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Great that they were able to recover this game. Kind of crazy that it will be copyrighted for another hundred years or so (assuming it's an unpublished work fo

Great that they were able to recover this game. Kind of crazy that it will be copyrighted for another hundred years or so (assuming it's an unpublished work for hire), when the last copy was barely readable, and the owners probably don't even know they own it.

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VonGuard 11y ago
Welcome to copyright law in this country. It's insane, and all to save Mickey Mouse from the public domain. Every time he comes up for copyright lapse, Congress kicks the copyright limit down the road another 20 years.
- inDigiNeous 11y ago
  Everybody should just make crazy-ass Mickey Mouse remixes and mashes so much that nobody can stop them. Now, how to get this viral? :)
  - throwaway1967 11y ago
    Step 1 - Introduce young people to "Mickey Mouse" Step 2 - Get people to care about this "newly acquainted with" character Was that the first golden age of animation? I know Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry was one golden age.
    - jawilson2 11y ago
      Man, my kids (2, 4,& 6) LOVE the new Mickey cartoons: http://mickey.disney.com/mickey-cartoons http://mickey.disney.com/mickey-cartoons So do I! It has gotten them into the old ones as well; they love the Donald Duck cartoons from the 40's.
    - egypturnash 11y ago
      Mickey was first drawn in 1928. Tom and Jerry started in 1940, as did Bugs. Until the 40s, animation was largely a crude curiosity; by the early 40s, there was a sufficient body of technique and skilled artists to start making some nice stuff. Color and sound helped a lot. (And I say that it was a crude curiosity despite being someone who absolutely loves the 30s output of the Fleischer studios.) However, Disney was cranking out cartoons all through the 40s and 50s, competing with the stuff from MGM and WB. Including Mickey shorts. Realistically, I feel like if you're going to assign a 'golden age' of animation it would be the 40s and 50s; there were three major studios cranking out shorts, Disney was starting to do features, everything was awesome. In the 60s the market started to change to cheap TV cartoons (a change lead in no small part by Bill Hannah and Joe Barbera, who directed a ton of lavish Tom & Jerry shorts at MGM, then completely changed the industry when they started cranking out TV stuff at their own studio). The 70 and 80s were generally a wasteland of low-budget TV stuff with a growing wave of quickly-dubbed Japanese stuff; the 90s saw a renaissance at the high end when Disney started having a string of feature hits, leading to multiple other movie studios opening feature animation studios. Most of which died horribly over the next decade, though this era also saw the beginning of the rise of 3D animation from a curiosity to a serious medium that eventually pretty much took over the feature scene. (I grew up devouring animation history and went into the industry around the time the 90s boom was hitting its peak; I am now quite far away from that scene.)
      - JohnBooty 11y ago
        From one animation fan to another, that's one of the best summaries I've ever read!
    - qbrass 11y ago
      Felix the cat.
bane 11y ago
The interesting effect that you see regarding almost any draconian and unreasonable law is that people simply ignore it and create more reasonable versions based on some kind of ethical philosophy they've concocted. e.g. abandonware, Persian rugs in the West, Cuban Cigars, Border Controls and Immigration Quotas

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VonGuard 11y ago

Welcome to copyright law in this country. It's insane, and all to save Mickey Mouse from the public domain. Every time he comes up for copyright lapse, Congress kicks the copyright limit down the road another 20 years.

inDigiNeous 11y ago
Everybody should just make crazy-ass Mickey Mouse remixes and mashes so much that nobody can stop them. Now, how to get this viral? :)
- throwaway1967 11y ago
  Step 1 - Introduce young people to "Mickey Mouse" Step 2 - Get people to care about this "newly acquainted with" character Was that the first golden age of animation? I know Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry was one golden age.
  - jawilson2 11y ago
    Man, my kids (2, 4,& 6) LOVE the new Mickey cartoons: http://mickey.disney.com/mickey-cartoons http://mickey.disney.com/mickey-cartoons So do I! It has gotten them into the old ones as well; they love the Donald Duck cartoons from the 40's.
  - egypturnash 11y ago
    Mickey was first drawn in 1928. Tom and Jerry started in 1940, as did Bugs. Until the 40s, animation was largely a crude curiosity; by the early 40s, there was a sufficient body of technique and skilled artists to start making some nice stuff. Color and sound helped a lot. (And I say that it was a crude curiosity despite being someone who absolutely loves the 30s output of the Fleischer studios.) However, Disney was cranking out cartoons all through the 40s and 50s, competing with the stuff from MGM and WB. Including Mickey shorts. Realistically, I feel like if you're going to assign a 'golden age' of animation it would be the 40s and 50s; there were three major studios cranking out shorts, Disney was starting to do features, everything was awesome. In the 60s the market started to change to cheap TV cartoons (a change lead in no small part by Bill Hannah and Joe Barbera, who directed a ton of lavish Tom & Jerry shorts at MGM, then completely changed the industry when they started cranking out TV stuff at their own studio). The 70 and 80s were generally a wasteland of low-budget TV stuff with a growing wave of quickly-dubbed Japanese stuff; the 90s saw a renaissance at the high end when Disney started having a string of feature hits, leading to multiple other movie studios opening feature animation studios. Most of which died horribly over the next decade, though this era also saw the beginning of the rise of 3D animation from a curiosity to a serious medium that eventually pretty much took over the feature scene. (I grew up devouring animation history and went into the industry around the time the 90s boom was hitting its peak; I am now quite far away from that scene.)
    - JohnBooty 11y ago
      From one animation fan to another, that's one of the best summaries I've ever read!
  - qbrass 11y ago
    Felix the cat.

bane 11y ago

The interesting effect that you see regarding almost any draconian and unreasonable law is that people simply ignore it and create more reasonable versions based on some kind of ethical philosophy they've concocted. e.g. abandonware, Persian rugs in the West, Cuban Cigars, Border Controls and Immigration Quotas