Why did Disney give up on copyright extension without a fight?They literally changed copyright law for decades to keep this cartoon copyright, and then all of a sudden, they decided they just didn't care anymore. By 2030, All of Mickey's cartoons up to 1934, and the earliest versions of most of his entourage will be PD.
At some point it was starting to bite them in the ass because there was music they wanted to use or stories they wanted to adapt that they had to pay for.
>>150327683They're probably one of the major reasons Copyright law is as strict as it is, the US already has the worst copyright laws when it comes to letting things go public domain.
>>150327683They’re going to try to keep control of Mickey using trademark instead so they started using the old design in logos and other branding
They're under a lot more scrutiny now, plus tech lobbyists would prevent an extension since they want easy access to old crap.
>>150328153Tech Lobbyists can't even outlobby big oil to get Nuclear back on the table despite the clear need for more electricity.
>>150327683Why? Because at some point it had to fucking stop, 95 years after publication was already stretching the definition of "a limited period of time" as stated by the constitution. If they continued to have it extended by twenty years every time this rat was about to enter Public Domain, it would get too absurd to justify. Imagine this, when an individual person creates something and the publisher does not claim copyright, then that creation remains theirs for their lifetime and 70 years afterwards, then that means an author who got their first book published when they were 20 and died at 100 would have their book under copyright protection for 150 years. If our modern copyright laws always applied, that means it would have been a perfectly plausible scenario for a book published in 1874 to only now go public domain. I know I'm making a vibes argument here, but does that even remotely sound right to you?At some point movies, TV shows and pretty much all media lose their value as commercial products. When that happens, there isn't much point in keeping the copyright is there? The bizarre thing is that it doesn't even happen around the 95 years for most media like the lobbyists would have you believe. If the abundance of technically copyrighted material uploaded to Youtube that the companies take forever (or never bother) to remove is any indication, most things don't even have commercial value after 20-30 years. So the instance that the law needs to protect this shit for almost 100 years is only there to protect big franchises, which really just make a small piece of all media produced.And if the lack of further lobbying shows us anything, 95 years was probably deemed "good enough" for that shortsighted goal.
>>150327683Rise of AI and LLMs which need a shit ton of training data along with very public spats with government officials like DeSantis who ruled against as retaliation.
>>150327683Disney was only part of the reason copyright law got changed. There were other studios and rightsholders involved. On top of that the government wanted to align the copyright law to copyright laws in Europe>>150327821>the US already has the worst copyright laws when it comes to letting things go public domain.Surprisingly, it's not. At least things from the 1920s-1940s are allowed to go public domain in the US after 95 years. There are things from those eras that still aren't public domain in other countries because they're sticking to life+70 (case in point: Metropolis which is public domain in the US but not in Germany because Fritz Lang died in 1976)Life + 70 is only a "great copyright law" for you if the creator has passed on during the 1950s or before
>>150327683cuz theyre pussy ass bitches thats why
>>150327777Impressive
while we're on the subject of the public domain, why hasn't Minnie Mouse become a more popular waifu now? u don't gotta hold back anymore gng
>>150327777Holy checked & quads of truthFpbp
>>150332681someone post Minnie's fat ass in those bloomers
>>150327683Because their man on the inside (Sonny Bono) died and they didn't feel like starting over with a new senator. 90 years is such an odd time, it feels like they could've gotten it extended to 100.
>>150327683People were talking about how Disney was just going to protect their IPs through trademarks and other legal means. They don't only need copyright for protection.>>150334607While true, it's not as if it would have cost them that much to buy off another politician.
a lot of disney's last push was for bringing US copyright law 'in line' with Europe's, making a sort of world standardthey have no argument to hide behind now
who needs copyright law when you can just sue any bit player who tries to use your expired IP?disney's been studying at the burroughs school
