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The insane amount of time that copyright persists is almost surely due to Disney. Every time their copyright is about to expire, congress extends the duration.

The insane amount of time that copyright persists is almost surely due to Disney. Every time their copyright is about to expire, congress extends the duration. You can be pretty sure that the copyright duration will always be today’s date minus the date Disney first copyrighted something.

whamlastxmas 7y ago
I hate supporting Disney with annual trips to Disney World because of shit like this, but it means a lot to my family :(
- brokenmachine 7y ago
  I've been to Disney World exactly once and I plan to keep it that way. Not because it was bad per-se, it was an experience but I don't need to repeat that experience. With so many great and interesting places to visit in the world, why would you want to go over and over to a tacky manufactured landscape like that?
  - whamlastxmas 7y ago
    I guess tacky is subjective. It's largely fun because my family loves it so much and makes it fun. I love the attention to detail, the rides are fun, the food is good, the resorts are nice. It's all stress free and easy and everything goes right and there's very little planning needed. Meeting the cast members is silly and fun. Having a meal plan and everyone just getting to stuff their face is great. The downside of course is that it's all tremendously expensive. But more than anything I view it as quality time with family in a way that I generally otherwise never get to have (they live across the country). It's more about family time and doing what they love more than it is about anything Disney Also it helps I've traveled a lot to most everywhere I've ever had interest in traveling to. I'm not really sacrificing trips somewhere else in favor of Disney
    - brokenmachine 7y ago
      I didn't even know Disney did a meal plan... Not sure that makes it any more tempting to go back, however. :-)
sjs382 7y ago
I love linking this old Slashdot comment[0], as it's still a fair approximation: > In the USA Copyright lengths are very simple. Anything older than Mickey Mouse is public domain and everything else is still copyrighted. [0] https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1306857&cid=28736323 https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1306857&cid=2873632...
maxwell 7y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about "always". Disney Fatigue has already set in: https://fictionphile.com/disney-marvel-superhero-fatigue/ https://fictionphile.com/disney-marvel-superhero-fatigue/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/07/20/disney-remake-fatigue-lion-king-little-mermaid/1741525001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/07/... https://fortune.com/2019/07/20/live-action-disney-lion-king/ https://fortune.com/2019/07/20/live-action-disney-lion-king/ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/21/spider-man-out-of-marvel-cinematic-universe-after-disney-split-with-sony https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/21/spider-man-out-... https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/with-solo-has-star-wars-fatigue-set-in/561416/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/wi...
- rkuykendall-com 7y ago
  "Fatigue" is just a genre of article that is easy to write and gets clicks while whatever they're complaining about breaks a new box office record.
- skinnymuch 7y ago
  I went to a few links and they were ridiculous untrue articles. We need a bullshit meter for articles that purport to be legitimate. None of the three I clicked were. Disney with Fox (who will only have contributed 15% of their percentage or 4% overall) have a 40% box office revenue percent this year. That is absolutely insane. I’m not sure when the last a company had that much of the box office. But it hasn’t been done for a while. Lion King grossed $1.6B. $1B outside the US and $500M+ in the US/CA. Yet one of the articles was trying to use the movie as an example of Disney’s decline? I can’t come up with words to describe how silly that is. I personally do not like Disney controlling the media market so much and do not like most of what they put out. But I’m not going to straight up lie and say their dominance isn’t there.

whamlastxmas 7y ago

I hate supporting Disney with annual trips to Disney World because of shit like this, but it means a lot to my family :(

brokenmachine 7y ago
I've been to Disney World exactly once and I plan to keep it that way. Not because it was bad per-se, it was an experience but I don't need to repeat that experience. With so many great and interesting places to visit in the world, why would you want to go over and over to a tacky manufactured landscape like that?
- whamlastxmas 7y ago
  I guess tacky is subjective. It's largely fun because my family loves it so much and makes it fun. I love the attention to detail, the rides are fun, the food is good, the resorts are nice. It's all stress free and easy and everything goes right and there's very little planning needed. Meeting the cast members is silly and fun. Having a meal plan and everyone just getting to stuff their face is great. The downside of course is that it's all tremendously expensive. But more than anything I view it as quality time with family in a way that I generally otherwise never get to have (they live across the country). It's more about family time and doing what they love more than it is about anything Disney Also it helps I've traveled a lot to most everywhere I've ever had interest in traveling to. I'm not really sacrificing trips somewhere else in favor of Disney
  - brokenmachine 7y ago
    I didn't even know Disney did a meal plan... Not sure that makes it any more tempting to go back, however. :-)

sjs382 7y ago

I love linking this old Slashdot comment[0], as it's still a fair approximation: > In the USA Copyright lengths are very simple. Anything older than Mickey Mouse is public domain and everything else is still copyrighted. [0] https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1306857&cid=28736323 https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1306857&cid=2873632...

maxwell 7y ago

I wouldn't be so sure about "always". Disney Fatigue has already set in: https://fictionphile.com/disney-marvel-superhero-fatigue/ https://fictionphile.com/disney-marvel-superhero-fatigue/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/07/20/disney-remake-fatigue-lion-king-little-mermaid/1741525001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/07/... https://fortune.com/2019/07/20/live-action-disney-lion-king/ https://fortune.com/2019/07/20/live-action-disney-lion-king/ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/21/spider-man-out-of-marvel-cinematic-universe-after-disney-split-with-sony https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/21/spider-man-out-... https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/with-solo-has-star-wars-fatigue-set-in/561416/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/wi...

rkuykendall-com 7y ago
"Fatigue" is just a genre of article that is easy to write and gets clicks while whatever they're complaining about breaks a new box office record.
skinnymuch 7y ago
I went to a few links and they were ridiculous untrue articles. We need a bullshit meter for articles that purport to be legitimate. None of the three I clicked were. Disney with Fox (who will only have contributed 15% of their percentage or 4% overall) have a 40% box office revenue percent this year. That is absolutely insane. I’m not sure when the last a company had that much of the box office. But it hasn’t been done for a while. Lion King grossed $1.6B. $1B outside the US and $500M+ in the US/CA. Yet one of the articles was trying to use the movie as an example of Disney’s decline? I can’t come up with words to describe how silly that is. I personally do not like Disney controlling the media market so much and do not like most of what they put out. But I’m not going to straight up lie and say their dominance isn’t there.