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So does Steamboat Willie enter the public domain in 3 years?
by tempest_ 6y ago
So does Steamboat Willie enter the public domain in 3 years?
- verisimilitude 6y agoI was hoping that would come up! No, probably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#Support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#S...
- toyg 6y agoI think this source, linked from that wikipedia page, is actually more directly enlightening: http://copyright.nova.edu/mickey-public-domain/ http://copyright.nova.edu/mickey-public-domain/
- dehrmann 6y agoDon't get too excited. No one really wants to watch Steamboat Willie, and if you want to use a Mickey Mouse character, it will need to look like Mickey circa 1928. Mickey Mouse is basically the Kardashians of cartoons. No one's really sure why he's famous any more, and he never really did anything that interesting do begin with.