No.20181
This is going to fall into the public domain in 6 years. Disney is going to try to extend copyright again to stop it. How do we stop it?
What if found Senate candidates (and House candidates that have a chance at 3+ terms) and asked them about this? None of them want to look like a corporate goon if a random guy asks about it, and if they're recorded it's very hard for them to go back on it.
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No.20182
Republicans should oppose it until Disney agrees to fire half its board and replace them with conservatives, but since Republicans have not balls they won’t do it.
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No.20183
Pic related is how you stop what you don't like.
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No.20192
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No.20199
>>20181
>Disney is going to try to extend copyright again to stop it.
The fact that they succeeded the first time is frightening enough. This kind of shit is twisted.
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No.20224
>>20186
This has implications for Star Wars too. Disney keeps trying to extend IP protections into perpetuity not just for their own stuff, so even if Star Wars gets sold the next owner would have exclusive rights until George Lucas dies and then however many years afterward the new law secures exclusivity.
This would be a hilarious thing to intersect with Bob Iger's theoretical Presidential bid.
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No.20229
>>20181
Should we just have a Disney general, so I don't have to see five fucking Disney/#GATE/faggotry threads?
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No.20231
>>20181
>Disney is going to try to extend copyright again to stop it.
For what purpose? Maybe I'm missing something, but what good does it do them to, I assume, pay to hold onto the copyright for an ancient bit of animation that probably no one's even seen in decades?
>How do we stop it?
Probably can't. Disney has enough money to make sure it happens.
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No.20234
>>20231
>For what purpose? Maybe I'm missing something, but what good does it do them to, I assume, pay to hold onto the copyright for an ancient bit of animation that probably no one's even seen in decades?
It's Mickey Mouse the character, not just older works featuring him. And seeing as that shorts-wearing rat has better recognition than Santa Claus, you can see why Disney keeps extending copyright law to protect them that interest.
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No.20239
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>>20183
>>typical jedi coup poster
>>20181
We need to find Separatists whom we can use to create an incident in which the Senate will be forced to grant the President emergency powers. He can then stay in office far after his term and advert this crisis.
Peace should be our objective, not war.
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No.20251
>>20234
Actually that isn't true. Mickey Mouse's trademark is different from the copyright on Steamboat Willy. Something that frequently gets confused in discussions on IP are trademarks vs. copyrights and how they're limited. Copyrights, contrary to popular belief, don't have to enforced or actively protected but they have a limited life span and eventually expire (in theory). Trademarks are unlimited but have to be constantly defended.
Disney can keep exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse forever as long as they're willing to assert their trademark over him in courts. What they can't (or aren't supposed to be able to) do is maintain exclusive rights to profit over older Mickey Mouse content and creations after a set point. So at some point in the future the copyrights for all Mickey cartoons, comics, and sweater designs will fall into Public Domain and people will be allowed to make their own reproductions or interpretations of those ideas without paying Disney royalties.
Disney really is just that driven by avarice. They don't want to lose the rights to even the oldest stuff and want to sit on an eternally bloating mountain of copyrights. They even used weasel tactics in the last copyright extension appeal by pretending it would have anything to do with future Mickey Mouse merchandise and confuse consumers when their right to Mickey Mouse was never up for expiration.
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No.20257
>>20251
Huh, interesting. I have to wonder if they really are still turning a profit on Steamboat Willie, though–since it's the first appearance of Mickie Mouse, clips of it are still being shown in quite a few documentaries and similar larger productions, and I doubt all of them are considered fair use.
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No.20259
>>20257
I think they sell enough memorabilia and expensive collectible crap with Steamboat Willie stuff on it for them to care. T-shirts, mugs, statuettes, pins, expensive clocks with little gold and silver components, and just about anything else you can brand. Collectively those must mean something to them especially when one considers that just about every time Disney has an anniversary worth mentioning the Steamboat Willie and other early cartoon shorts get paraded about again.
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No.20274
>>20259
Yeah, that was partially the point I was making. I may have misread, but in >>20251 it seemed like you were implying that Disney's copyright shenanigans were motivated by a miserly clutch at anything and everything, rather than a legitimate cost-benefit analysis of whether these old IPs were still profitable.
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