Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
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Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
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Re: Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
#2This going to cause so much problems as it is only the steamboat willie’s Mickey which looks different from modern Mickey.
Re: Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
#3Disney has a lot to answer for. They may have gained from the constant increase of the copyright period, but the World of Performing Arts has lost decades and decades of books, film and music that was too good to lose but not popular enough to be preserved.
They've all fallen into the dead hole of oblivion. The World's loss, but Disney doesn't care. Everything they get their grubby little fingers on turns to shit.
There is a reason a lot of us boycott Disney.
Re: Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
#4Mickey Mouse curve finally is defeated. Now it should be beaten back down which is harder.
Re: Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
#5On the other hand, Disney itself is a talented and successful practitioner of building upon the public domain. In fact, the public domain is Disney’s bread and butter. Frozen was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. The Lion King draws from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Biblical stories, and possibly an epic poem about the founder of the Mali Empire.[3] Fantasia showcases public domain classical music, and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” segment comes from a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, and Pinocchio came from stories by Lewis Carroll, The Brothers Grimm, Victor Hugo, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Anderson, and Carlo Collodi.
Re: Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
#6Use its likeness to summon Disney trademark lawyers in a shamanistic ritual.
=)
Re: Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
#7Was there a copyright reason for Disney changing their opening logo sequence to the steamboat willy thing? Some kind of "it's now our trademark" claim?
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Re: Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
#9Was there a copyright reason for Disney changing their opening logo sequence to the steamboat willy thing? Some kind of "it's now our trademark" claim?
I think it was to mirror Marvel's intro showing the history of the brand.
Re: Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
#10On the other hand, Disney itself is a talented and successful practitioner of building upon the public domain. In fact, the public domain is Disney’s bread and butter. Frozen was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. The Lion King draws from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Biblical stories, and possibly an epic poem about the founder of the Mali Empire.[3] Fantasia showcases public domain classical music, and “…
Disney is both the best and worst when it comes to the public domain. It shows what you should do with it: take something that exists, remix it, release it, and even create a successful media & entertainment company. But efforts to aid extensions to the term of copyright expiration will – if they haven't already – have a deleterious effect.