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Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain. 🥳 So what does that mean for our shared culture? Free-range archivist Jason Scott takes readers on an enlightening tour of copyright, the creative ecosystem & film preservation in a thoughtful new post: blog.archive.org/2024/01/05/mi
8 January at 18:08 | Open on mastodon.archive.org
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Travis F W

I don't think I had ever watched Steamboat Willie all the way through. What a bastion of violence and animal cruelty.

8 January at 18:37 | Open on fosstodon.org
Artemesia

@internetarchive Mickey Mouse is not in the public domain. The Steamboat Willie cartoon strip is.

8 January at 19:40 | Open on techhub.social
Vector Hugo

Dear @artemesia seems like the @internetarchive is right.
The Ub Iwerks artworks are in the PD already while you aren't wrong since the character redesigned by Fred Moore will take another decade to get there, too.
8 January at 20:46 | Open on burma.social
Artemesia

@gfkdsgn @internetarchive

No, mickey mouse in general is not in the public domain, and someone placing their derivative work in the public domain does not put disney's current mickey mouse in the public domain.

ign.com/articles/mickey-mouse-

8 January at 21:03 | Open on techhub.social
Vector Hugo

Did you @artemesia actually read the article that You've linked? While you replied "NO" the Disney spokesperson somehow agreed with the @internetarchive

To continue disagreeing you should be a better copyright lawyer than those hired by Disney. That's a job opportunity for you, isn't it?

8 January at 21:16 | Open on burma.social
Artemesia

@gfkdsgn @internetarchive

I did. You may want to try reading beyond the first sentence, and this time try some reading comprehension. Some of the parts relevant to the current mickey mouse not being in the public domain:

> only the earliest form of Mickey from Steamboat Willie will be able to be used by artists and creators outside of Disney in a very restricted way.

> "...people have associated the character with Disney’s stories, experiences, and authentic products,” a Disney spokesperson said. “That will not change when the copyright in the Steamboat Willie film expires.

> “More modern versions of Mickey will remain unaffected by the expiration of the Steamboat Willie copyright

> We will, of course, continue to protect our rights in the more modern versions of Mickey Mouse and other works that remain subject to copyright."

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@gfkdsgn @internetarchive

I did. You may want to try reading beyond the first sentence, and this time try some reading comprehension. Some of the parts relevant to the current mickey mouse not being in the public domain:

> only the earliest form of Mickey from Steamboat Willie will be able to be used by artists and creators outside of Disney in a very restricted way.

8 January at 21:46 | Open on techhub.social
Artemesia

@gfkdsgn @internetarchive

> Furthermore, creators will not be able to produce any work that deceptively fools consumers that their Mickey is in anyway affiliated with Disney as the company will "work to safeguard against consumer confusion cause by unauthorized uses of Mickey and our other iconic characters."

Ipso facto: the comic short Steamboat Willie is in the public domain, the character Mickey Mouse is not.

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8 January at 21:49 | Open on techhub.social
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