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Re:Disney's Mickey Mouse enter public domain by verve_rat on Monday January 01, 2024 @08:10AM (#38831564)
The real interesting question is: what does this mean for our hobbit based tourism industry? What angle can someone take to make a buck now?

Special edition hand printed and bound in the Shire (aka Matamata)? Sell it to people coming off of the Hobbiton tour.

If you don't reference the Jackson movies, can you sell those tourists a One Ring or a Sting without paying for licensing?

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Re:Disney's Mickey Mouse enter public domain by VBprogrammer on Monday January 01, 2024 @08:36AM (#38831677)
That is indeed an interesting question. Presumably if you reimagined those things, without reference to the imagery in the movies, that would be completely legitimate right?
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