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Copyright abusers are there as well I think. At least last time I wanted to watch Tom and Jerry with my youngest daughter it was gone. (Or maybe that was stil

Copyright abusers are there as well I think. At least last time I wanted to watch Tom and Jerry with my youngest daughter it was gone. (Or maybe that was still within copyright? I don't know.)

bryanrasmussen 3y ago
aside from whatever copyright Tom and Jerry falls under I believe they are also Trademarked.
- _0ffh 3y ago
  I thought trademarks were for the defense against knock-offs, not the public domain.
  - bryanrasmussen 3y ago
    probably paranoid - was just wondering if you could get hit for claiming to have legitimate Tom and Jerry videos for download if you didn't have the trademark for Tom and Jerry.
    - wongarsu 3y ago
      If they are legitimate Tom and Jerry videos that's not an issue. If you make your own videos and call them Tom and Jerry, that's a potential trademark violation. The idea of trademarks is to prevent customer confusion, and while there's some abuse and perverse incentives most trademark law makes sense through that lens. You are allowed to sell your used Ford F150 under the trademark Ford, because that's an accurate description. It doesn't stop being a Ford, pretty much no matter what you do to it. But if you build a car from scratch and claim it's a Ford F150 that's a trademark violation because you would be pretending that the vehicle was made by the Ford Motor Company, with their manufacturing standards, quality control etc.
      - skinkestek 3y ago
        Thanks for a really easy to understand explanation!
      - bryanrasmussen 3y ago
        yeah, I wasn't thinking straight - on the other hand your explanation does make me wonder now if Johnny Cash's One Piece At a Time Cadillac would have ran into trouble if he tried to sell it.
ta1243 3y ago
Copyright is pretty much perpetual. The very first Tom and Jerry was only 80 years ago, another 10-20 years before the ones released towards the end of the 1940s would be available You can get a lot of them on amazon.

Copyright abusers are there as well I think. At least last time I wanted to watch Tom and Jerry with my youngest daughter it was gone. (Or maybe that was still within copyright? I don't know.)

bryanrasmussen 3y ago

aside from whatever copyright Tom and Jerry falls under I believe they are also Trademarked.

_0ffh 3y ago
I thought trademarks were for the defense against knock-offs, not the public domain.
- bryanrasmussen 3y ago
  probably paranoid - was just wondering if you could get hit for claiming to have legitimate Tom and Jerry videos for download if you didn't have the trademark for Tom and Jerry.
  - wongarsu 3y ago
    If they are legitimate Tom and Jerry videos that's not an issue. If you make your own videos and call them Tom and Jerry, that's a potential trademark violation. The idea of trademarks is to prevent customer confusion, and while there's some abuse and perverse incentives most trademark law makes sense through that lens. You are allowed to sell your used Ford F150 under the trademark Ford, because that's an accurate description. It doesn't stop being a Ford, pretty much no matter what you do to it. But if you build a car from scratch and claim it's a Ford F150 that's a trademark violation because you would be pretending that the vehicle was made by the Ford Motor Company, with their manufacturing standards, quality control etc.
    - skinkestek 3y ago
      Thanks for a really easy to understand explanation!
    - bryanrasmussen 3y ago
      yeah, I wasn't thinking straight - on the other hand your explanation does make me wonder now if Johnny Cash's One Piece At a Time Cadillac would have ran into trouble if he tried to sell it.

ta1243 3y ago

Copyright is pretty much perpetual. The very first Tom and Jerry was only 80 years ago, another 10-20 years before the ones released towards the end of the 1940s would be available You can get a lot of them on amazon.