking rad
I'm one of the few people who has actually read the original "Thimble Theatre" comic strips from their peak in 1928-1938. So, Popeye being in the public domain is especially interesting to me. I've even read some of the stories from before then, and they are quite funny.
I am definitely using the Sailor Man for some books.
I've read all of the ones by Segar that have Popeye in them via the Fantagraphics collections.
@@KasumiKenshirou I've read the "E.C Segar's Popeye Collection". That might be the same series. There were 6 volumes. But I've also read "The Pre-Popeye Comics of E.C Segar".
I read a book entitled "Thimble Theater: Introducing Popeye" that had Popeye's first storyline in it that I found at a public library.
Believe it or not olive Oyl became public domain before Popeye did
People, please don't just make Popeye a shitty horror movie or game. Popeye is the closest we'll get to a Public, free to use Superman. Have some IMAGINATION when you use Popeye.
For the next 15 years, and by then ONLY the first comic book, but still
Superman, first published in 1938, will enter the public domain nine years from now (in 2034).
@@oliverbrownlow5615 Yes & even then they won't be able to show him flying, just leaping, & they won't be able to use his familiar chest logo either. The original logo was just a normal red S on a yellow shield. Also, no Daily Planet. Clark worked at the Daily Star under Editor-in-Chief George Taylor, so no Perry White.
too late
@Hayden1969-ws4vy depending on DC renewing their copyrights. Remember, DC will do anything to keep the big 3 from entering public domain.
About Tintin, a « well, actually » comment. It’s only the 1st album that’s in the domain, and only for the US. The law is different in Europe. We need to wait 70 years after the author’s death, plus a few extra years if his country was at war sometime during his lifetime. Tintin’s creator Hergé died in 1983, and lived through 8 years of world wars. Tintin will enter Europe’s public domain in 2061.
Funny how both Tintin and Popeye would be entering the PD in the US on the exact same year, given that the latter was already copyright free in most of Europe since 2008.
The extra few years is only for France (and I believe it's debated there whether it survived the change to life+70). In the rest of the EU and the UK, it's just life+70.
@@prosfilaes just the UK. Most European countries signed the Bern convention. While France is the most protective, other signatories apply similar criteria.
@@prosfilaes … and just a note on Tintin: the Moulinsart trust, which handles all Tintin rights, works under French law. Meaning even when the works become public domain, they own moral rights. Which effectively enables them to deny use of works. And that bit is not limited in time.
@@CineMiamParis All European countries have signed the Berne Convention, but the Berne Convention does not include the extensions for the World Wars, just the basic life+50.
Or you could combine multiple public domain characters in a crossover. Tintin hires a gruff sailor Popeye to take him to some island. Mickey Mouse as a hardboiled detective.
People need to stop with the unoriginal horror remakes
People are unoriginal. They need to leave 95 year-old characters alone and create their own stuff.
@@alm5992So corporations don't have to make anything original and can have a monopoly on creative works but everyone else has to make something original? That seems fair.
All those old school detectives trickling into the public domain will eventually lead to the greatest crossover mystery story ever. Imagine the minds of Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple solving one big case together.
Never heard of Sam Spade, but what of Edgar Allen Poe's detective in "Murder in the Rue Morgue"?
And the culprit? Fantômas
If you're into that, you should track down the 1976 film Murder By Death which in volves satirical versions of Spade, Poirot and Marple as well as Charlie Chan and Nick and Nora Charles.
Fair warning, Peter Sellers yellowface portrayal of "Sidney Wang" (Charlie Chan) can be pretty off-putting for a modern viewer even though it's an accurate choice. Chan was always played by a white actor in the past.
Imagine a seulth movie like Clue with all these characters in it. Could even pay homage to the original Clue with multiple endings by releasing multiple copies of the movie with a different ending each.
@@benjaminstorace6699 wasn’t Dupin already in the public domain. I can’t wait until Perry. Mason enters the public domain.
On the bright side, Popeye still being in copyright in 1981 is how we got Donkey Kong and, by extension, the entire Mario series.
So to the US Copyright Office, jump up super star!
Hi Austin. I am so proud of your recovery. You have dine so good for yourself and glad to see you getting back to your old, lovable, dorky ways.
