Your metric of “does anybody care?” being what teenagers know is really not relevant. Teenagers know jack all about anything.
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If not for portraits on money, would we all easily remember what Washington, Lincoln, et. al. looked like?
I’m sure part or maybe most of the reason the titans of industry ‘s portraits don’t live in most of our memories is because there were much fewer photographs of them taken. I’m sure I have an order of magnitude more photographs of my child on my phone, then existed any photographs of Rockefeller.
First, anything 95 years old is in the public domain. On Jan. 1st every year, works created 95 years ago enter the public domain. As I write this in 2025, everything published ANYTIME during 1929 is in the PD.
Second, I like to read articles on https://publicdomainreview.org/.
One thing you can try is to upload the movie to YouTube. But I’ve found that their detector is too sensitive, it’ll flag something undoubtedly in the PD as being under copyright.
History is written by the teenagers? Hardly.