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Re:Fair Use Is Not an Exception to Copyright, It’s Essential... by api on Thursday January 22, 2015 @12:03PM (#8930223)
Those extensions are known as the "Mickey Mouse protection act," since more or less their sole purpose is to ensure that Mickey never enters the public domain.
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Re:Fair Use Is Not an Exception to Copyright, It’s Essential... by spacemanmatt on Thursday January 22, 2015 @12:39PM (#8930446)
...inasmuch as Mickey is a proxy for Disney's (some others, but mostly Disney's) mindshare which copyright protections are about to expire. I really wish the original copyright law stipulated that for a given work, controlling law is what's on the books at the time it was printed.
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