YouTube's systems are confused. Steamboat Willie entered public domain today (Mickey Mouse's first appearance). I uploaded it to my YouTube, and YouTube systems are still drunk from last night. Fun with copyright disputes!
But the most notable, in other words the Crown Jewel of this new set has to be Mickey Mouse 1.0 (aka Steamboat Willie) which was a nearly 90 year wait.
@GossiTheDog
🥥 New game coming to #Steam: #Infestation.
Chase rodents around a commercial building.
I view it as an homage to #MickeyMouse's Steamboat Willie coming out of copyright protection.
Maybe 2024 WILL be the year of computer gaming for me. 🥥
What do the Kingpin, Batgirl, the Herculoids, and King Louie of "The Jungle Book" have in common? They all should've entered public domain today under their original copyright terms... but didn't, thanks to retroactive extensions.
(Also, my obligatory "Mickey Mouse enters public domain today" comments.)
Here you go people, this is what Disney spent a squillion billion dollars trying to keep out of the public domain, but ultimately gave up. Now you can watch it on PeerTube:
Today Steamboat Willie the first cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse entered the public domain.
This means Disney has lost the Copyright to the earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse. The company still hold the copyright to all other versions and more importantly still retains the Mickey Mouse trademark.
@internetarchive I just learned this about the blatantly racist music used by #Disney in this first #MickeyMouse appearance (and apparently elsewhere through Disney's history):
Today isn't just 123123, but the last day that intellectual property and copyright is used to enslave the characters on willy's steamboat.
Yes, Mickey Mouse will be free tomorrow, finally. That's true for the @art works of Ub Iwerks, but it'll take another decade for the redesign of Fred Moore. However, we appreciate that Mickey can roam in the public domain to discover alternatives of capitalism and slave wages. From now on Mickey can stand for the people instead of incorporated private investor and plutocrat interests. You don't have to wait for long to see Mickey standing up for Palestine, since we are already on it. Follow us, so you won't miss it.
Last and least to mention, but important in the context... Walt Disney was so much more than just another CEO, and a horrible person. He was a opportunistic freemason, misogynist, racist and anti-semite who used Mickey Mouse to sell gas masks for kids.
Since he divided employees to rule hard over them and was an enemy of unions like the AFL, we can say that he was a capitalistic sociopath relying on the exploitation of artists, with a special interest in propaganda and conspiracy.
No need to mention the racist use of Jive in the Jungle Book, or that the amount of sexual context in Disney movies is more than questionable. While it's most likely that Walt was a pedophile, it's almost certain that Jeffrey Epstein watched Disney movies when he got another girl for a "massage", isn't it?
"Fuck them!" seems inappropriate here, but imho the French dealt way better with feudalism, frogs and snails than to literally "Eat the rich". Still hope that we, as the people, prefer fresh stuff over rotten corpses. So please stay healthy, hopeful, & honest — stay human. We wish you all* a happy new year! Namaste
with the necessary exception of naZionists and other (funda)mental fascists. Sorry, but no sorry or cookies for them.
They stole something from you. For decades, they stole it. That thing they stole? Your entire culture. For all of human history, works created in living memory entered the public domain every year. 40 years ago, that stopped.
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The main event, of course, is #MickeyMouse, who enters the public domain along with his first two short cartoon appearances: Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie. Though there's been a lot of FUD about trademark keeping Mickey out of the public domain, it's a lie. He's all yours (mostly):
For the #PublicDomain, time stopped in 1998, when the #SonnyBonoCopyrightAct froze copyright expirations for 20 years. In 2019, time started again, with a massive crop of works from 1923 returning to the public domain, free for all to use and adapt:
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But while there's been moderate excitement at the publicdomainification of "Yes, We Have No Bananas," AA Milne's "Now We Are Six," and Sherlock Holmes, the main event that everyone's anticipated arrives on January 1, 2024, when #MickeyMouse enters the public domain.
As we see Steamboat Willie enter the public domain, it’s important to remember Dan O’Neill and his original ragtag group of Air Pirates who literally brought The Mouse to his knees. Here’s a concise documentary on the subject:
Went to #Disneyland over the weekend and went on #RunawayRailway. The ride was absolutely adorable. The queue moved quickly, there was so much to see, and I had a blast!
My one complaint is that the ride was a bit jerky at times, but honestly that describes many rides at Disney nowadays...