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Honestly I care less about Mickey and more about nearly everything else Disney has made where they took stories from the Public Domain, remixed them and then lo
by michaelbrave 5y ago
Honestly I care less about Mickey and more about nearly everything else Disney has made where they took stories from the Public Domain, remixed them and then lock them down and sue anyone else whose remixes are too close to theirs. There should be extra limitations for those things that have originally come from the public domain perhaps, or a block on extensions at least.
- hnlmorg 5y agoI agree it is immoral how they've done that but in fairness we are still free to use those public domain stories as well. We just cannot use characters in the same likeness as those created by Disney. Which would be fair if it wasn't for the problem that Disney have managed to become the default version for those stories and how aggressively they defend their IPs. I've often commented that Disney are hugely hypocritical pushing for lengthened copyright periods and buying up intellectual property when they've built their fortune off public domain works. But such comments are usually replied with "companies don't care about hypocrisy" or something equally trite.