OT: Lapsed Copyright Cases (was RE: [dvd-discuss] Eldred v. Ashcroft Accepted forReviewbySCOTUS)

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Galt [mailto:galt@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 published work, MMIPC was copyrighted as an unpublished work)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/OpposingCopyrightExte
nsion/publicdomain/Vanpelt-s99.html


In a similar vein, there is the Bob Kolody case against
Coca Cola (which has apparently not mentioned the case in
their SEC filings for the past few years ...)

http://www.guerrillanews.com/cocakarma/synop.html


So far, the big companies seem to have all of the power in 
copyright cases, whether they lapsed in their renewal 
responsibilities or not.

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!