From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 10:28:42 MDT
> (Amara Graps <Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de>):
> Michael Wiik:
> >I think it likely that once Mickey Mouse is released into the public
> >domain
>
> Do you think that this is likely to happen? (I didn't hear anything
> about it, was something announced?)
>
> Disney protects their copyrights to-the-extreme. For example:
> Consultants are not permitted to write in their resume that they
> performed work for Disney, because it 'uses' (I don't remember the
> legal term) the Disney name.
Eldred v. Ashcroft has been filed in the U.S. Supreme court, and many
think it has a good chance of success. It is a constitutional
challenge to the Sonny Bono Disney Corporate Welfare Act (also known
as the Copyright Term Extension Act) that gave Mickey his extra time.
The latest news is at http://eldred.cc .
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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