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You're confusing copyright and trademark. If copyright was allowed to expire, people could freely share the earliest Disney movies, but they still couldn't infr
by jkn 14y ago
You're confusing copyright and trademark. If copyright was allowed to expire, people could freely share the earliest Disney movies, but they still couldn't infringe the Mickey Mouse trademark by printing t-shirts since the trademark doesn't expire.
- coderdude 14y agoYeah, you're right. I should have done a little reading first. From Wikipedia: "It is sometimes erroneously stated that the Mickey Mouse character is only copyrighted."[1] I could have avoided this one. :) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse#Legal_issues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse#Legal_issues