As always, the headline should be qualified with ‘… in the USA.’

Tintin the brave cub reporter — and his dog, Snowy — will enter the public domain in the U.S. well before they will in the European Union, where they are copyrighted until 2054. That’s because EU copyright terms extend 70 years past creators’ deaths, and Belgian cartoonist Hergé died in 1983.

It’s definitely making their job harder on the face of it, but it also differentiates them from other ad companies, so I guess they’re betting on that being a draw for potential clients.

Advertising isn’t going anywhere, so investing in/supporting ways to more ethically serve ads without harvesting private data seems like a good thing?

Can they not just send a DMCA takedown notice to the host of that web server?

Article doesn’t mention this affecting anywhere other than the US. Why is this in world news?

I mean, that’s basically the main character’s arc in Office Space, right? Still rings true.

I still remember the first time I saw the demo video where they flip a window around and write a note on the back of it. Blew my mind.

Starfield