Batman will be coming out of copyright in the 2030s, we speculate on what a public domain dark knight would look like. Also, that segment turns into a plea to support AO3. We're not mad about it?
Today's sources:
A good look at some of the copyrighted works expiring soon and what culture could look like in the future: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/what-expiring-copyright-protections-mean-for-our-media-landscape/
Heartbreaking and hard to read, but necessary: https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/librarians-workplace-changing-social-work/
We won't have a verdict in the DOJ vs PRH/S&S trail for a bit, but NYT summed up some of the takeaways: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/books/prh-penguin-random-house-trial.html
Takeaways from some other industry observers: https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/xewyw7/discussion_how_is_everyone_handling_the_proposed/
Research is about to get a lot cheaper, will it solve the journal crisis? https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-historic-moment-new-guidance-requires-federally-funded-research-to-be-open-access
Inflation and paper costs hit publishers hard: https://trends.spiny.ai/print-price-hikes/
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