Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
pluralistic.net
Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
1–10 of 260 posts
Re: Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
#2A great article on how awfully twisted copyright has become away from its intended goal, or at least the publicly stated intended goal.
Much reform is needed, seems to apply to everything...
Re: Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
#3Lots of fun ranting (the good kind) about the ills of the industries built to take advantage of creators, but for those who just want to know more about the state of Roger Rabbit: https://www.imnotbad.com/2025/11/roger-rabbit-copyright-reve...
Re: Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
#4[flagged]
Re: Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
#5Direct link to the article: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/18/im-not-bad/#im-just-drawn...
It's a long-winded article, even for a lawyer, but the payload seems to be a crack at the head of the RIAA, which is suing Midjouney.
"In other words, Glazier doesn't want these lawsuits to get rid of Midjourney and protect creative workers from the threat of AI – he just wants the AI companies to pay the media companies to make the products that his clients will use to destroy creators' livelihoods."
Re: Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
#6This should work for video game developers right? Can they reclaim ownership of the games they created in the 80s/90s that have been abandoned?
Re: Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
#7[flagged]
I honestly can't tell if this is meant sarcastic or not. The power offset is so huge you need clauses like this to keep the power at some form of equilibrium.
Re: Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
#8[flagged]
Is that what is happening? My understanding of Termination of Transfer is that it keeps you from being able to make a sequel to your video game using the characters you licensed from me, but that the game you have already created you can continue to sell.
What the termination allows me to do as the creator of that character in this analogy is say - charcircuit isn't doing anything with my character for 35 years - I'm going to take back control and maybe do something myself with it or license it to someone else to do something with...
Re: Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
#9[flagged]
this happens with eg licensed music or product tie-ins or whatever, and the game just stops being sold
Re: Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
#10This should work for video game developers right? Can they reclaim ownership of the games they created in the 80s/90s that have been abandoned?
If the developer was a work for hire and never owned the copyright then no.
If the developer licensed the game to a publisher then maybe.