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criitz, in What's it called when a title has "or" in it followed by a different title?

My favorite of these were the old Rocky And Bullwinkle cartoon

Blamemeta, in Court documents naming Epstein associates are to be made public this week? Who do you think will come out the worst?

I think its going to be censored, names are going to be scrubbed. I doubt its going to be the full list.

All the list is, is a list of whoever pissed off the government and went to the Island.

gibmiser, in Mickey Mouse is now public domain (Steamboat Willie specifically). What do you think we will see this year?

Steamboat Willy in “Steamboat Willy Recites Racist Quotes from Walt Disney”

Squizzy,

I hope so 🙏🙏🙏

creditCrazy,
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Who knew twitters username on Lemmy was gibmiser

psion1369, in Mickey Mouse is now public domain (Steamboat Willie specifically). What do you think we will see this year?

I forsee a Trademark problem that many didn’t expect, and Disney trying to defend their copyright by saying that they used the same version in a Mickey Mouse cartoon in 2023.

burliman,

Didn’t they make a Steamboat Willie Lego set in the last few years? That renew it?

TechyDad,
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Yes, they did. Before that, LEGO also released blind bag minifigures for Steamboat Willie and Minnie Mouse. I’m currently designing a LEGO MOC to display my figures with a small rendition of the Steamboat Willie boat. (I purchase my parts used from BrickLink to reduce costs.)

someguy3,

Well the copyright has expired, there’s no defending it afaik. People can use it even if Disney is using it afaik.

Trademark is more like logos. It will be interesting to see what they will try to defend under it.

fartsparkles, (edited )

In 2013 Walt Disney Animation Studios released a theatrical short called “Get a Horse!” which features 1920s era Mickey complete with archival audio of Walt as Mickey (and others who voiced him then) as well as renditions of other classic era Disney characters including Minnie, Pete, Horace, and Oswald. Heck, even the logo for WDAS in that sort is Mickey whistling in Steamboat Willie.

It’s a pretty decent short too, even if you know nothing about Disney. And it played before Frozen in the cinema, 4th highest-grossing animation of all time.

I remember at the time thinking whether they might be doing it to try and protect their rights. I’m no lawyer though.

TootSweet,

I foresaw the trademark thing and so have many others. But that doesn’t restrict as much as the recently-expired copyright does. Mostly the continuing trademark means that one can’t use the Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse in a way that misleads people that your own work is by Disney.

About the thing about Disney claiming that because they used Steamboat Willie Mickey in more recent woks they can still claim copyright protections on elements of Mickey Mouse that were a thing in Steamboat Willie, I really don’t think copyright works like that.

All that said, Disney has a rabid legal team and lots of experience at lobbying congress. Who knows what they’re capable of. It’s possible they’d try to pull some major fast one and make copyright and/or trademark work differently than they do today.

unrelatedkeg,

I foresaw the trademark thing About the thing about Disney claiming that because they used Steamboat Willie Mickey in more recent woks they can still claim copyright protections on elements of Mickey Mouse that were a thing in Steamboat Willie, I really don’t think copyright works like that.

Mickey in Steamboat Willie just looks… odd.

The ‘normal’ Mickey is still under copyright so not a lot was gained through Steambiat Willie losing copyright protection.

TootSweet,

Sure it would be nice if we coud use more modern elements of Mickey. But I don’t agree that this isn’t a big deal.

Before 2019, one couldn’t have blamed us for expecting nothing to ever pass into the public domain again. Steamboat Willie would have passed into the public domain in 1955 had 13 distinct acts of Congress (prompted by lobbiests from, among others, Disney) between the years 1976 and 1998 not extended copyright each time Steamboat Willie came close to entering the public domain. The last one in 1998, the “Sonny Bono” Copyright Term Extension Act was called by its detractors at the time the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act.” Basically Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie are probably the most emblematic works in any conversation of copyright run amok. So, if nothing else, the copyright expiring on Steamboat Willie is a hugely symbolic occurrence.

But also, it’s not as if people aren’t using Mickey in works already. I’ve seen several web comics just here on Lemmy. And there’s a video game in the works.

I’d love to see WB do something – anything – with the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse.

And finally, does Steamboat Willie Mickey really look that different from more modern Mickey renditions? The eyes are probably the biggest difference. But also realize that now that Steamboat Willie (and at least one other early Mickey Mouse animation) is in the public domain, there’s room for other modern-looking reimaginings of Mickey Mouse that might differ from the modern Disney Mickey Mouse.

banneryear1868, (edited ) in What's your favorite instrument that really gets through to you?

As a musician the Monome Norns raspberry pi shield and lines community has been inspiring me a lot lately. It’s a FOSS “sound computer” that can take on hundreds of uses.

some_guy, in Mickey Mouse is now public domain (Steamboat Willie specifically). What do you think we will see this year?

John Oliver will lean into it.

empireOfLove2, (edited ) in Thoughts on reddit reposter bots?
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I completely blocked lemmit.online using the handy dandy instance block feature because i just do not give a fuck about Reddit and none of the reposted content is even good.

it fills up my subscribed/all page with so much spam that I can no longer see any of the naturally generated lemmy user content, there is zero activity on any post, and nobody on reddit will see anything if I comment.

Nikki, in What's something you'd like to leave behind in the old year and not carry into the new year?
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my old gender and name

Sasha,

Big same, and I’ve finally started doing it socially 😊

Nikki,
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thats lovely to hear sasha :3

Squizzy,

Well you’re Nikki to me, hope that helps

Nikki,
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<3

Sim, in What's your favorite instrument that really gets through to you?

Uilleann Pipes

As heard on Bryan Adams, When You Love Someone.

sentient_loom, in Court documents naming Epstein associates are to be made public this week? Who do you think will come out the worst?
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I bet it’s heavily redacted. Somehow the big names will avoid being discovered.

ShepherdPie,

That’s my theory for why they’ve waited so long to release it.

Jonnsy, in What movie or book had the biggest impact on you this year?

Planet of exile by Ursula K. Le Guin

llamapocalypse,

I love the Hainish cycle, such beautiful writing and characters.

oDDmON, in Mickey Mouse is now public domain (Steamboat Willie specifically). What do you think we will see this year?

Hallelujah!! Maybe now we’ll finally see the conclusion to Air Pirates!

Cyberflunk, in Court documents naming Epstein associates are to be made public this week? Who do you think will come out the worst?
  • releases 4 names of people who are already dead *
rezz, in What's your favorite instrument that really gets through to you?

Ronroco!

sentient_loom, (edited ) in What's it called when a title has "or" in it followed by a different title?
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It’s called an “alternate title.” It’s different from a subtitle, which is a separate object. The alternate title is part of the normal title.

You asked what it was called but you were already calling it what it was called.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_(titling)

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