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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 66 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Hey, what's that middle door? I don't think Trogdor is becoming public domain anytime soon

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[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 26 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The public is my domain to burninate! 🔥

[–] Brownandoffended@lemm.ee 10 points 19 hours ago
[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 23 points 19 hours ago

Superman methinks

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] movies@lemmy.world 69 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The glove joke is that only Steamboat Willie is in the public domain. Wearing the gloves makes him Mickey Mouse, which is why he should absolutely not wear them as his copyright hasn’t expired.

The other doors look like Donald Duck, Superman, and I guess James Bond? I assume their copyright expirations are coming soon—in that order.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 25 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Similar to Micky not wearing gloves, Superman wouldn't be able to fly, be vulnerable to kryptonite, wouldn't have heat vision, freeze breath, or the fortress of solitude. Pretty much all the iconic villains would be off limits too.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yup, not at first. Mickey's gloves are actually a great example as they come into public domain this year as the first film where he wears those comes up next. (IIRC, INAL, don't go violating copyright law based on a comment on the interwebs.)

[–] moody@lemmings.world 19 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

don’t go violating copyright law based on a comment on the interwebs

Who's gonna stop me?

[–] ivanovsky@lemm.ee 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Mickey Mouse himself. I heard he's like a ruthless mafia boss.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago

Nooooooo!!!! My comment was strictly meant for entertainment! This was not legal advice!

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago

Aaaahhhhhh thanks. Yes I totally forgot that Steamboat Willie was PD now, and about wearing the gloves. Oh well!

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I don't really either. Mickey mouse is now PD, and I assume the other guy (no idea who he is) is too? And daffy duck, someone else and James bond will also become PD soon. Mickey with gloves is still copyrighted, so he can't wear the gloves.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The other guy is the main character of the artist’s comic. He’s just visiting the land of public domain.

Or he is directly publishing his comics into the PD

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if other hand based clothing items are ok. White gloves clearly aren't but what about different colored gloves? What about gauntlets? Inquiring minds want to know how far we can push this before legally we're in the wrong.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Inquiring minds want to know how far we can push this before legally we’re in the wrong.

As long as it's parody like this comic, then you can do pretty much whatever you want. Like how Family Guy can reference 200 random things per episode. It's only becomes illegal when it's serious in nature, like fan made Star Trek stuff. Because it too closely resembles the actual show. If they could monetize stuff like that, they could theoretically become a Star Trek competitor.

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Copyright law only really holds major rights holders accountable to each other. It doesn't matter if you're 100% in the right, if you piss off a rights holder enough they will crush you.

See also CNN vs Canadian United Media.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Sehr geehrter Herr Noerdman,

gemäß des Übereinkommens zwischen dem Deutschen Reich und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika über den gegenseitigen Schutz der Urheberrechte vom 15. Januar 1892 erfahren US-amerikanische Werke die Inländerbehandlung in Deutschland. Folglich erlischt deren Urheberrecht nicht bereits 95 Jahre nach Erschaffung, sondern erst 70 Jahre nach Tod des am längsten lebenden Urhebers (§65 UrhG).

Da Ub Iwerks, zweiter Regisseur und Urheber von „Steamboat Willie“, am 7. Juli 1971 verstarb, erlischt das Urheberrecht für dieses Werk in Deutschland erst am 1. Januar 2042.

Bitte entfernen Sie diesen Beitrag somit umgehend, anderweitig können rechtliche Konsequenzen folgen.

GaLiGrü
Ihre The Walt Disney Company Germany GmbH

[–] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 12 hours ago
[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 5 points 18 hours ago

Maxh doch nicht die Arbeit der Anwälte von den Megacorps. Aber trotzdem interessant

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 14 hours ago

Hans, hol the Flammenwerfer!

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Put Steamboat Willie into Cuphead, cowards.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I was just at the store and walked by a display of flower seeds where I happened to notice one called "ferry-mouse" and I immediately thought of Steamboat Willie. Now I have the Baader-Meinhof cosmic algorithm showing me new content similar to what I was thinking about recently.

This is proof that life is just a simulation.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world -2 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

When Supes hits the public domain I'm inverting his character by making him MAGA. Fly the rot in everyone's faces.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You're more likely to be sued by the thousands of people that have beaten you to that particular punch at that point.

Amazon would probably be first in line, which is kinda weird if you think about it.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Could you be sued once its public domain? Maybe for the other elements if it was again copyrighted based on those. I get Invincible, but it would feel different with actual superman, and not the one where he landed in Russia.

[–] xtools@programming.dev 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

you just invented Homelander from "The Boys"

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Except Homelander is different. You gotta make America feel like America is doing this by actually using their mascot. Also, Homelander didnt do any of those things in the comics, he was framed by Black Noir.

[–] DadVolante@sh.itjust.works 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Evil Superman has been done to death and it's not interesting or edgy anymore.

It's just dumb.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah but it hasn't been done where superman is just deporting all these people using his super speed, taking medicines from the cabinets of single African mothers using his flight. I think it would be effective in showing the effects of csncelling USAID and everything else the administration is doing. Hell, do it in golden age comic style for extra points as trump wants to return to that age but not do anything those presidents did.

[–] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

So instead of Supply Side Jesus, it'll be Supply Side Superman?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah,paint the ridiculousness of their actions. Have supply side Jesus come in and thank him at the end just like the classics

It almost feels like we've come up with a goldmine of an idea for an artist lol.

[–] DadVolante@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

Red Son was pretty close.

Evil Superman is boring and done to death.

Evil Batman is much more suitable for the times