Steamboat Willy in "Steamboat Willy Recites Racist Quotes from Walt Disney"
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I predict a complete overhaul of our trademark and copyright laws that will accommodate Disney's desires.
You know... Basically what they did last time.
Too late for copyright laws, it's in the public domain and can't go back afaik. Now trademark laws can be interesting.
Oh, they already managed to "fix" copyright retroactively once.
Actually SCOTUS ruled that extending the copyright pulls it out of public domain in Golan v Holder. Congress passed a law that put some literary and musical works back into copyright from the public domain. A case was brought by some educators and musicians that the removal of these works from the public domain infri get on their free speech, but the Court disagreed 6-2.
Doing that for Trademark law is why they didn't bother lobbying for longer copyright this time. They could protect their Mouse trademark without relying on Steamboat Willy like they did before.
Quite honestly: nothing. Some folks might deliberately use Steamboat Willie in some content because they can, and Disney will likely try and attack some of those people in court based on trademark law if applicable.
But I don't really see a lot of actual utility in the Steamboat Willie character, outside of Disney itself. Any use of it is ultimately just referring to the "I can do this now" aspect of having just entered public domain, which frankly isn't that interesting.
use Steamboat Willy in some content because they can
"Fuck you, Disney! Look what I can do now" *makes armpit fart noises*
Ha, I mean, yeah. What other reason would someone want Steamboat Willie?
I legit hope there is one for artistic purposes. I just think the majority will not be for artistic purposes.
If you look what happened with pooh I'm guessing we may see the same thing happen here. There will definitely be testing of the waters on what people can do
Saw ONE design of the character on Twitter that actually made for an interesting idea that could be expanded upon, there IS space for someone to do smth cool about it but I honestly don't think anyone will. Hey, Toontown Rewritten could model this Mickey and use it for something I guess.
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I forsee a Trademark problem that many didn't expect, and Disney trying to defend their copyright by saying that they used the same version in a Mickey Mouse cartoon in 2023.
I foresaw the trademark thing and so have many others. But that doesn't restrict as much as the recently-expired copyright does. Mostly the continuing trademark means that one can't use the Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse in a way that misleads people that your own work is by Disney.
About the thing about Disney claiming that because they used Steamboat Willie Mickey in more recent woks they can still claim copyright protections on elements of Mickey Mouse that were a thing in Steamboat Willie, I really don't think copyright works like that.
All that said, Disney has a rabid legal team and lots of experience at lobbying congress. Who knows what they're capable of. It's possible they'd try to pull some major fast one and make copyright and/or trademark work differently than they do today.
I foresaw the trademark thing About the thing about Disney claiming that because they used Steamboat Willie Mickey in more recent woks they can still claim copyright protections on elements of Mickey Mouse that were a thing in Steamboat Willie, I really don't think copyright works like that.
Mickey in Steamboat Willie just looks... odd.
The 'normal' Mickey is still under copyright so not a lot was gained through Steambiat Willie losing copyright protection.
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Didnโt they make a Steamboat Willie Lego set in the last few years? That renew it?
Yes, they did. Before that, LEGO also released blind bag minifigures for Steamboat Willie and Minnie Mouse. I'm currently designing a LEGO MOC to display my figures with a small rendition of the Steamboat Willie boat. (I purchase my parts used from BrickLink to reduce costs.)
Well the copyright has expired, there's no defending it afaik. People can use it even if Disney is using it afaik.
Trademark is more like logos. It will be interesting to see what they will try to defend under it.
Massive amounts of rule 34
Ahh. It was copyright keeping us safe from that.
Steamboat Willie's steamboat willy
Monetized rule 34 Mickey stuff.
A over hyped shitty horror games.
Mouse.exe gonna be wild
Just like the shitty horror movie for Pooh lol.
A veritable orgy of uninspired crap taking advantage of the fact that people want to feel subversive but don't actually want to subvert anything or say or do anything interesting, because all of those things are hard.
Basically the same thing as the Pooh-but-not-tigger comics you see posted on here that people pretend are funny.
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A lot of lobbying by Disney.
John Oliver will lean into it.
Smash Bros. DLC
I expect someone to train a video machine learning algo to produce any plot of any cartoon promptable in the featured style.
Then any of the above.
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Open inprivate browser
Go to newgrounds
Go to Art
In the top right, turn off Adult filter and turn on other age group filters
Open a few in new tabs
Leave ashamed
Eh, not that bad. Just a bunch of yiff and oversized tits.
Also you need an account to enable the A button which defeats the purpose of the VPN and incog tab.
You can still log in with a VPN on, but when you leave the incog then you'll automatically delete the cookie signing you back out. If you reject all cookies then you can't log in.
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Steamboat horror story
Minimal Tecno music videos
Steamboat dildies.
Mickey Mouse starring in Steamboat Willy's Death Boat Race 2000, Electric Boogaloo.
Vietnam war
[Fortunate son intensifies]
Dope af stuff Felix and Mickey, Noir Buddy Cop stuff? Excited.
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