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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 13:00:14 JST Alex Gleason

   • Nina Paley
   It's almost New Year, and in just a few hours Steamboat Willie will enter the public domain: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/disney-to-lose-copyright-of-early-version-of-mickey-mouse/ar-AA1mfxRH
   
   Steamboat Willie was originally going to enter PD in 2004, but Disney got passed the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" in 1998 to stop that from happening. They extended the length by 20 years, and it is now 20 years later, so Disney is finally forced to swallow what it chewed.
   
   To celebrate this momentous occasion, I present to you "Copying is Not Theft" by @nina :
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 13:27:49 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Nina Paley
     What they should do is make copyrights for natural persons longer than for corporations or assignees or works made for hire. Once the person who made the original work relinquishes it, any intrinsic value is lost.
     
     Once ownership is transferred, it should move closer to public domain, because the original owner has alienated it anyway.
     
     The original owner is not deprived of value under such a scheme, because they don't have to assign it or produce it in a corporate form or work for hire context.
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     Marakus (marakus@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 13:51:33 JST Marakus

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     • Nina Paley
     • Marakus
     @Humpleupagus @alex @nina Or "games workshop". They tried to copyright pauldrons. And tried to sue people for using term "space marine" despite not actually owning it. The logic was "we are using it, therefore WE OWN IT". This bullshit pretty much caused their retarded "Age of sigmar" which is basically assigning stupid copyrighted names to classic fantasy races, so no one steals them. Amazing names such as aElfs, which are totally different from regular elfs, because they have different name. And btw, sigmar is just Conan the Barbarian ripoff, but they 100% own him, because he has a different name.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 13:51:33 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Marakus
     You can't really copyright names. You trademark them, but that requires some evidence that the name has an independent meaning, i.e. that people recognize the name as referring to your product. So "Felix" and "Cat" would not be trademarkable, but "Felix the Cat" could be.
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     Marakus (marakus@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 13:51:34 JST Marakus

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     • Nina Paley
     @Humpleupagus @alex @nina Funny story, Conan the Barbarian copyright is expired, but whoever pretends to own it, sues everyone and demands everyone pay tithe for using name "Conan", even if its literally their name. Or that (((brittish))) company "sky" which sues everyone for using word sky in any names. Kikes feel above the law.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 13:53:30 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • DeadDrudge
     I love coke.
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     DeadDrudge (jeddrudge@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 13:53:31 JST DeadDrudge

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     • Nina Paley
     • Marakus
     There's "Coke" and there's "coke"...
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     The Forbidden Dreamer (forbiddendreamer@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 21:54:03 JST The Forbidden Dreamer

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     • Nina Paley
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     • DeadDrudge
     @Humpleupagus @JedDrudge @alex @nina @Marakus Happy new years
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 21:54:03 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Nina Paley
     • The Forbidden Dreamer
     • Marakus
     • DeadDrudge
     Happy New Year!