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Mr. True goes grocery shopping [Outbursts of Everett True, 1926] (lemmy.world)

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[–] randomaccount43543 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

"The Outbursts of Everett True" is likely in the public domain. This comic strip was created by A.D. Condo and J.W. Raper, and it first appeared in 1905. Works published in the United States before 1924 are generally in the public domain.

Here are some key points to confirm its public domain status:

Publication Date: Since "The Outbursts of Everett True" was first published in 1905, it falls well before the 1924 cutoff.
Copyright Term: For works published before 1924, the original copyright term would have been 28 years, renewable for another 28 years, totaling a possible 56 years. Even if renewed, this would have expired by 1961.
Public Domain Confirmation: Typically, works published over 95 years ago are in the public domain unless there are specific reasons why their copyright might have been extended beyond the normal terms, which is uncommon for early 20th-century works.

Therefore, "The Outbursts of Everett True" should be in the public domain based on its original publication date.

[–] ripcord 1 points 12 hours ago

Thanks, gpt.

[–] spittingimage 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

/u/randomaccount43543, are you ChatGPT?

[–] randomaccount43543 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

😝 Nah I’m real, I just copy pasted that from chatgpt

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If Everett True were still running, there'd be one where he beats someone up for quoting ChatGPT

[–] TinyShonk 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's still possible since he's public domain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

If I could draw, I'd start the comic Outbursts of Evelyn True. She's Everett's granddaughter, and her very first appearance has her beat up grandad for deadnaming her. The comic would cover modern day annoyances in exactly the same way the old one covered the annoyances of that time. It would also be woke AF

[–] Donebrach 5 points 4 days ago

Don’t do shit like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outbursts_of_Everett_True

The Outbursts of Everett True (originally titled A Chapter from the Career of Everett True) was an American two-panel newspaper comic strip created by A. D. Condo and J. W. Raper that ran from July 22, 1905[1][2] to January 13, 1927,[3] when Condo had to abandon it for health reasons.

Some of it was before 1924, and some after. The stuff after won't be tied to the starting date; copyright will be on each strip independently.

The title claims here that the strip shown was one of the last ones, from 1926, so I'd expect that it probably is not in the public domain.