Happy new year xx
Cant wait for the “lazy low budget public domain based horror film” genre to either grow some balls and actually make a good movie, or the genre dies out entirely and the public domain is used creatively
It has, but people focus too much on them because negativity
@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario plus all that slop is much easier to make and consume than genuinely interesting stuff
A Popeye horror movie could work if he was the protagonist fighting off sea monsters or something
@ true
Seems to just be slowly fizzling out so far, but that shouldn't make one dent in any of your plans if you want to make a good one. I'll watch it. It would never be my favourite rendition of the character, but good horror is good horror
I love these types of videos near the new years, the amount of possible new stories that can be made are amazing (and the low budget horror movies of childhood classics is something I guess)
Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow are also public domain
Well, a very early prototype of Clarabelle. I don’t believe she was officially given that name till around a year later.
I don't think there are enough people who care about those characters
@sonicfanboy3375 most peoole who care are devoted comic book fans and Floyd Gottfredson fans.
@sonicfanboy3375 You’d be surprised. Her current voice actor, April Winchell, spoke about one time being approached by a throng of Japanese fans of the character.
@geoffreyrichards6079 I guess it's another "more popular in Japan" situation
Now Nintendo can finally do what they planned in 1981
For those who don’t know, Nintendo originally wanted to make a game with the Popeye characters, but was denied a license so they made Mario, Donkey Kong and Pauline for the Donkey Kong arcade game.
They made that game a year later.
@blixten635realDonkey Kong didn’t feature Mario, it features Jumpman
Jumpman is the template that eventually became Mario, but is a separate character
@@Deathnotefan97"Jumpman" is just an older name for Mario. Mario vs Donkey Kong and Super Mario Odyssey prove it's just the same person
@blixten635real I think an interesting idea for a Popeye public domain story would be one about Ham Gravy. Popeye literally stole his girlfriend and friends and then he was kicked out of his own comic book series, the psychological effect it would have on someone being replaced like that would be interesting
2:06 -light chuckle-
IT'S SEA MAN
Next year the biggest entry is Betty Boop. Her cartoons and others form the same studio were a huge influence on early Anime, a bigger influence on Osamu Tezuka then Disney or Warner ever was. So I want Weebs to dome something with her to Homage that legacy.
I want Mahou Shoujo Betty Boop with Bimbo as her Mascott.
It would have to be her earliest iteration, where she was an anthropomorphic dog for the first couple of years before her more iconic human design becomes available.
@@geoffreyrichards6079 Wow, I did not know that.
@@geoffreyrichards6079 Only thing that'll be different is that it'll be the furries who will be doing something with her
Pluto is as well…
@@Kuudere-Kunit was barely noticed because it changed in the very first cartoon of 1932…
8 more years for you Clark , 10 for you Bruce
10 more years for the Human Torch, and the Sub-Mariner as well.
@ike_of_pyke well i want to make a comic with Superman and popeye fighting on the future when superman enters the public domain :)
I believe it's 9 more years for Clark (originally published in 1938).
I love public domain indie adaptations! My first animated project was an adaptation of Camilla. I really think it's an incredible resource for new creators!
Lol, Tintin's dog is called "Snowy" in the US? Man, seems like every country has a different name for it. In the original French it's "Milou", and in Dutch they named him "Bobbie".
Snowy is ALL English speaking nations. It's not just the US that speaks English
@@Deacan-t8u Alright, alright! Don't get your knickers in a knot. We haven't forgotten about you!
@@EvenTheDogAgrees you said knickers not panties. And US not uk for English speakers?? Where are you from? It's an odd combo. Ps I'm from Ireland
@Deacan-t8u Belgium. Was undecided between panties and knickers, and decided the latter was the least recently used one for me, so I went with that. 🤣
And yeah, if you don't grow up in an English speaking country, unfortunately, your English will be all over the map. Personally I prefer the British spelling, vocabulary and pronunciation. But most of our English language entertainment (shows, movies, songs) come from the States. Which means we'll unconsciously gravitate towards that version of the language. Not something that's likely to happen to a native speaker, same as how I'll never get confused between Flemish (the Dutch variant spoken in Belgium) and Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands. But for us foreigners who are exposed to mostly American English, and often learn words through their written forms rather than spoken, it's a bit more of a challenge to stick to the correct vocabulary and pronunciation. Point in case: I was in my 30's before I realised the L in "salmon" is just an M wearing glasses and a fake nose. 😂
@@EvenTheDogAgrees nice reply. Thank you. Knickers and tintin forever!
Technically the original newspaper strip from 1931 that introduced popeyes spinach power up is outside of copyright: it lapsed early. However this mention of spinach is a single line of dialogue. Popeye does not actually consume the substance on the page. So the concept of him getting powers from Spinach is in the public domain, but the usual depiction of the spinach powers (the can. crushing the can so the spinach bursts out, Buff arms, fast helicopter hands etc) isn’t in the public domain yet. If you want popeye to gain spinach powers, you must think of an original way for those powers to manifest.
