• @[email protected]
      64•8 months ago

      They semi-recently made an entire show using the old character styles presumably to muddy the legal waters and allow them to do exactly that…so I would assume so.

      • @[email protected]English
        46•8 months ago

        They also have been using the steamboat Willie clip as part of their intro, presumably for the same reason.

        • @[email protected]English
          22•8 months ago

          Trademark doesn’t have an expiration if they’re still using it, so they would argue that you’re violating their trademark instead of their copyright.

  • baltakateiEnglish
    10•8 months ago

    Or authors could preëmptively declare their works to be in the public domain upon their death.

    I wish Creative Commons had a license like that. Something like CC PDD (Public-Domain-on-Death) which would activate upon the creator’s death, allowing them and publishers to freely monetize their work while they’re alive, but which would release the work into the public domain immediately after.

    It might even incentivize music and book publishers to get their artists health insurance. 😃