This iconic mouse is weeks away from being in the public domain
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Jan. 1, 2024, is the day when ‘Steamboat Willie’ enters the public domain

This iconic mouse is weeks away fromn being in the public domain Jan. 1, 2024, is the day when ‘Steamboat Willie’ enters the public domain

  • PottedPlant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    7 months ago

    The public must gain it’s share of the revenue for allowing a private company to use public domain IP exclusively.

    Hold a yearly auction to see who is granted rights to the property which is now the public’s.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      426·
      7 months ago

      The public must gain it’s share of the revenue for allowing a private company to use public domain IP exclusively.

      Pretty strongly disagree with the idea of a company’s product just becoming the public’s because a certain amount of time has passed.

      I cannot even conceive of what the argument for this could possibly be.

      • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        7 months ago

        Copyright was never meant to be used how it is today. It was specifically made to protect small creators from having big companies come in and rip them off. Companies were never meant to be the beneficiaries. But lot of lobbying plus corporations are people too bullshit changed that.

        Copyright is meant to last roughly the lifetime of the artist, but organizations can live forever. And then nothing ever goes in the public domain, a shared culture dissolves in to nothingness.

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          123·
          7 months ago

          Copyright is meant to last roughly the lifetime of the artist, but organizations can live forever.

          This is why I think it needs to be updated.

          And then nothing ever goes in the public domain, a shared culture dissolves in to nothingness.

          I don’t see how these two things relate to one another at all. We currently have a shared culture.

      • adrian783@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        7 months ago

        the argument is that the people, and the political system the people put in place enabled the company to create and benefit off its creations.

        “we live in a society” but unironically.

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          117·
          7 months ago

          enabled the company to create and benefit off its creations.

          And you want to… Stop that?

                • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  19·
                  7 months ago

                  How are the two at odds here? Disney has around a quarter million employees who currently benefit from copyrighted IPs.

                  • TomAwsm@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    41·
                    7 months ago

                    Please explain how Disney being the only ones able to use an IP causes their employees to get a higher salary. Executives do not count, as they get paid obscene amounts as it is anyway.

      • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 months ago

        Disney themselves benefited from the public domain since they didn’t invent the stories of Snow White, Cinderella, etc.

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          7 months ago

          They didn’t tell them as-written, either, so this is neither here nor there.

          • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            7 months ago

            You don’t have to remake steamboat willie frame-by-frame either.