Trademark isn't intended to be a backdoor to extend copyright law. Obviously someone calling for copyright expiration is calling for a sane interpretation (or

Trademark isn't intended to be a backdoor to extend copyright law. Obviously someone calling for copyright expiration is calling for a sane interpretation (or reinterpretation, if you will) of trademark law. Even under current law whether you can make a Micky Mouse cartoon probably has more to do with which judge your litigation is in front of than anything else.