Protect the mouse

[ciphergoth]

What's this a graph of?



The light blue line represents the years that copyright gives protection for.

The dark blue line is Mickey Mouse's age.

from Aaron Swartz's weblog

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

interestingly, Disney may end up shooting itself in the foot by bucking for longer copyright terms, as the Winnie The Pooh rights are still contested by A A Milne's heirs, and it falls within the new copyright terms.

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

(without reading the post-cut text)

It's a graph of the age of the oldest disney animation vs. extensions in the length of copyright laws.

*looks*
Close enough. :)
(mind you, the subject line did rather give it away)

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

On a side note, Disney have at least done us all the favour of buying the distribution rights to a bunch of Studio Ghibli films, allowing us poor westerners to buy Princess Mononoke et al. on DVD. It's a purely commercial venture on their part, of course, but if it means that I can get Miyazaki fims for a tenner (HMV sale!) then I'm happy. Let's just hope they actually get round to releasing the back catalogue...

[lovingboth]

US copyright laws? I'm guessing it's out of Euro copyright (70 years from creation, rather than Disney's death?)