Just to be clear, copyright has ceased to advance to newer works for one reason and one reason only: if copyright expiration went past 1930 or so, Mickey Mouse would become a public domain character just like Snow White or Cinderella or Aladdin or Paul Bunyan or Johnny Appleseed or Gilgamesh.
This is something that Disney will never allow - but for the first time ever, they've got some real opposition. Boy did they make the right angry. See, for the right, Disney wasn't a big evil corporation, it was childhood packaged in easy to digest movies and shorts, and they had nothing but warm fuzzy feelings for it. A pilgrimage to Disneyworld/land was the rite of passage for the entire middle class, once their children were the right age for it. My own parents took me. But with this culture war shit, the right feels betrayed and they're baying for blood. Something they're expert at.
If they can destroy Disney's stranglehold on copyright and advance the date at which works enter the public domain, they will have done some good for once. Yes yes, it is using evil means to accomplish good ends which is antihero or antivillain territory, I forget which. But anyway I want the same thing to happen to Mickey and Minnie as happened to the "Happy Birthday" song, which was wrongly copyrighted for decades and only recently forcibly taken out of the hands of rent-seekers.
Just to be clear, copyright has ceased to advance to newer works for one reason and one reason only: if copyright expiration went past 1930 or so, Mickey Mouse would become a public domain character just like Snow White or Cinderella or Aladdin or Paul Bunyan or Johnny Appleseed or Gilgamesh.
This is something that Disney will never allow - but for the first time ever, they've got some real opposition. Boy did they make the right angry. See, for the right, Disney wasn't a big evil corporation, it was childhood packaged in easy to digest movies and shorts, and they had nothing but warm fuzzy feelings for it. A pilgrimage to Disneyworld/land was the rite of passage for the entire middle class, once their children were the right age for it. My own parents took me. But with this culture war shit, the right feels betrayed and they're baying for blood. Something they're expert at.
If they can destroy Disney's stranglehold on copyright and advance the date at which works enter the public domain, they will have done some good for once. Yes yes, it is using evil means to accomplish good ends which is antihero or antivillain territory, I forget which. But anyway I want the same thing to happen to Mickey and Minnie as happened to the "Happy Birthday" song, which was wrongly copyrighted for decades and only recently forcibly taken out of the hands of rent-seekers.