Different laws may apply world wide. Ie: in Europe is not about the publication date, but author life-span (author’s works get in public domain 70 years it’s death: TinTin gets in PD in EU in the 2054)
Ugly Popeye and ugly Tintin. In the US specifically. A lot of these public domain announcements tend to be a bit too vague.
Yeah I’m guessing you can retell “in the land of the soviets” if you wanted and use Tintin’s design from those first strips, but every other story is likely still off-limits. Would have to be a completely original story using the character.
And some of the favorites like Captain Haddock, etc, weren’t in Soviets.
Yeah, you still have to wait over a decade to use him in the US, which is a pretty big deal.
You do get to use Tintin with an all-new look as long as you don’t use the newer blue sweater and long coat design, though.
To be fair a Popeye beat em up could be a lot of fun. Quite good mobile phone fodder, if have thought.
Was Popeye’s spinach the first catch-trope powerup?
Rules are consistent with the Pac-man powerup
The spinach part isn’t public domain yet. It came much later.
Is there a chance that Popeye movie might get released now?
Ive heard of an upcoming popeye horror spoof where popeye is haunting an abandoned spinach canning factory or something.
I saw a trailer the other day. It’s real.
Does this mean we can freely distribute Tintin in Thailand now? Outstanding piece, everyone should read it!
I don’t think so, since a lot of the content in that one is from late tintin stories.
This would only be the first Tintin story, and the contents therein, that are free use… Which would be what, land of Soviets, Congo, America?
Soviets. And that early version of Tintin is rough.
Yea, god they are hellishly racist. Still love them as a product of their time.
Still funny though, almost Monty Python-esque at times.
