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re: The copyright on Mickey Mouse expires in 2024

Posted on 5/9/22 at 7:34 am to
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
47217 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 7:34 am to
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Copyrights can/will be renewed.


You can only do that once, based on all I've read.
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Public domain occurs when the copyright holder/beneficiaries of the copyright don't renew...



Or when the renewal runs out.

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This isn't really a thing...




It is actually.

But as Obtuse pointed out, There may be some newer copyrights done on the more modern Mickey.
Posted by IceTiger
Really hot place
Member since Oct 2007
26584 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 7:40 am to
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Just like they did with the rainbow.

Strangely,
They are symbolized by the unnatural rainbow...the straight one.

Tribes and Jesus are symbolized be the curved rainbow, the natural one.
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
182102 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 7:43 am to
Your headline is pretty misleading. Why only post a wikipedia article and not information about what your headline says?


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The expiration of copyrights for characters like Mickey Mouse and Batman will raise tricky new legal questions. After 2024, Disney won't have any copyright protection for Mickey's original incarnation. But Disney will still own copyrights for later incarnations of the character—and it will also own Mickey-related trademarks.


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The Mickey Mouse character has evolved over the decades, Grimmelmann points out. And "modern Mickey is still protected," he says.


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Disney holds both copyright and trademark protections for the Mickey Mouse character. Copyright protection expires; trademark doesn't. So even after all significant Mickey Mouse copyrights have expired, Disney could potentially use trademark law as a weapon against unauthorized Mickey Mouse products.


LINK

This one


This post was edited on 5/9/22 at 7:47 am
Posted by Dam Guide
Member since Sep 2005
16725 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 7:51 am to
Disney already turned Steamboat Willy into a trademark. They started using an animated logo of it for their animation studios.

Disney really is a-hole.



What’s really shite is Disney has no issue using expired copyright to their advantage, sometimes to hilarious failures see John Carter.
This post was edited on 5/9/22 at 7:56 am
Posted by SpqrTiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2004
9708 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 7:51 am to
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I’m curious myself, but if I had to guess it’s either the infamous “Song of the South,” or one of the pre-WW2 slightly pro-Nazi cartoons they put out.


It was Oswald the Rabbit. Considered the precursor to Mickey Mouse.


Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25913 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 8:39 am to
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to hilarious failures see John Carter.

That was no fault of the film nor the property on which it was based.
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
Member since Dec 2007
74221 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 8:39 am to
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.



I'm not even lying.

They now sell Oswald ears in the parks too.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
74763 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 8:48 am to
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They now sell Oswald ears in the parks too.
Ahhh, I saw those and thought they were “Drew Carey Show” related.
Posted by 3nOut
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Jan 2013
32387 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 8:55 am to
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.



I'm not even lying.

They now sell Oswald ears in the parks too.



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Al Michaels acknowledged that his contract negotiations had effectively traded him for Oswald, and spoke favorably of the deal.[22]
In February 2006, Disney CEO Bob Iger initiated a trade with NBC Universal in which a number of minor assets, including the rights to Oswald and the 27 shorts that Walt Disney had worked on, were acquired by The Walt Disney Company in exchange for sending sportscaster Al Michaels from Disney's ABC and ESPN to NBC Sports.[6] At the time, ABC had lost its contract for NFL broadcast rights, and despite recently signing a long-term contract with ESPN, Michaels was interested in rejoining broadcast partner John Madden at NBC for the Sunday night package. Universal transferred the trademark of the character to Disney, and in exchange, Disney released Michaels from his employment contract, allowing him to sign with NBC.

The deal included the trademark rights to the character and the 27 Disney-produced Oswald shorts along with the handover of any physical Disney-produced Oswald material Universal still had in their possession. Iger had been interested in the property because of an internal design document for a video game, which became Epic Mickey.[23] Walt Disney's daughter, Diane Disney Miller, issued the following statement after the deal was announced:

When Bob [Iger] was named CEO, he told me he wanted to bring Oswald back to Disney, and I appreciate that he is a man of his word. Having Oswald around again is going to be a lot of fun.[24]



This post was edited on 5/9/22 at 8:57 am
Posted by Fat and Happy
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2013
19935 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 9:00 am to
It would be some funny shite if some else bought the mouse
Posted by S
RIP Wayde
Member since Jan 2007
172154 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 9:55 am to
Remember tPhotoshop guy on the fark board around 2007-08?
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
150238 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 10:00 am to
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Chicken gonna start using mickey as TD mascot
Jay Cee still tOfficial face of tFranchise

Posted by TackySweater
Member since Dec 2020
24650 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 10:01 am to
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Jesus are symbolized be the curved rainbow, the natural one.


Jesus is symbolized by a rainbow?
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
134576 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 10:11 am to
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It would be some funny shite if some else bought the mouse



Elon.


Have him create Mickey Musk as the new mascot of the anti-woke
Posted by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
28488 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 10:11 am to
Mickey should be the new Pepe!






Posted by Bamafig
Member since Nov 2018
6462 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 10:17 am to
And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

Revelation 4:3 is probably an example of what he is referring to.
Posted by Dam Guide
Member since Sep 2005
16725 posts
Posted on 5/9/22 at 10:59 am to
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That was no fault of the film nor the property on which it was based.


Not saying it was, but they have no issues taking expired copyright for their own benefit while working to make sure people don’t do the same to them. They deserved to take a loss on John Carter for just that reason.
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