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

  • KISSmyOS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    11 months ago

    We badly need to update our IP laws.

    Yes, by abolishing IP as a concept entirely. You cannot own an idea after you published it, that’s insane.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I mean, IP isn’t all bad. I can’t start selling p*ss in a bottle and label it with Coca-Cola branding. I’d get sued into oblivion. In this particular case, that would be a good thing. It also means that if you find a rat in your coke, you can sue CocaCola. If there were no IP, everyone could make it and it would be almost impossible to know where it came from.

      There would also be no widely distributed film, TV, music, books, etc. Do you really want to live in a world where WattPad is the engine of literature?

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47·
      11 months ago

      I don’t feel that this would have the positive impact you seem to think it would - and I cannot even picture how you think this would be a positive.