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Disney Lost Roger Rabbit

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Re: Disney Lost Roger Rabbit

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A 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...

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Direct 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."

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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

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This 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.

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