• LKPU26@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I read an article speculating that the addition of a few Steamboat Willie frames to the introduction video played on modern Disney movies was to try and push this from copyright protection into trademark protection.

    Trademark protection does not expire.

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    11 months ago

    I didn’t know Winnie the Pooh was already public domain and that there is a horror movie about him made already? I got to watch that

    • LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      It’s honestly a good laugh while saying “what the fuck am I watching” they’re working on the second one which introduces Tigger. Don’t go into it with high expectations go into it knowing they’re doing it for fun and flipping off disney.

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    11 months ago

    I think it was MatPat on YouTube who said that Disney knows this and included that specific Mickey in their trademark as a way to protect it under different laws.

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      11 months ago

      Exactly right. They are attempting to incorporate it into their actual branding iconography so that they can argue it’s trademark.

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      11 months ago

      Yup! Copyright and trademark are different things and Disney lawyers have already insulated the company. Yes it will technically enter public domain, but nothing will actually change.

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      11 months ago

      Jokes on Disney, I’m making my porno about Captain Pete, who drives his steamboat down the river, picking up floozies and spitting tobacco up their butts.

      (We are all making porn right? That’s the plan.)

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      11 months ago

      I actually think this is a good way to do things, the original work becomes public domain and can be freely reproduced, but people can’t, for example, make NSFW versions of the work.

      Or just a conga line of shitty Sherlock Holmes adaptations.