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Post by John Green on Jan 1, 2024 19:01:21 GMT
I don’t wanna be a party pooper but Walt Disney died in the late 1960s. I'm waiting for someone to claim (again) that he isn't dead! |
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Post by John Wall on Jan 1, 2024 20:07:11 GMT
I don’t wanna be a party pooper but Walt Disney died in the late 1960s. I'm waiting for someone to claim (again) that he isn't dead! On the moon with Elvis 😇 |
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Post by John Green on Jan 1, 2024 20:14:08 GMT
I'm waiting for someone to claim (again) that he isn't dead! On the moon with Elvis 😇 Well, it's a hobby... |
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Post by tom rogers on Jan 1, 2024 21:04:33 GMT
Nah, Elvis works down at the local chip shop … |
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Post by markperry on Jan 2, 2024 3:00:01 GMT
Selling what he ate ironically.
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Post by billardery on Jan 2, 2024 19:05:52 GMT
I don’t wanna be a party pooper but Walt Disney died in the late 1960s.
Which is part of my problem with it, the US is just a blanket 95 years no matter what before a certain date. The rest of the world is life of author + certain number of years. The US demands the rest of the world follows their terms (so Steamboat Willie goes public domain for everyone), but then ignores what everyone else does.
"Before a certain date" is the key part here. The US joined the "life of the author" party with the Copyright Act of 1976, and while it didn't apply life-based terms retroactively, it did extend existing copyright terms by 19 years. I'm honestly surprised the likes of Disney didn't successfully lobby to extend all then-existing copyright terms to ones based on the life of the author; after all, they successfully bought a 20-year extension with the Mickey Mouse Protection Act Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. |
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Post by George D on Jan 5, 2024 22:46:04 GMT
Mickeys earliest films has reached pd, but we will see how aggressive Disney's lawyers will be in using their trademark . When there are solicitors there will be a way
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Post by John Wall on Jan 5, 2024 23:13:56 GMT
Mickeys earliest films has reached pd, but we will see how aggressive Disney's lawyers will be in using their trademark . When there are solicitors there will be a way I heard a rumour that there are more lawyers than rats in the US - although it’s often difficult to tell the difference! |
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Post by John Green on Jan 5, 2024 23:42:29 GMT
Mickeys earliest films has reached pd, but we will see how aggressive Disney's lawyers will be in using their trademark . When there are solicitors there will be a way I heard a rumour that there are more lawyers than rats in the US - although it’s often difficult to tell the difference! Here's Micky Rat tying it all together: www.lambiek.net/artists/a/armstrong_robert.htm |
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