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I mean, what if we looked at it in another way? What if we could use that $10 billion to pay teachers better in poor school districts around the country? How im
by thebiglebrewski 11y ago
I mean, what if we looked at it in another way? What if we could use that $10 billion to pay teachers better in poor school districts around the country? How impactful would that be just to not have the ability to make cartoons with one specific character? And people parody Mickey anyway and if it complies with parody law and isn't SUPER offensive, the Mouse would probably just send a cease and desist.
If corporations are already buying the government and avoiding taxes...why can't we put that money to the public good?
- jerf 11y agoA variety of solutions involving permitting extensive relicensing on some sort of exponential scale have been proposed, but it's all just pointless academic speculation as long as Disney can just keep buying extensions. It does seem to me that we could possibly reach a compromise with Disney in that respect; to be honest, I don't really care whether Mickey falls into the public domain anytime soon anymore. But it's stupid to hold the entire culture hostage for the vanishingly small percentage of things from the early 20th century that are still ongoing commercial concerns.