When Oswald went to the public domain you didn't do shit.
When Mickey goes to the public domain you won't do shit.
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When Oswald went to the public domain you didn't do shit.
When Oswald went to the public domain you didn't do shit.
When Mickey goes to the public domain you won't do shit.
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And no, one week of shitposting art to your twitter account about owning him and making him le curse isn't doing shit
I see an animation student trying to work at DTVA is trying to pump up his ego until his mind feels inflated enough
Ignore the rest of the sentence, you will not do shit. Ever. You won’t even draw Mickey
Stop trying to control me you cringy frick lmao. Mickey Mouse has already been referenced in my work and you're not going to bait me into drawing copyrighted characters instead of my own. frick out of animation, pedophile.
No one gives a single shit about Oswald other than autists who played Epic Mickey and pester Disney to make a new Oswald series
When Popeye went public domain, Sony made an animated movie about him but then cancelled it because Emoji movie seemed much more promising.
>makes over 4x its budget
they were right
Popeye won't be public domain for another year
Yeah, and another year after that
And another year after that
This is kind of the problem with public domains
By the time they become PD, they are gonna be outside of cultural relevance with like 10 exceptional stuff
Which was the point, originally. The original creator only had so much time to profit off of a novel, song, or name. Once the copyright ran out, it was either duly forgotten, or well known enough to where it belonged to the public to do with whatever we wished. Millennials are probably the last generation to give a shit about Popeye, and now he's going to fade away into the annals of "Animated/Illustrated Characters who were once very popular" like Felix, Little Nemo, and the Katzenjammer Kids.
Reminder that Oswald has been public domain for decades and Disney paid for the "rights" to own him. Only this year was I seeing articles acknowledge that Oswald was already public domain.
Personally I'm waiting for Popeye.
They paid for the trademark for him which never expires, and like Mickey that’s how they’ll hold onto some rights over Oswald
That’s the whole thing with giving him blue pants as well as the “official Disney” version - they knew he kinda always was public domain and that only was a thing made up in 2006 so that element will be held onto until long after everyone here is dead in the early 2100s
No, he hadn't.
When Oswald was created, copyright lasted for 56 years (28 + another 28 extension). Universal definitely extended the copyright, because they were still having Oswald comics being made in the late 50s. The 1976 Copyright extension happened well before his original copyright would have been; which would have been 1983. At that point, Oswald would have gone PD in 2002. But then, the Sonny Bono act in 1998 froze the public domain entry of everything made after 1923 until 2019. Hence why it was only this year that Oswald officially entered PD.
Nobody cares about Oswald, people didn't care until Epic Mickey came out, even then Disney did jack shit with him.
But Mickey Mouse, he's widely recognised and a household name.
I think there will be even be bigger legal wienerblocking
Will they reprint Air Pirates Funnies?
No because not only are those comics made by someone else not too distant ago they have characters from later works
However if you follow old designs and don’t mention them by trademark name you can make new Air Pirates comics with Mickey, Minnie, Pete, Oswald and really and pre-29 characters and they can’t do shit
Honestly I still think you have a chance either way with parody laws.
>However if you follow old designs and don’t mention them by trademark name
Then what's the point?
It’s not that hard to say “Mick” or any other nickname instead of “Mickey Mouse” and to use the Steamboat design
If you can’t do something to that degree you were NGMI
NTA but for a lot of people it's the principle of the thing; if you can use the whole package, then what is the point of being PD (plus Mick might be close enough to trigger the trademark alert).
It's the reason why no one has used the Golden Age Blue Beetle much.
When copyright was formed it was in the form of novels which didn’t have physical appearances and later recordings
It never truly considered something consistent like animation characters being used over a century. And not all his designs/content will be PD but they will increasingly be unlocked until even his main current design is within a decade
The point is you can use the character in the first place
Someone in another thread on this reasoned that that's why Disney asked Fantagraphics to omit the Bombie the Zombie stories from Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.
In 2029, Donald Duck goes into public domain, so Disney has been pouring through EVERY single story he and the Duck cast have ever been in so that they can strike down any comic/cartoon that bares any resemblance to something that would still be under copyright. The first Carl Barks stories don't go PD until 2037 and Uncle Scrooge won't be PD until 2042; meaning that any story like any of the ones in the comics or both versions of Duck Tales are off limits. They jettisoned Bombie the Zombie and the witch doctor that made him because Disney's not going to court to defend either character.
>It's the reason why no one has used the Golden Age Blue Beetle much.
In your example, the main reason is because most people don't know about the Golden Age Blue Beetle, much less that he's public domain
DC primarily used the Silver Age Blue Beetles and Jaime.
What about Foxy, the original "Original Character Do Not Steal"?
Felix is over a hundred and no one did shit with him until the new comic.
Ok
You got me
I'm waiting for all the good Looney Tunes stuff to enter public domain, but I'll probably be seventy by then.
would be nice if someone actually made good content based on Steamboat Willie instead of explotive shlock. kinda sad when the first people to take advantage of it entering the public domain are as creatively bankrupt as Iger's Disney.
Air Pirates rule.
To ensure that Disney won't get mad, you have to make something that only an idiot would believe is a genuine Disney product.
We're literally getting an FPS game with not!Mickey as a hard-boiled detective.
>not!Mickey
Lame. Also we won't be seeing this for another year.
This is as close as people are going to get with Mickey's design for a while. They technically altered the designs to look closer to the real deal for the game play trailer. We've got two more years, so we might get even closer in design by the release date.
Cinemaphile assured me that there was no strings attached after new years. This is technically just a legally distinct parody character, which isn't bad just not different from what we had.
That's what I mean. By 2025, enough time will have passed to see if Disney tries to pull some bullshit with doing a 1:1 Mickey as he appeared in Plane Crazy, The Gaucho, and Steamboat Willie. If they don't, Mouse's lead character will probably just BE Mickey.
It's Disney; they will do something that crazy, especially with trademark enforcement.
Legally distinct parodies you can profit off is still a good catch.
They technically already did.
The whole idea is that "black and white Mickey, who is more silly and violent than Disney's Mickey Mouse" was how people would characterize/draw PD Mickey. Disney released a cartoon where that can ALSO be considered a legal variant of their own Mickey. They've locked in that description of him for 95 years.
I knew they were up to something with this short.
They're just going to follow the example set by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate
1. Have much larger pockets than the people attempting to cash in on characters you own the trademark to
2. Threaten to sue everyone who doesn't license your trademarks
3. Even if the new work isnt violating anything, keep them tied up in court for so long that the lawyer fees are more expensive than the license
I was just thinking of Burroughs.
I think people will do shit with Mickey out of spite and trolling. Oswald won't potentially offend anyone so there's less motivation for contrarians.
>I think people will do shit with Mickey out of spite and trolling.
Kind of late to that
South Park Mickey would legally be considered a parody of the the Disney corporation's business side itself and Disney suing them over it would prove the parody's point.
They made a horror movie about pooh bear. Oh and only certain designs of Mickey are gonna be usable. His slightly updated design? Still probably under protection