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The "Steamboat Willie" debacle or: Why IP does us more harm than good (www.forbes.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by PropaGandalf@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello frens,

As a great opponent of any form of IP, I have been following the event of Disney's Steamboat Willie entering the public domain with great amusement. The incidents where creators have been falsely demonetized on youtube for rightfully using this film is further underpinned by Disney's decades-long shameless practices. The linked article sums it up quite well I think.

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[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

PNG exists because GIF was patented. The lack of gifs for so long was directly because of the royalty costs.

That's one of many examples where science and culture were stifled because of excessive IP laws.

[-] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago

That's a patent. Not copyright.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

-Reads title.

So, where does it say copyright again?

[-] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago

Oh I'm sorry, though the entire article being about copyright was enough.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

If I spend an entire article talking about ways that school dress codes fall afoul of cultural values because Scot sometimes wear kilts, am I not talking about dress codes?

Just because you can't extrapolate doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't.