#2043 is the earliest we could see the tolkien legenarium enter public domain
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oh i'm going to cry
tumblr ate my post again and this time ate the ask I was replying to with it
i wrote like 5 or 6 hefty paragraphs on copyright law and the tolkien legendarium. twice.
#this time it didn't randomly delete all my text#this time it let me write the text#which i saved as a draft regularly#and then just devoured the thing wholesale when i hit post#oh my god i'm so sorry to the person who sent that ask#i love you and i was so excited to talk about copyright law#but i don't think i have it in me to write it up for a third time#long story short is that lotr and the hobbit are technically public domain in the us but not the uk#and the tolkien estate has found a lot of legal loopholes to hold onto their cash cow ip#2043 is the earliest we could see the tolkien legenarium enter public domain
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