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Quoting the article : > When that expires, Steamboat Willie can be given away, sold, remixed, turned pornographic, or anything else. (Mickey himself doesn’t lo
by JeanMarcS 8y ago
Quoting the article :
> When that expires, Steamboat Willie can be given away, sold, remixed, turned pornographic, or anything else. (Mickey himself doesn’t lose protection as such, but his graphical appearance, his dialog, and any specific behavior in Steamboat Willie—his character traits—become likewise freely available. This was decided in a case involving Sherlock Holmes in 2014.)
And at the end :
> And in 2024, we might all ring in the new year whistling Steamboat Willie’s song.
- robin_reala 8y agoTalking of Sherlock, this has been problematic in the past but people have come up with inventive ways to get around it. For example, Maurice Leblanc wrote a set of stories about a “gentleman-thief” named Arsène Lupin[1] (you may have seen a Miyazaki film of the same name starring the character’s grandson). The last story in the first compilation co-starred Sherlock Holmes, much to Conan Doyle’s consternation, and he threatened legal action if it happened again. Leblanc’s cunning workaround was to title his next collection of Lupin stories Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes[2] :) [1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/maurice-leblanc/the-extraordinary-adventures-of-arsene-lupin-gentleman-burglar/george-morehead https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/maurice-leblanc/the-extrao... [2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/maurice-leblanc/arsene-lupin-versus-herlock-sholmes/george-morehead https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/maurice-leblanc/arsene-lup...