{"id":59700,"date":"2024-01-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=2842811e126d8c20f8f31cfad24e0d88"},"modified":"2024-01-01T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T12:00:00","slug":"welcome-to-the-public-domain-mickey-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59700","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the public domain, Mickey Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24006670\/mickey-mouse-steamboat-willie-enters-copyright-public-domain-2024\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Linking this among the many similar articles I skimmed, because it's the most up-front about copyright being an exchange of _temporary_ exclusive rights in return for ensuring things remain permanently available to society, which has been subverted by \"lobbying\" (read:bribery) for decades.<\/div><figure>\n      <img alt=\"A screenshot of Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie from 1928.\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/eBbammHe5W3333HbhP42XmeibGE=\/0x12:720x492\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/73013853\/1920_51_107_720.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <figcaption>Just be careful not to let major elements from later designs slip in. | Disney<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n\n  <p>It&rsquo;s finally happened: after nearly a century, Mickey Mouse has slipped off Disney&rsquo;s copyright leash. The first versions of the iconic cartoon character, seen in <em>Steamboat Willie <\/em>and a silent version of <em>Plane Crazy<\/em>, enter the public domain in the US on January 1st, 2024. (An early version of Minnie Mouse is also fortunately included.) There&rsquo;s still a complicated mess of protections around Mickey, but today is a moment public domain advocates have awaited for decades &mdash; and there are plenty of other exciting new entries as well.<\/p>\n<p>Duke Law School&rsquo;s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, as usual, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.law.duke.edu\/cspd\/publicdomainday\/2024\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has a roundup of prominent works<\/a> whose copyright protections lapse in the US today. The list includes sound recordings from 1923 and works in...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24006670\/mickey-mouse-steamboat-willie-enters-copyright-public-domain-2024\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just be careful not to let major elements from later designs slip in. | Disn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59700\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}