Copyright and the Mouse

[robkelk]

Oh yeah, I meant to drop a post on the board that all the Sherlock Holmes stuff is now public domain. Thanks for the link!

Also, I'll note that a year from now, Steamboat Willie is due to go into the public domain, too. In the past, whenever Steamboat Willie has even got a whiff of the public domain Disney has pulled out all the stops and gotten extensions of copyright duration rammed through Congress. It will be interesting to see if they do it again this year.

But that's a topic for another thread, in a different section of the board.

Well, that all depends on whether Congress can be distracted from messing with copyright for a year. And with a split Congress (GOP House, Dem Senate), keeping them distracted should be easier than usual.

Unless the Mouse throws a lot of money at a lot of people. Which they can.