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

  • Heavybell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    7 months ago

    We agree on updating IP laws, but I think they should be curtailed rather than extended. You should not have the monopoly on an idea your entire life. If you can’t milk a fortune from it in 50 years it wasn’t that good an idea, so everyone else should be free to build on and improve it after that point.

    And even if you absolutely kill it and your brand is still going strong decades later, that 50 years will cover anything new your did in that time. Plus it’s not like people wouldn’t know yours is the original even after the copyright expire; something entering public domain doesn’t make it legal to claim you invented it if you didn’t.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      216·
      7 months ago

      If you make something, it should be yours to disseminate as you wish. It’s silly to suggest otherwise. You literally created it.

      • A7thStone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        7 months ago

        No-one creates something from whole cloth. All ideas are based on things that came before them. Locking those ideas up indefinitely will stifle creativity and stagnate culture.

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          110·
          7 months ago

          Locking those ideas up indefinitely will stifle creativity and stagnate culture.

          How? I don’t see any evidence of this. Can you point some out?

          As mentioned elsewhere

          Like, Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time and is the exact same story as Fern Gully, retold in space.