Re: [dvd-discuss] Eldred v. Ashcroft Accepted forReviewbySCOTUS

[John Galt <galt(at)inconnu.isu.edu>]

Think of Disney.  I submit to you that Mickey Mouse's copyright expired 
when Roy and Walt failed to affix notice on the 1929 MMC materials, and 
again in 1956, when the "Mickey Mouse in Plane Crazy" copyright was not 
renewed (the soundie, "Plane Crazy" was separately copyrighted as a 
published work, MMIPC was copyrighted as an unpublished work)

Take a look at the VanPelt paper for details...

http://www.law.asu.edu/HomePages/Karjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/publicdomain/Vanpelt-s99.html


On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, John Zulauf wrote:

>
>Think of Disney -- all in a panic about losing the exclusive rights to
>Mickey Mouse.  This tends to indicate that they fear they have nothing
>of equal prestige with which to replace him.  Being given yet another 20
>year reprieve, there is nothing to motivate Disney to create yet another
>marquee character.  They can simply rest on there legally preserved
>laurels. 
>

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