• will@lemm.eeOP
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      11 months ago

      Long damn time. If they’re basing the play on the movie (a work-for-hire), it was released in 1987, so its copyright expires in 2082 (1987 + 95). If based on the book (a sole-authorship, so author’s death + 70), William Goldman died in 2018, so the book’s copyright will expire in 2088 (2018 + 70).

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        11 months ago

        Forever and a day. Thanks, Disney, for constantly stealing from the public domain and contributing nothing back.