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RACIST NIGGER MOUSE
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1 January at 6:54 | Open on nicecrew.digital
  @internetarchive I just learned this about the blatantly racist music used by #Disney in this first #MickeyMouse appearance (and apparently elsewhere through Disney's history):  No it is not. Only two shorts had their copyright expire. All other Disney animation is safely locked away. Also the character in many forms is trademarked, which does not expire. People still have to be VERY careful how they present an image of the Mouse. @MylesRyden @internetarchive I hate to tempt fate, but at this point, it's just a matter of time. Or maybe it is just new year's optimism talking... I don't see any movement towards shorter copyright terms. Certainly more Disney content will go into the public domain as they age out, but it still will be at least a century (from when made, not from now) when that happens. Steamboat Willie is now public domain. But - if the only archives are h264 videos, it would be a shame. I want lossless frame by frame high quality stills!  @tomhannen @internetarchive FYI The fact that H.264 is a commonly used standard does not make it a free standard @webhat @internetarchive not interested in another run around the format wars. Understand the issues around h264 vs ogg etc. Just want high quality still frames from the original film footage! @tomhannen   @internetarchive Now I can actually recreate this using an outdated version of Macromedia Flash.    @riggbeck soon, all of humanity will be freed from the shackles of this horrid copyright law. @ThankGodItsFriday @internetarchive Minnie Mouse and Pete both appear in Steamboat Willie, alongside Mickey Mouse.  @internetarchive Everyone focuses on the mouse, but I'm just glad that artists are now free to anthropomorphise steam whistles. @LonM @internetarchive Here is a article about just that artist: https://www.kcur.org/history/2021-05-22/walt-disney-didnt-actually-draw-mickey-mouse-meet-the-kansas-city-artist-who-did Kansas City animator Ub Iwerks. It was Iwerks, not Disney, who in 1928 designed Mickey Mouse. @LonM @internetarchive Disney has continued the trend to not credit the artist and indeed bullies them into signing over their copyright.  @irisRichardson @LonM @internetarchive > So in a sense, the Walt Disney company did eventually tell the true origin story of Mickey Mouse. It just took 70 years or so. Business as usual... bastards.  Iโm thinking a followup to Bambi vs. Godzilla is due. Just like Walt would have wanted. @internetarchive @sandehalynch @internetarchive Perhaps PETA could use this in an advertising campaign. Disney has so many other images of Mickey Mouse, this should not bother them. But knowing how they are so protective of their intellectual property, I wonder how they'll take this.  @internetarchive it's crazy to learn this was under copyright Soo long,   Buster Keaton already did "Steamboat Bill, Jr." It is part of what was borrowed to make this short.  |