What if I just change it to a can of collard greens?
@@s-wo8781 strictly speaking, that would work. But if it otherwise looked the same, then you'd still have issues.
Steroids!
Just make it like Bane, where he eats it and he gets grotesquely buff
Smokes dried spinach and gets grotesquely buff
Tintin in the public domain opens up so many possibilities for good stories, anytime they won't make it a horror movie.
You definitely have to do this every year. I am always super pumped about public domain news and I especially love you and your community throwing little ideas here and there that just help stir the creative stew! Thanks, dude.
I’m actually at the start of creating a script for a supernatural take on Don Quixote, but knowing that The Maltese Falcon novel is up for grabs is already giving me new ideas for the future ❤
Yay for Popeye I have something set and locked for him. It will definitely be fun.
3:14 Public Domain Popeye can eat spinach. You can't copyright eating spinach.
No but him gaining the power from it you can I'd assume, and also if anyone even cared. I don't think most care enough about Popeye for anyone to do anything about it anyway lol
Did somebody say "Make a soulless cash-grab Adventures of Tintin horror movie?" Because that's what I just heard!
Tintin the killer
@monoduck The Tortures of Tin Tin
I love Public Domain works!!! Plz make this vid every year!
Popeye as an anime character fighting modern day pirates who are zombies would be lit 😂
there’s a kickstarter for a comic about steamboat willie mickey and popeye fighting captain hook, if that’s close enough for you. it’s called “willy mouse in the land that never was”
Wait, Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 century was a reference to a comic called Buck Rogers?
Yes
Very yes. It was a parody.
it was a tv show but yeah
a lot of Looney Tunes was parodies of radio shows, comics, films, etc. that are now forgotten. For example, Foghorn Leghorn was a parody of Senator Claghorn from the Fred Allen radio show. The timeless cartoons have often managed to outlive the legacy of what they were parodying!
It was one of the parodies Chuck Jones did with Daffy & Porky
4:47 That scene looks so familiar. It's just like Anakin and Padme on Naboo
Possibly a coincidence, but who knows? Lucas was heavily inspired by the series.
Given that most of the Cthulhu mythos stories are also in the public domain, I would totally watch a movie of Popeye fighting aquatic eldritch beings with the power of Spinach
5:43 Voice crack goes crazy🔥🔥🔥
when your mothers gentle gaze falls upon you she feels nothing but remorse for being such a putrid creature into this world.
One of the funniest episodes I’ve ever seen of Popeye is the one when he’s a (Handyman) and she asks him to fix a leak under her sink. and he just destroys everything it just gets worse and worse he floods her apartment he floods the building ,he floods the entire city… Classic! Lol😂😂😂
Slowly but surely the public domain avengers are assembling!
just wait until the avengers start becoming public domain starting in 2035
Rather watch public Domain Justice League.
@@TonisFilmClub bro you should check out League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
@@NostalgiNorden start with Justice Society...the ones who make the league look like sidekicks.
When it comes to some of our most cherished adaptations of "public domain works" - Disney's Pinocchio and MGM's Wizard of Oz - both of those were actually under copyright at the time and were _licensed_ adaptations that paid dues to the creator.
Americans will never understand just how _big_ Tintin is
He's one of the biggest, most important European comicbook characters. Think Superman big. Think Captain America big.
The only one who can easily beat him in popularity is Asterix
Alot of people remember the Spielberg film fondly.
It’s gotta be rough for them, knowing that the way Europe’s copyright system works. Tintin will apparently not enter the public domain till 2061.
@@geoffreyrichards6079And even then, the estate of Hergé has the permanent moral right over the franchise. So, if they don't like something, they can easily shoot it down.
Steamboat Willie Mickey: “First time?”
fun fact: there were 2 popeyes in 1929. one that looks old and guff and one that looks much more like the popeye we know now. you can use both.
I'm extremely glad your still alive thank you man
I can imagine the fan art already
I bet Genndy is real happy about this one
Yeah. This is his chance to finally make that Popeye movie.
Or at least a different version separate from Sony’s scrapped film.
@@geoffreyrichards6079 which might actually be better than the scrapped film
It's crazy how long copyright grants you monopoly power over a creation. It should be like 30 years at most.
if disney didnt totally destroy the chance of ever being able to use any still hugely relevant ip in your lifetime, it would still be like that
I think lifetime of creator and that's it. Otherwise big corpos will stop licensing from individual creators and just wait the 30 years.
I like the idea sometimes, not by corporations, but if its by the original creator(s) or even passed to their family or successor
It should be like trademark. If you're still actively using and profiting from it, I'm OK with it working in perpetuity.
