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I plan on uploading a BD rip of Steamboat Willie to YouTube at midnight January 1st, 2024. I'm curious if a copyright strike will happen and if I can defeat it.
p.s. make sure to exfiltrate everything of value from your attached Google account before you hit Upload.
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It’s difficult because the most recent extensions were put in place to synchronize US copyright with the absurd durations pioneered by Europe and the Berne Convention. In effect, the US has allowed international treaties to supersede the Constitution’s requirement that copyright last “for limited times.”
I think it went the other way around. Corrupt US industries first pushed those conventions and then pressured US legislature to "synchronize" with them. It's all a big pile of corrupt BS that tries to bypass normal lawmaking, so pushing back against it should be only natural.
You need to look at the contemporary advertisements for Mickey Mouse from the era. Were they in color? Was he red? According to what is stated to be a 1928 poster, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mickey-mouse-poster_n_2149610 , he is depicted with a red shirt, white buttons, yellow gloves, and brown shoes.
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Were increases considered constitutional amendments? If they could happen, then what's the problem to revert it?
Previous copyright extensions were not constitutional amendments. Decreasing the length of new copyright terms could be done the same way, without any need for an amendment. Reducing the length of existing copyright terms might be considered an ex post facto law. Those are explicitly prohibited by the Constitution. The Constitution states that copyrights must be limited in length. Retroactively extending the duration…
Takes longer than changing the terms of existing grants, but so what.
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Can we go back to death +50 then? Tolkien would be public domain next year. In Canada it was close but they switched to +70 last year.
That doesn't go far enough. Copyright terms should be on the order of 20 years or so, and should have nothing to do with whether or not the creator is still alive.
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That's better than nothing, but since it was pushed so aggressively before, it can as well be pushed backwards the same way.
At this point, I think the only way copyright terms could be reduced is a Constitutional amendment (not going to happen).
I plan on uploading a BD rip of Steamboat Willie to YouTube at midnight January 1st, 2024. I'm curious if a copyright strike will happen and if I can defeat it.
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What exactly went on in Florida? Sorry, I'm not across this.
Florida passed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, to which Disney publicly stood against. Since then, GOP led Florida government has decided that Disney is the enemy and has taken active measures to bludgeon them.
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How much influence does the Florida legislature have over federal copyright law, really?
Very little overall, but conservatives it got a fair amount of press and conservative media in particular started echoing a sentiment of “Disney doesn’t share your values”. Additionally the current governor of Florida (who pushed forwards the bill) is running for the republican nomination for president so its made a pretty big splash regarding the “culture wars”
Realistically, this might be a primary issue for a few key Republican seats elsewhere though. The question is whether “owning the libs” via acting against what Disney wants or “owning the libs” via acting against what Google want is more compelling to those people.
I plan on uploading a BD rip of Steamboat Willie to YouTube at midnight January 1st, 2024. I'm curious if a copyright strike will happen and if I can defeat it.