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Until Disney goes out of business, I think that is just, yes.

• JoshTriplett 12y ago
  And yet many of Disney's most successful movies retell much older stories, only possible because those stories went into the public domain. Bit of hypocrisy there.
  • mjevans 12y ago
    Those characters and stories were not (substantially) created by Disney though. Everyone else /should/ be able to make those same stories in similar media. Disney /really/ needs to be more proactive about using their brand name's trademark within advertising as the consumer protection measure as that is the intended to function of trademarks. That, BTW, is what is stopping others from making a Disney(tm)'s Mickey Mouse(tm) in steamboat willy(c, expired); and not stopping others from making a more generic 'mouse piloting a steam boat' movie.
• deciplex 12y ago
  Whether it is 'just' or not, however you're defining that, it does not align with the way human culture works, and degrades cultural innovation resulting in fewer works of poorer quality. If cultural progress is one of the things you want to optimize for in copyright law, then this is bad policy.