Hello frens,

As a great opponent of any form of IP, I have been following the event of Disney’s Steamboat Willie entering the public domain with great amusement. The incidents where creators have been falsely demonetized on youtube for rightfully using this film is further underpinned by Disney’s decades-long shameless practices. The linked article sums it up quite well I think.

      • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
        62·
        11 months ago

        You can get assault and battery charges on a corpse? Why wouldn’t they just go after murder 1 in that case?

        I’d call it a property crime, but my brain hasn’t been fully cooked quite yet.

  • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    11 months ago

    Title of this post is a bit misleading. You’re suggesting the article spells out how Disney’s, and other companies’, rabid protection of its IP is a Bad Thing, when it’s really more of a history and primer on what’s changed with Steamboat Willie entering PD.

    • PropaGandalf@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      25·
      11 months ago

      Thanks to the so-called “Mickey Mouse Protection Act” of 1998, Disney, along with other entertainment companies, permanently damaged the collective creative landscape by walling off the public domain.

      The great irony, of course, is that Disney built its library of animated classics by adapting European fairy tales that exist in the public domain. Despite Disney benefiting from the free use of old stories, the studio has never hesitated to take legal action to protect its most iconic character, several decades after Walt Disney created him.

      Over the decades, Disney’s brutal copyright take-downs have become the stuff of legend. The litigious studio famously forced daycare centers to remove murals featuring Mickey and Minnie; for Disney, copyright law even applies to a child’s tombstone.

      […] the mouse is symbolic of a decades-long battle over the public domain, which the public lost. Today, the battleground has shifted, as powerful corporations no longer view tight copyright protection as beneficial, thanks to the requirements of generative AI.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    11 months ago

    Wait why is an IP or copyright bad? If I, a nobody make a great character or film, you’re saying that should belong to everyone and I should get nothing out of it? Bullshit, why even bother then?

    • PropaGandalf@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      Yes, nobody is stopping you from doing everything you planned to do with your invention.
      In real life, IP does not benefit those it is supposed to protect, but those who can afford to sue everyone else into the ground.

    • drislands@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      I don’t think IP shouldn’t exist. I saw someone say studies show 7 years is the correct time limit before they go to public domain though.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Copyright law in the U.S. used to be 19 years with an option to renew after that 19 and was that way until the early 1970s. That should be more than long enough for any copyright to last.

  • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    11 months ago

    Wow, what a title. None of this is particularly harmful. I don’t think the human race has lost much having to wait to do Micky parodies.

    • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      We have lost much having to wait for meds patents or other useful technologies.

      And even in the entertainment industry we have probably lost so many masterpieces that could have been inspired by copyrighted material. Of course, that we will never know.

      • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        11 months ago

        Patent. Not copyright. What things of scientific value have been blocked or discovered via copyright law. That sounds like nonsense. This is all entertainment and I can’t think of a single case where copyright has affected cultural change.

        • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Both are based on the absurd concept of intellectual property. They are the same cancerous thing that is crippling technological and cultural advancement.

          Edit: Seeing your comment history in the piracy community, I don’t understand why you bother commenting. It’s pretty clear that you’re a corpo buttlicker. I’m sure there are communities where youd be better received.