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

  • emptyother@programming.devEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    I find it insane that tvshows regularly show people watching 70+ year old tvshows. Nobody does that in real life. Doesn’t feel authentic.

    I find it insane that we’ve reused characters in stories for thousands of years, but just a century ago it suddenly became illegal until almost every character was old enough to be forgotten and culturally irrelevant.

    Fan fiction of relatively new IPs should be sellable, imho, without having to beg a corporation for permission. Its stuff we’ve grown up on. Disney and others are literally holding our culture hostage and dictates terms.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      210·
      11 months ago

      Fan fiction being sellable would require significant changes to copyright. It seems like you’re agreeing with me?

      Idk what you mean by Disney “holding our culture hostage” - that seems weirdly hyperbolic.

      • emptyother@programming.devEnglish
        10·
        11 months ago

        That we’ve retold and improved stories for the most of human existence, suddenly we don’t. Thats what I mean with holding culture hostage.

        I agree there should be some protections for artists, but not a hundred years. It should be close enough that the media is still relevant to the generation that it was presented to. Yeah, it would take drastic changes, but we got ourselves into this, we should be able to turn it back.

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          11 months ago

          That we’ve retold and improved stories for the most of human existence, suddenly we don’t.

          In what way is this not happening?

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

          • emptyother@programming.devEnglish
            6·
            11 months ago

            If your idea of retelling and improving upon a story is to carefully create a similar-ish general plotline in a different setting that doesn’t overlap enough to be sued by the previous author, for “retelling and improving”… You miss out.

            How crazy it is that creators have to go out of their way to not name something that looks and act like a lightsaber, a lightsaber. For a century! Everyone knows what a lightsaber is. It is part of our culture now. But we cant re-use them as is in any creative work (except for parodies) without begging Disney to pay for the privilege to use it if we are well-known enough. Its silly.

            • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
              12·
              11 months ago

              I feel.like you keep bringing up stifling creativity being a reason to not enforce copyright, but then you suggest that there is simply no room for creativity outside of established universes.

              This really doesn’t make any sense to me. I don’t see how anyone benefits by a glut of terrible Star Wars fanfiction being published, throwing the entire canon into disarray, and fundamentally changing what the material is about.