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  10                 <title>Welcome out of prison, Mickey, hope you find some freedom!</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Mon, 1 Jan 2024 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2024-01-01-mikke-verk-i-det-fri.jpeg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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  16 &lt;p&gt;Today, the animation figure Mickey Mouse finally was released from
  17 the corporate copyright prison, as the 1928 movie
  18 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Willie&quot;&gt;Steamboat
  19 Willie&lt;/a&gt; entered the public domain in USA.  This movie was the first
  20 public appearance of Mickey Mouse.  Sadly the figure is still on
  21 probation, thanks to trademark laws and a the Disney corporations
  22 powerful pack of lawyers, as described in the 2017 article
  23 in &lt;a href=&quot;https://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-domain/&quot;&gt;&quot;How
  24 Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain&quot;&lt;/a&gt; from Priceonomics.  On the
  25 positive side, the primary driver for repeated extentions of the
  26 duration of copyright has been Disney thanks to Mickey Mouse and the
  27 2028 movie, and as it now in the public domain I hope it will cause
  28 less urge to extend the already unreasonable long copyright
  29 duration.&lt;/p&gt;
  30
  31 &lt;p&gt;The first book I published, the 2004 book &lt;a
  32 href=&quot;https://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;&quot;Free Culture&quot; by Lawrence Lessig&lt;/a&gt;,
  33 published 2015 in
  34 &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/publisher/#frikultur&quot;&gt;English,
  35 French and Norwegian Bokmål&lt;/a&gt;, touch on the story of Disney pushed
  36 for extending the copyright duration in USA.  It is a great book
  37 explaining problems with the current copyright regime and why we need
  38 Creative Commons movement, and I strongly recommend everyone to read
  39 it.&lt;/p&gt;
  40
  41 &lt;p&gt;This movie (with
  42 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019422/&quot;&gt;IMDB ID tt0019422&lt;/a&gt;)
  43 is now available from the Internet Archive.  Two copies have been
  44 uploaded so far, one uploaded
  45 &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie&quot;&gt;2015-11-04&lt;/a&gt;
  46 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/download/SteamboatWillie/SteamboatWillie_archive.torrent&quot;&gt;torrent&lt;/a&gt;)
  47 and the other
  48 &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/steamboat-willie-mickey&quot;&gt;2023-01-01&lt;/a&gt;
  49 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/download/steamboat-willie-mickey/steamboat-willie-mickey_archive.torrent&quot;&gt;torrent&lt;/a&gt;) - see
  50 &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_bittorrent_plugin_still_going_strong__new_upload_2_14_4.html&quot;&gt;VLC
  51 bittorrent plugin&lt;/a&gt; for streaming the video using the torrent link.
  52 I am very happy to see
  53 &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_16_000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html&quot;&gt;the
  54 number of public domain movies&lt;/a&gt; increasing.  I look forward to
  55 when those are the majority.  Perhaps it will reduce the urge of the
  56 copyright industry to control its customers.&lt;/p&gt;
  57
  58 &lt;p&gt;A more
  59 &lt;a href=&quot;https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2024/&quot;&gt;comprehensive
  60 list of works entering the public domain in 2024&lt;/a&gt; is available from
  61 the Public Domain Review.&lt;/p&gt;
  62
  63 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  64 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
  65 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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