出版与作家生涯2014publicdomainreview.org
2015年将进入公有领域的作家们
Writers who will be entering the public domain in 2015 in many countries
导读
这篇盘点2015年将在多国进入公有领域的作家，评论进而讨论美国版权延期、蒙德里安的灵感来源、本应开放的文化作品以及历史学家布洛赫。对写作者而言，它提醒我们公共领域是创作素材的重要来源，也提示观察现实与跨学科阅读能激发写作。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把每年进入公有领域的作品清单当作素材库，提前规划可合法改编、续写或引用的文本。
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版权期限会直接影响创作自由，写作前先确认素材是否已进入公共领域。
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像蒙德里安从荷兰道路、田野和温室色块中获得抽象灵感一样，写作也可从具体生活景观中提炼形式。
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关注那些本应开放却被版权锁住的文化作品，思考它们如何限制或启发新故事。
HN 评论精选
美国版权被反复追溯延长，公共领域实际上被冻结。
提醒一下：美国今年仍不会有作品进入公有领域，因为国会习惯性追溯延长版权；美国下一批进入公有领域要等到2019年1月1日。
audiodude查看英文原文
In case anyone is wondering, once again nothing will enter the public domain in the United States because of Congress' perpetual habit of retroactively extending copyright on works. The next time anything will enter the public domain in the US is January 1, 2019. source: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday
抽象艺术的灵感常来自对现实景观的观察。
有点跑题：蒙德里安以白底黑线网格和红蓝黄块闻名。我原以为他的作品纯抽象，直到飞往荷兰——荷兰人爱花、花卉是重要出口，土地多填海而成、地势平坦；合适季节飞抵史基浦机场，会看到黑色道路、雪覆田野、成块鲜艳温室，蒙德里安的灵感一目了然。我对他的作品从“绘画”变成了“图像”。
anigbrowl查看英文原文
Somewhat off-topic, but: Piet Mondrian - A Dutch painter whose distinctive grid based creations – horizontal and vertical lines upon a white background adorned with red, blue and yellow blocks – proved one of the most influential experiments with abstraction of the 20th century. I always thought of Mondrian's work as abstract until the first time I flew to the Netherlands. Dutch people really, really like flowers, and have made them a major agricultural export. Also, a lot of dutch land is reclaimed from the sea and the terrain is pretty flat to begin with. Fly into Schipol at the right time of year and Mondrian's inspiration becomes very obvious - black roads, snow-covered open fields, greenhouses with blocks of vivid color. In a flash, my concept of his work went from 'paintings' to 'pictures'.
版权延长使本应开放的文化作品被锁住，限制了新创作。
我还喜欢设想哪些作品本应进入公有领域。按最初14年版权、可续14年，1987年出版的作品今年本应开放，包括《铁血战士》《机械战警》《公主新娘》、道格拉斯·亚当斯的《Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency》、艾伦·摩尔的《守望者》、盖瑞·伯森的《斧头》。它们本应成为开放文化作品，供新写作者用作新故事的基础和背景；现在却是锁定的宇宙，只容少量故事。
MereInterest查看英文原文
In addition to this, I like considering things that should be entering the public domain. Using the initial copyright length of 14 years, renewable for an additional 14, anything published in 1987 should be entering the public domain in the upcoming year. * Predator * Robocop * The Princess Bride * Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams * Watchmen, by Alan Moore * Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen These should all be open cultural works, ready for new writers to use as a basis. Ready to be used as the backdrop for new stories. Instead, they are locked universes, only containing a small number of stories.
马克·布洛赫与年鉴学派值得写作者更多关注。
法国历史学家马克·布洛赫上了他们的“亚军”名单，值得更广泛关注。他1944年被盖世太保枪杀，与当时身为战俘的费尔南·布罗代尔同为年鉴学派领袖；该学派可说是职业历史学家中最有影响力的思想流派之一。
benbreen查看英文原文
The French historian Marc Bloch is one of the ones who makes their runner's up list and deserves wider attention. He was shot by the Gestapo in 1944 and along with Fernand Braudel (who was himself a POW at the time) was the leader of the Annales School, arguably the most influential school of thought among professional historians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bloch
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