Some thought that Disney would push to get the rights extended again, but according to Andrew W. Torrance, the Paul E. In fact, at the moment it appears that the motion picture, recorded music, and publishing industries lack enthusiasm for further copyright term extension. Even without extending their copyright protection on the character, there are still ways Disney can protect Mickey from intellectual property poachers.
With Mickey, there could be some gray area when it comes to violating trademark law. For example, if someone were to make a Mickey Mouse doll, there may be some customer confusion as to whether the product is from Disney, or another creator who has access to the character through the public domain.
According to Torrance, consumer confusion is the standard in trademark law, and could be a tool Disney uses to protect its character. With a character as long-lasting as Mickey, changes are bound to happen. That means that only the original Steamboat Willie version of the character will enter the public domain. That character is missing some of the iconic characteristics associated with Mickey today. So if new creators want to repurpose the character, they will have to work around the restrictions that come with it.
Expect these legal questions to bring about court cases that could set new precedent in the trademark and copyright field of law. In the film, music, and publishing industries, intellectual property is king. Disney moved to Marceline, Missouri, from Chicago with his family in It is Marceline where Disney said he found the magic of his life. Malins met Disney for the first time when she was 8 years old, and knew the man for the last 10 years of his life before he died in He helped her get a job working at Disneyland one summer while she was in college.
Disney moved to Kansas City in , where he and his brother, Roy, started to put into practice their love for drawing. Walt said in a letter to the Kansas City Public Library that it was there where he checked out the first book he had read on animation, E. After Walt went bankrupt in , he packed his bags for a one way trip to Los Angeles, where he would become the entertainment mogul we remember him as today. Your email address will not be published.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This scene has been deleted for Mickey's 25th Anniversary theatrical release in User reviews 57 Review. Top review. Steamboat Willy was not the first cartoon to feature Mickey Mouse.
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Black and White. Related news. Many people—including me—expected another fight over copyright extension in But it never happened. Congress left the existing law in place, and so those copyrights expired on schedule this morning. And assuming Congress doesn't interfere, more works will fall into the public domain each January from now on.
On January 1, , we'll see the expiration of the copyright for Steamboat Willie —and with it Disney's claim to the film's star, Mickey Mouse. The copyrights to Superman, Batman, Disney's Snow White, and early Looney Tunes characters will all fall into the public domain between and The expiration of copyrights for characters like Mickey Mouse and Batman will raise tricky new legal questions.
After , Disney won't have any copyright protection for Mickey's original incarnation. But Disney will still own copyrights for later incarnations of the character—and it will also own Mickey-related trademarks.
James Grimmelmann, a copyright scholar at Cornell Law School, tells Ars that this is an uncharted area of law because licensing practices for modern characters are "so much more intensive and so much more comprehensive now" than in the s and s. Dennis Karjala was a law professor who helped lead the doomed resistance to the extension.
He passed away in , but when I interviewed him in , he told me that it was "basically the Gershwin family trust, grandchildren of Oscar Hammerstein, Disney, others of that ilk" who pushed for ever-longer copyright terms. Most copyrighted works become commercially worthless within a decade or two.
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