Gregory's Server@textfiles how so?
I'm a bit vague on the details? Is this because Disney extended the life time of their copyright or what?
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@lehi @textfiles what is the copyright validity period in the US versus how Disney extended them to? @deavmi @textfiles According to the Internet, around 1909 there was a revision to the copyright laws that made the base term 28 years, with a 28 year extension available. Since then, well, it's gotten rather messy. Now it's the lifetime of the author plus 70 years.  @deavmi@ieji.de @textfiles@mastodon.archive.org To me, it's because the title implies that Disney was wronged, specifically with the word "loses." In reality, that company is already wealthy enough to not benefit from the copyright at all, and it's us who have lost out on all the potential creations we could have made if Steamboat Willie was in the Public Domain earlier. |
@deavmi @textfiles CBS is framing it like Disney lost some sort of battle and there is an implied injustice in this happening. The truth of the matter is the "Mickey Mouse" copyright laws have been hand crafted by Disney to artificially increase their market dominance when copyright was never supposed to last that long in the first place.