as if 95 years (works prior to 1976) and life +75 years (works created after 1976) wasnt long enough, now 144 years is being considered.
mickey mouse is once again threatened with being moved to public domain status i guess.
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Just make the appropriate political campaign contributions and post-term job offers for your anti-copyright cause to outbid the ones from the media businesses. That’s how the world works.
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I think Mickey Mouse the character would probably be a trademark but I’m not sure what the implications are for a trademark that has it’s original works enter the public domain as anyone can reference the story/art of Mickey as being used for infringing the trademark (legally I presume).
Ultimately it’s probably pretty similar when someone relies on CR as the basis and substance of their a Trademarks.
I guess pictures can be copyrighted too, so the picture wouldn’t need the trademark, only the name I guess.
This is disgusting. More use of state violence to achieve social and political goals.