But the hot minute you abandon a property commercially, it's public domain. As a gamer, this is my argument for "abandonware shouldn't be piracy."
Yes, If you create a work you should very well damn have a "monopoly" over it aka ownership. And you Have no idea what a monopoly is. A monopoly is control of an industry not ownership of one aspect of it. For example Disney only had control over mickey mouse they didn't not have control over the concept of a mischievous dancing singing anthropomorphic mouse.
Just saw Wicked. Great example of why the public domain can't be too strict
Well… a movie based on a stageplay, based on a book that’s a slightly different reinterpretation of the original book series. But I get your point.
Does this also mean the whole next year of Mickey Mouse shorts are also public domain? That should give us a bit more Mythos to work wirh
Beware, however, that Captain Haddock was not introduced until 1941, in the NINTH Tintin book. I had to look that up and even as a pretty big fan of the series, I was still shocked.
3:22 Anthony "Buck" Rogers
4:52 Tintin
6:10 Maltese Falcon (Sam Spade)
7:44 Blackmail
Popeye in the public domain? This means we can finally publish my Uncle’s hand drawn adult comics 😂
Someone needs to make TinTin in the Watergate scandal. A TinTin vs Nixon gun fight would be amazing.
6:00 Nah, Imma make a low budget horror film.
Don’t you guys wish copyright would go back to having a time limit of 20 years instead of 90 years after the creators’ death
no
yeah, the current absurd near-100 year limit is the result of Disney lobbying for extending copyright over and over again. it's stupid and really only protects corporate interests.
20 years would be plenty - enough time to support yourself off it for a while if its a hit.
really, we shouldn't need copyright at all, but alas.
@@johnhorne1839 Why?
No. If popeye was in the public domain in 1981 The Mario and Donkey kong franchises probably wouldn't exist today.
I hope the Maltese Falcon entering the public domain starts a new wave of Noir works 🔍🕵🏻♂️
I bet there are more obscured, classic characters and stories out there that are past their respective copyright that deserve a revival
While the character of Popeye from E.C. Segar’s original 1929 comic strip is entering the public domain, this status does not extend to all subsequent iterations, adaptations, or properties related to Popeye. Many of the later cartoons, films, and merchandise featuring Popeye, including his iconic spinach-eating scenes and character developments, remain under copyright protection.
Tintin is actually a character I’d be very interested in toying around with.
I feel like that would happen more often if all the characters weren’t 100 years old, though it will continue to become even more exciting as OG versions of big name characters become available in the coming years: Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, etc.
Great video!
Just make sure you don't publish it in Europe, and don't insult the sensibilities of the Hergé estate.
I hear “Buck Rogers,” and my brain responds, “Duck Dodgers of the 24th and a half century!”
Same! 😂😂
If the rule is 90 years in the US, and say 70 Years somewhere else - would a character made in the US 70 years ago be public domain in the other country, or do copyright rules apply to wherever they were made, with other countries having to conform to those rules if something was made in the US
The country's laws would apply in that country, you just couldn't export it to the US. (Unless the country's law says that you have to respect the longer copyright from the country it was created in.)
If something is made in the US (95 years from publication, as a massive simplification), then other countries will give it their full terms (like life+70 in the EU), unless they have the rule of the shorter term, where it will lose copyright in that country when it loses copyright in its home country (the US, in this case). I don't know of any country that will give a work from a foreign country a longer term than a local work, no matter what the copyright is in that work's home country.
Depends on the dates for America, In the 70s America changed it to be like Europe with authors life + 70 years after death
Some characters I think Austin should revive
The puppteer
Green mask
Us Jones
Strongman (Holyoke)
Kinks mason
The eagle
Original daredevil
711
Air boy
The heap
Fighting yank
HAPPY NEW YEARS!!
Waiting when Tartakovsky says “fuck it” and make Pop Eye not with Sony, but with Kickstarter
Horace horsecollar, skeleton dance, clarabelle cow and mickey and minnies voice from karnival kid are also now all public domain!
You can use spinach since the first popeye comic with spinach was released without copyright notice infact a lot of iconic characters are in the public domain because of that
Another story from 1929 for anybody interested is the golden mask I think it’s by this author who wrote a lot of stories for a title called weird stories I think his last name is Quinn so if anyone wants to make a horror film on a low budget this might be a good idea
You mean The House of Golden Masks by Seabury Quinn?
When will Buck Rogers and Tin Tin join your cinematic universe?
1980's Nintendo jumping with joy rn
Actually, several Popeye shorts and such are already in the public domain, including his whole thing with spinach. So it can be used. It's just that the character himself was not. Bluto takes awhile tho.
