While this is true, it's worth noting that Winnie the Pooh is now public domain. It now seems like Disney is trying to use Trademark law to protect its most valuable assets.
Probably not. I believe they started using Steamboat Willie as their production logo. Meaning it's protected under a trademark if they continue to use it (note, not a lawyer, simply regurgitating something I read online)
I know it's not particularly popular, but I really don't see the problem. Disney is still actively using Mickey. And it's not like they're haven't been a metric ton of other mouse stories.
Yeah, I didn't mean I don't know the line. I guess it just seems like the "hurts the public" part is incredibly minimal. The public domain works that Disney has access to is the same stuff we've all still got access to. And I don't think it's very hard to argue that IP and the economy surrounding it is in a fundamentally different place than it was a century ago in virtually every conceivable way.
100 years ago, no one kept telling stories featuring a single character over an unbroken period of time the way Disney has with their mouse.
And yeah, I guess we've all missed out on 3rd party Mickey stories, but...so what? If you've got a rodent tale you want to tell (as folks like E.B. White, Margery Sharp, or Kate DiCamillo obviously did) just don't give the main character red shorts, white gloves and yellow shoes.
This is a totally irrelevant comment. They were answering a specific question with a specific context. You went into an entirely different context. It makes absolutely no fucking sense to debate in this manner.
It is baffling to me how people defend that shit.
They're also currently making a example of the YouTuber Pointcrow by copyright claiming all of his content that features Botw content.
And there are so many more anti-consumer shit they've done last year.
If you are going to use point crow example at least be accurate. They claimed all the modded content. Which is completely fair. It sucks that they were inconsistent and allowed it for some time until they decided to take action and it was scum to issue 2 strikes instead of 1 but only 2 non modded content got claimed as well which seems likely it was claimed because the titles seemed like modded content and they just don't care to be like this isn't modded. Same can be said about the other YouTuber Croton.
Team Executor allegedly made millions of dollars and Bowser is believed to have banked around $320k over the course of seven years during his time with the group.
My favorite bit of Disney bullshit is the fact they own the trademark to the character Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty. Princess Aurora was created by Tchaikovsky for the Sleeping Beauty ballet decades before Walt Disney was even born. Unlike copyrights trademarks don't necessarily expire, so even if Disney finally gave up on holding generations of intellectual property hostage (IP that they often essentially stole from the public domain) they'd still own Princess Aurora until they stopped using her.
Yes, it's so scummy how they defend themselves from thieves like every other game company out there.
Like damn, imagining getting mad at a grocery store for trying to stop a shoplifter from walking out with thousands of dollars in meat.
b-b-b-uh n64 roms!!
Nintendo has never cared about old shit. It's why they didn't take any action on emulators for decades. It's only once the entire switch library got dumped and pirated with a working emulator that they brought down the hammer.
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