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About time that Disney gave something back, given that many of Disney’s classic movies came from the public domain. Frozen, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio … all from the public domain.
Give something back… besides the tens of Billions of GDP they create each year?
So is that the price for letting companies have a lifetime one-way exemption from how copyright and public domain have worked back to the founding of the country?
Just because great-grandpa was a great musician or author doesn’t mean you should feel entitled to the profits off their work long after they are gone … not how it works …
So you agree with me…. You can make new content and products with expired trademarks just like Disney did…. And now someone else will rinse and repeat it.
Yes … Disney and others have been fighting the “someone else” part and got copyright extended not too long ago.
Have no issue with them making money off public domain works and the special sauce they add to them … issue is that they turn around and fight to prevent others do the same …
As explained below, they have that right for “limited times”. The last extension act was nonsense.
actually, it is how it works. And the same applies if great grandpa was a great businessman and made a vast fortune…the family gets to enjoy it for year.
If the Winnie the Pooh movie mentioned above is what happens when these protections are lifted, I’d be in favor of making them permanent.
Joe B. is concerned with someone making profit off their work. But apparently not someone making profit off the work of the creators of iconic images. Yes, Disney made money off certain folk tales. But really, when you think of the movies he describes, do you think about the folk tale, or the Disney characters and stories? I bet the latter, and that is what receives copyright protection. Tell the Grimm Brother fairy tales all you want, but people will still think of the Disney interpretation, an interpretation that is the one everyone remembers and cherishes. When you think of the genie in Aladin, don’t you think of Robin Williams?
Yes, you’re welcome to make money. Make all the money you want. But here’s what the Constitution says
“To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”
Note the phrase “limited times”.
You take from public domain, you build on it, you get to profit for a LIMITED amount of time, it goes back into the public domain where others can do the same. That is what Jefferson and Madison were after..
You’re telling me that 95 years after releasing Aladdin with Robin Williams, in 2087, Disney needs more money from that adaptation. Robin Williams’ kids will range in age from 95 to 87. I think they can plan ahead and save the money made off Dad and be just fine.