It's complex. The law as many people understand it protects those Popeye shorts as a derivative work of copyrighted Popeye. For whatever reasons, nobody seems to be enforcing that. In the case of Bluto, as far as I can tell, he's in the public domain for the same reason the spinach is.
9:29 the golem, great film…
The Wizard of Oz was not in the public domain when the 1939 movie was released, so that's not a good example of the use of public domain materials.
The book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L Frank Baum, was published in 1900 and went into the public domain in 1958. All of Baum's other Oz books are currently in the public domain.
ah I was hoping you'd spotlight the hal foster tarzan strips and disney's skeleton dance finally lapsing! great video in anycase ❤
When does Dick Tracy hit public domain? That can't be long.
I am pretty excited to see how Popeye gets re-imagined. Even though he's not as popular as he used to be I think there's a lot of potential in him still.
7:34
Only the book novel about The Maltese Falcon is entered the Public domain, while the film adaptation is still under copyright control especially Warner Bros. under Turner.
The film is remarkably faithful to the novel, though the 1941 film (there was an earlier film version made in 1931) does remove some elements due to The Hays Code. The 1931 film was pre-code.
Now that popeye is public domain, I, and I'm sure others, want to upload the animatic from the 2014 cancelled popeye movie by sony since it was leaked online a few years ago. But since it includes bluto in it (spoilers) we can't since he was introduced later. Meaning we have to wait for another 2 years (if I'm correct) until that movie can finally be seen by the public since bluto will finally enter public domain too. Unless there's some other hurdle I'm not aware of.
No, the animatic would still be property of Sony (being from 2014), so you would still need their permission to upload it legally.
Every time you create a new creative work, that creative work is covered by copyright; for recent works, in the US or EU, that's for your lifespan plus 70 years. Popeye may be in the public domain, but any recent Popeye works are still under copyright for many decades.
Popeye is public domain
Me: waiting for the random ass Popeye horror game/movie 😑
If I ever somehow can make a famous work, I'll make it absolutely certain that all of my works instantly enter the public domain upon my passing. None of these ip's would benefit me once I'm gone.
Funny, I know the author of Cerebus the Aardvark intends to do that for some reason.
You can even do it before you die, if you so choose, as satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer has done.
World War I Veteran, Buck Rogers falls into suspended animation into the future and met his former ally and trusted sidekick Stevie!
0:57 A farewell to arms…GASP! I FELL IN LOVE WITH A NURSE DURING WORLD WAR ONE?
There is no way you read that
@@lildeathbed6003 Book dumb Kaminari from My Hero Academy apparently did, that's the first time I ever heard the book not sure if its more popular in Japan considering the reference in the first place.
We also got 12 new additions from Disney’s Mickey Mouse now in the public domain - including his first talking role in “The Karnival Kid” and the first appearance of his friend Horace Horsecollar in “The Plow Boy”.
Title: Tintin and the Case of the Imaginary Captain
Genre: Dark Comedy/Satire
Pitch: Tintin, a homeless schizophrenic, roams the streets with delusions of grandeur. His only companion is Snowy, a stray dog who silently follows him, the only witness to Tintin’s increasingly bizarre and fantastical discoveries. Encouraged by the manifestation of his childhood hero, Captain Haddock, he attempts to thwart a local scientist, professor Calculus, from providing nucleur secrets to Russia.
Unable to distinguish reality from delusion, Tintin takes Professor Calculus hostage, certain he’s foiling a global crisis. As Detectives Thompson and Thomson close in, Calculus attempts to reason with Tintin, urging him to confront his actions and question his evidence. With a mix of desperation and uncertainty, Tintin grapples with his sanity, while Calculus’s innocence-and Tintin's delusion-remain in the balance.
PLEASE someone give us a GOOD POPEYE MOVIE LIKE THE ONE THEY DISCARTED
Genndy Tartakovsky should make a new Popeye series. Man was influened by Popeye on his recent show Unicorn: Warriors Eternal and nearly made a Popeye movie with Sony.
I still can't believe the Popeye film was canceled
Actually, I think you can still use spinach. Spinach isn’t exactly copyrighted. You just can’t use anything directly from the cartoons
Copyright should last at most 30 years.
Popeye: "Wow, blow me down!"
*Looks at Olive*
The pure excitement I felt at hearing Tintin
Unfortunately only in America. French copyright law is particularly strict, with proprietary ownership lasting 70 years after the author's death, and moral ownership being indefinite. This means that tintin will only be public in 2054, and even then, you can only adapt it if the Hergé estate approves.
Popeye's spinach will become public domain in 2027.