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You are correct, my mistake, 50 years beyond death. Corporations get 75 and will most certainly keep getting extensions, can you imagine Disney ever becoming p

• empthought 12y ago
  The most important pieces of their intellectual property are the trademarked characters, and trademarks never expire; they could probably allow the earliest works to fall under public domain and still maintain a large degree of control. There are a little over a dozen influential Superman cartoons[1] from the 1940s that are public domain. That's the kind of thing that would be public domain -- it couldn't be a Mickey merchandising free-for-all or anything. That being said, they certainly won't give up copyright protection unless they are forced. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1940s_cartoons) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1940s_cartoons)
  • ck2 12y ago
    Yes but you could make non-parody copies of disney stories without disney characters if the copyright expired as normal.