This iconic mouse is weeks away fromn being in the public domain Jan. 1, 2024, is the day when ‘Steamboat Willie’ enters the public domain

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The public must gain it’s share of the revenue for allowing a private company to use public domain IP exclusively.

Hold a yearly auction to see who is granted rights to the property which is now the public’s.

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The public must gain it’s share of the revenue for allowing a private company to use public domain IP exclusively.

Pretty strongly disagree with the idea of a company’s product just becoming the public’s because a certain amount of time has passed.

I cannot even conceive of what the argument for this could possibly be.

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Copyright was never meant to be used how it is today. It was specifically made to protect small creators from having big companies come in and rip them off. Companies were never meant to be the beneficiaries. But lot of lobbying plus corporations are people too bullshit changed that.

Copyright is meant to last roughly the lifetime of the artist, but organizations can live forever. And then nothing ever goes in the public domain, a shared culture dissolves in to nothingness.

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Copyright is meant to last roughly the lifetime of the artist, but organizations can live forever.

This is why I think it needs to be updated.

And then nothing ever goes in the public domain, a shared culture dissolves in to nothingness.

I don’t see how these two things relate to one another at all. We currently have a shared culture.

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the argument is that the people, and the political system the people put in place enabled the company to create and benefit off its creations.

“we live in a society” but unironically.

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enabled the company to create and benefit off its creations.

And you want to… Stop that?

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Disney themselves benefited from the public domain since they didn’t invent the stories of Snow White, Cinderella, etc.

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They didn’t tell them as-written, either, so this is neither here nor there.

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Literally how it’s worked forever, how do you think books and films become public domain? Blame the Romans.

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“this is the way it’s always been” is never an acceptable defense of anything

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